Pebble founder: interaction with apples as well as iPhones

Smartwatch pioneer pebbles face famous problems in interaction with iPhone for a new beginning. In the first generation of pebbles already, he learned how difficult it is to offer “great smartwatch experience” on iOS, said by pebble founder Eric Migikovski and it was worse in the last eight years. The pebble will provide a “good app” for iOS for two new models “Core 2 Duo” and “Core Time 2”, but it cannot fully provide the same task as Apple Watch is possible.

No real message for other smartwatch

For other smartwatches, it is impossible to send messages, Migikovski explained. The reactions to the coming messages cannot be applied – as long as the smartwatch is used with the iPhone. These restrictions also apply to watches from other manufacturers. In general, communication between the app on iOS and pebbleos devices is limited, a interaction with other iOS apps is unimaginable. Anyone who accidentally shuts down the pebble app, is also a connection with smartwatch and thus it has an internet connection at the same time.

Other apple restrictions Stops it according to MigicowskiFor example, integrate a small shop for marks from other providers in the app. In addition, there are restrictions that are quickly angry in everyday life: pebble watches do not know when the wearer is currently looking at his iPhone-and so vibrate on it when a message that has already been seen.

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Apple makes it “systematically almost impossible” to create a good experience for iPhone users. Apple refers to safety and data security, but he sees it very differently, emphasizing Migicovski. “It is clear that you use your market power to include customers in your ecosystem”. Eventually, it leads to low competition. Four of the ten pebble future customers have an iPhone, the founder writes that he will offer “drawn iOS app” accordingly, but it is essentially behind the Android version.

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Migicovsky recommends that iPhone users should complain about these restrictions on Apple. In the European Union, he wants to use an opportunity to request an interoperability for Apple. On Thursday, the European Union Commission already determined the new rules that forces the group to open the Apple Watch API for third-party providers in the coming months, but only within the European Union.

(Lbe)