Rebble app store

“Legacy pebbles still work great with rebble.io.”

“Rebble forced their hands and the community is as good as dead.”

“It seems like Rebble (the board) really overplayed their hand.”

“the Rebble Foundation's response to this was totally immature and irrational”

“rebble jumped to some conclusions and felt robbed/cheated by what Eric was doing”

“I think they kept the community alive since Eric M cashed out and Fitbit shut it down.”

“Why bother Rebble if they haven't done anything as you imply.”

“Rebble took Pebble apps developed at no cost to the users, and then maintained them and added cost”

“This seems a little silly, no? rent seeking behavior for maintaining code they didn't write to begin with?”

“They scraped the apps and are now mad that someone else could do the same to them.”

“trying to extinguish any ability for Core to implement their own solution without paying them more”

“Rebble no longer represents any of the community, just a misguided and greedy board.”

“they seemed to be very good at maintaining status quo + many small benefits and just reliably serving that”

“Rebble can position it's store as a back catalogue of apps that existed on the original pebble, offered on an as-is basis.”

“there is really no future for the Rebble platform… without new hardware”

“Rebble kept the lights on for devices that would otherwise have been bricks”

“their stewardship of the app store and continuance of services is laudable”

“Rebble's moat is the content from pre 2018 that they are illegally redistributing.”

“Rebble picked up the pieces to keep things working.”

“They did good work in absence of anyone maintaining the product”

“Rebble built a business on top of scraped Pebble App Store data & open source code.”

“Rebble has updated a number of these apps to keep them supported.”

“there's some hypocrisy here, given their roots, and they don't really acknowledge that”

“They were effective only keeping the old devices on life support.”

“$200,000+ seems like an extravagant bill for hosting this data for 8 years with a web frontend and maybe 20,000 users.”

“Rebble took the original open-source Pebble work of thousands of independent developers, scraped it off the original store”

“should have been an immediate "Yes, that's incredible, lets make it work" from Rebble”

“Rebble is claiming the ownership of my app's binaries. All I can say is that they don't have it.”

“But they are clearly misguided. The goal should not be to have an ongoing revenue stream for Rebble.”

“It's actually offensive that Rebble is using other developers' data (that they originally scraped from Pebble) as a bargaining chip”

“It seems like an incredibly short-sighted fight against someone who (legally) owes them 0”

“Rebble have demonstrated great stewardship of the ecosystem”

“The value here is the community that has kept itself alive while maintaining and creating the resources”

“Their main contributions were writing a web app to clone the Pebble store and maintaining it for many years”

“Their main contributions were writing a web app to clone the Pebble store and maintaining it for many years, which we are all grateful for.”

“Core Devices has benefited and enourmous amount from Rebble's work”

“built a new API and storage layer, facilitated the publishing of new apps, and kept old apps updated”

“They cloned the Pebble app store originally, but the store has no value by itself.”

“They did good work when the original company failed its users.”

“Rebble will die without new hardware.”