Google Has Open-Source the Pebble Smartwatch OS – And a New Model is Coming

Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news: Google has open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it ran on (minus some vital proprietary bits like the Bluetooth stack), having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in 2021 (Fitbit bought Pebble for its IP in 2016). This means anyone—even you!—can use PebbleOS to use/build a smartwatch — albeit with a few hurdles in the way given Google had to (understandably) remove proprietary parts, like system fonts, Bluetooth stack, heart-rate sensor driver, etc, from the code. What made Google open source the Pebble OS
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