The original Apple Watch lineup is officially obsolete

realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to Technology@beehaw.org – 54 points –

Yes, including the 18-karat gold model.

https://www.engadget.com/the-original-apple-watch-lineup-is-officially-obsolete-083825819.html

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Good riddance. I had a first gen watch, and it was awful. Trying to navigate apps would take minutes. And forget about trying to use Siri with it. Even gen 2 was night and day in terms of performance, but I think gen 3 was when it really became a viable product.

I still miss my Pebble though. Really, if Apple would let people make faces for the damned thing and create a rich face ecosystem, that would remedy like 90% of my issues with the watch. And just putting the time on a pic isn't an answer. I miss things like the old LCARS face I had on my Pebble that incorporated all the other data into it (time, date, battery, now playing, weather, etc.). They need to let us do that with custom faces.

100% agree. The first gen felt entirely rushed. Slow as molasses.

I love the Pebbles. I have a Pebble Time, just snagged a used Pebble Time Round 20mm from eBay so I'm looking forward to trying that out!

Your comment sent me digging. I had no idea that they could still function. I thought they were lost to time (lol), but apparently Google gave an update to the official app so the Rebble project could keep supporting all the functionality of the watch. Looks like it's Android only, though tbf Pebble always did have significantly more functionality on Android than iOS. But if it would work on iOS, I'd dig out my Pebble right now.

You can still use them with GadgetBridge if Rebble ever goes away too!

I think you can technically still use Pebble on iOS, but I'm not sure how. The previous owner of the watch has been using it with his iPhone 13.

Yeah apparently there's some weird side loading thing you can do, but you have to keep updating it once a week or it stops working.