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billranton is offline billranton
2015-12-18 , 13:33
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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
It's puzzling that Pebble have, correctly I'd say, gone for a tight small OS (FreeRTOS) when the big guys are putting full linux and unix distros on their watches.
You'd think people liked charging their watches every day.

I think it shows a difference in approach. The big guys are trying to put small smartphones on people's wrists, because they can keep bloating them with the sort of gimmicks they use to sell everyone new phones every year or so. The guy who made pebble just wanted to be able to see what his text messages said when he was on his bike.
 

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