I think the hardware is t there in A-series chips. But not positive.

Look, even Rebble's own blog post about the open sourcing says "a massive shout out to Eric Migicovsky for ensuring this happened". It is clear that he was the driving force that started the process inside Google that allowed it to suddenly happen after all these years.

Rebble did some work on the open source firmware in the four months between when Google opened it and Core Devices forked. It's a very small amount compared to the bulk of the whole firmware, which was originally developed by Eric's company, let's not forget. A few months of contributions don't give Rebble ownership of all that firmware code. It seems to me like Core Devices has contributed a whole lot more than Rebble did, especially for code that actually runs on their new devices rather than code for the old watches. And besides, Core Devices' firmware remains open source, and Rebble is supposed to be receiving payment from Core Devices for the use of the store[1]. There is no "stealing" here.

The narrative that Eric "sold out" the community is transparently ridiculous. His company failed. They ran out of money. It was a failure of business management, not ethics. And the narrative that "he can't even be bothered to give credit" is also transparently false. He credits Rebble all the time. In blog posts, on their website, on social media. And financially by paying them money to use their store.

[1] https://rebble.io/2025/10/09/rebbles-in-a-world-with-core.ht...

> But the thing that got me, in all honesty, was the brand. “Fujitsu laptop” sounds like colour in a William Gibson novel: “crawling into the avionics bay, Case took out a battered Fujitsu refurb, and stuck a JTAG port in the flight computer—”.

It's kind of hard to take this opinion seriously after that.

Finally! All these years everyone has been complaining about this or that missing feature or lingering bug in Firefox, or how Mozilla has been hostile to users and pulling stupid stunts which only waste money and alienate even their most passionate fans, but by far the number one grievance everyone had was how Firefox was missing a mascot. At last I can make my mother switch to Firefox. I’m messaging all my friends right now, this is exactly what Firefox needed. Mozilla is finally back on track, focusing on the right things. It gives me tremendous hope for the continued bright future of Firefox.

It's funny how Japanese contributors often go nuclear whenever things don't go their way instead of communicating etc. Bugs happen. this is tech. open communication is always the way to go before escalation. we see the same phenomenon in git, ruby etc etc etc.

Ironically, Japanese work culture encourages over-communication. It seems that open-source is considered a counter-culture that they want to escape japanese work culture from.

> The App Store doesn't do anything to product you in that sense. It's easy to circumvent...

Interesting, their marketing has customers believe otherwise, so I wouldn't have thought that as a noob in cybersecurity.

I've submitted an app to the iOS App Store in the past, and the process is tedious and doesn't seem superficial (unlike the Play Store process, which was completely autonomous at the time), so that's another reason why I wouldn't have thought it.