Core devices keep stealing our work
This is a post that we take no pleasure in writing. When we wrote about our agreement with Core Devices last month, we came into it believing that the collaboration between Core and Rebel would be the best decision for the Pebble community. Core will lead the development of the brand new watches, and we’ll be there to provide our Rebel Web services alongside them.
Unfortunately, our agreement is already falling apart. We hoped that by putting on a kind face, and publishing an optimistic-sounding blog post with Eric, we would be able to collaborate in a way that meets our responsibilities to you, our users. We knew none of us would be able to achieve everything we wanted, but we thought we had enough common ground that we could serve Pebble users together.
Ribble has been working to keep the Pebble experience alive since the beginning – maintaining the App Store, building new services like Bobby, and running frontline support for people who keep their Pebbles active the whole time. (The Pebble App Store that offers the core Now! is supported by Rebel!) But Eric and Core have recently demanded that, instead of working together, we need to give them all our work from the last decade so they can do whatever they want with it. And in Eric’s latest newsletter, he won’t tell you the truth about where the work that runs his business comes from. We wanted to collaborate with them to create something great together, but we’ve reached an impasse. So now, we’re asking you – our community – to decide what to do with the core.