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I know people love their Pebble watches, and I met Eric a few years ago, but what are they bringing back that competes in todays market?

I admit, I have a Garmin watch, so I don't suffer the battery issues that other smartwatch users have. What am I missing?

everything, imo. It had the perfect balance of features.
I find smart watches extremely frustrating and antisocial. At least for someone who intersects with others who wear the internal devices.

My boss will stop mid sentence because his watch buzzed.

I can see some uses, a female friend will run or exercise with her apple watch because it's easier to carry around but still allows calls for safety reasons.

> ” I find smart watches extremely frustrating and antisocial.”

Well, it’s the people who are antisocial, not the Watch…

My Watch is 100% silent and does not have notifications / vibrations (i disabled them.);

The exceptions are some Health related notifications, and regional/national alarm apps. But those are very rare to push notifications ( < 1 per month.)

Kind of amazing that calling their product "Core 2 Duo" was considered their safe branding choice before this.
I was stunned by that as well, but it seemed to be proven this week that Intel has had their hands full lately with keeping the lights on.