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Eric Migicovsky
Personal blog · ericmigi.comhardwarebusiness
Eric Migicovsky's personal blog at ericmigi.com covers hardware and business. Since 2025, 51 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Blog posts by Eric Migicovsky
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones6 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2025-03-20
- Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-03-18
- /blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-03-18
- /blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-01-27
- /blog/success-and-failure-at-pebble4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-01-27
- /blog/pebble-2-duo-is-in-mass-production3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-09
- July Pebble Update (it's called Pebble again)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-25
- (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-09
- How to help us build open source Pebble software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-06
- Two new PebbleOS watches2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-18
What Hacker News says?
Oh! Also: I'd be really interested for you to expand on "I think I’ve learned some valuable lessons[0]". The 2022 updates gave an interesting insight into how your perspective had changed in regard to your initial thoughts and I'm interested to know if another three years has lead to further perspective changes. I found Andrew Witte's remark of particular interest with regard to "...we allowed early success [...] to…
Comment linking /blog/success-and-failure-at-pebble
on “We're bringing Pebble back”Submitted Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones as a story · 1678 points
HN discussionThings worked out! We got acquired. Heads down on merging - https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
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on “We're bringing Pebble back”Submitted Two new PebbleOS watches as a story · 1658 points
HN discussionAww really glad to hear it! It is fast - but we've done this before (many times) and know what we're doing. I've been blogging about the experience too https://ericmigi.com/blog/february-shenzhen-trip-update
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on “Two new PebbleOS watches”Submitted Pebble Watch software is now open source as a story · 1241 points
HN discussionThis blog post [1] makes it seem like the cheaper model has a barometer and compass, but the more expensive one does not. Anyone know if that is true? 1: https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...
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on “Two new PebbleOS watches”Submitted Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward as a story · 468 points
HN discussionFor visibility (via comment by 1337shadow @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42848245 ): ---- > Instead, we took a more direct route - I asked friends at Google (which bought Fitbit, which had bought Pebble’s IP) if they could open source PebbleOS. They said yes! Over the last year, a team inside Google (including some amazing ex-Pebblers turned Googlers) has been working on this. And today is the day - the sour…
Comment linking /blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
on “Google open-sources the Pebble OS”Submitted How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip as a story · 312 points
HN discussionIsn’t it valuable to Google to keep potential competitors from getting expensive IP for free? “PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build, alongside our fantastic product and QA teams. Reproducing that for new hardware would take a long time.” [0] [0] https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
Comment linking /blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
on “Google open-sources the Pebble OS”Submitted (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore as a story · 275 points
HN discussion> Instead, we took a more direct route - I asked friends at Google (which bought Fitbit, which had bought Pebble’s IP) if they could open source PebbleOS. They said yes! Over the last year, a team inside Google (including some amazing ex-Pebblers turned Googlers) has been working on this. And today is the day - the source code for PebbleOS is now available at github.com/google/pebble (see their blog post). https://e…
Comment linking /blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
on “Google open-sources the Pebble OS”Submitted Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal as a story · 179 points
HN discussionEric has described in-depth what went wrong: https://ericmigi.com/blog/success-and-failure-at-pebble
Comment linking /blog/success-and-failure-at-pebble
on “Google open-sources the Pebble OS”Submitted How To Build A Smartwatch: Software as a story · 121 points
HN discussionThank you, Google. You didn't have to, but you did. We are all are extraordinarily grateful. I wrote a blog post about our plans to bring Pebble back, sustainably. https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back We got our original start on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3827868 ), it's a pleasure to be back. If you're interested in getting a new Pebble, check out https://rePebble.com
Comment linking /blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
on “Google open-sources the Pebble OS”Submitted How to help us build open source Pebble software as a story · 90 points
HN discussionFrom Eric’s previous blog post, he did not “cash out”: > I earned almost nothing from Pebble Tech Corp. I paid myself a $65,000 salary each year. I did not get any payout through the asset sale. Eric also made a pretty detailed writeup a few years ago about what drove the failure and acquisition of the original Pebble company: https://ericmigi.com/blog/success-and-failure-at-pebble
Comment linking /blog/success-and-failure-at-pebble
on “Pebble Watch software is now open source”Submitted July Pebble Update (it's called Pebble again) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionEric has made it clear that the Pebble 2 Duo was always going to be a limited run because it was made mostly of leftover components and there's no reasonable path towards making new copies of those components. > Pebble 2 Duo is sold out! We are not making more. https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-software...
Comment linking /blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-software-setting-expectations-and-roadmap
on “Pebble Watch software is now open source”Submitted The new Pebble app is live as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe watch is only listed as water resistant, not waterproof. I don't know if he's said anything specific about the Time 2, but for the 2 Duo (same target water resistance rating) he's written about the water resistance here: https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-2-duo-is-in-mass-production . He says you shouldn't take the watch swimming, shouldn't expose it to hot water like a shower (weakens the glue and eliminates the…
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on “Pebble Watch software is now open source”Submitted (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlso includes news about a new Appstore, which can probably be seen as a reaction to the stories from last week: We’ve created our own Pebble Appstore feed (appstore-api.repebble.com) and new Developer Dashboard. Our feed (fyi powered by 100% new software) is configured to back up an archive of all apps and faces to Archive.org (backup will gradually complete over the next week). Today, our feed only has a subset of…
Comment linking /blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source
on “Pebble Watch software is now open source”Submitted Gratitude and FAQ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLets just zoom into a single use case. The ability of the user to buy a 3rd Party watch that integrates with their phone: * Apple doesn't allow 3rd Party watches to send text messages. The Apple Watch is allowed to do so. * Apple doesn't allow 3rd Party to take actions on notifications. The Apple Watch is allowed to do so. * If you want to use the internet on your watch, you must: 1) install a 3rd party app, 2) keep…
Comment linking /blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones
on “Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10”Submitted How to help us build open source Pebble software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUpdate: Response from Eric. https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-rebble-and-a-path-forward
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on “Core Devices keeps stealing our work”Submitted Being a Canadian in America (Eric Migicovsky) as a story · 2 points
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