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Apple's iWatch to come in late 2014
Metal = heavy. What I love about the Pebble is how light it is on my wrist.
[iOS] PebbGPS
why not putting everything together (Peapod, httpebble and Pebbgps) in the same ipa (because source code are available) ?
PebbleBarn.com:Watchface/Watchapp market has Launched!
Gavin Maxwell said:If there's a single person out there who honestly thinks that my clone is a REAL version of Pac-man, as you are suggesting, then I'll eat my Pebble and post the video on youtube. It's you who are seriously joking right? Get a life, and a clue whilst you're at it. Have you even read the text on PB?
It's probably pretty clear that it's not. But the screenshot on the site just shows the original characters and the official name. The description is pretty clear but people don't always read that part.
The false advertising comes into it due to the fact that you're using the official name and the characters in your screenshot. If you don't get why using those things to sell a cheap clone is wrong, I'm done with this discussion. You didn't get permission from the copyright holders to use those things so you can't. Pointing to the description doesn't really do much as you're still using things you didn't get the rights to.
Also, I'm done with PebbleBarn. There's a valid legal risk in this and I'm pointing this out. Nothing is being done about this. What keeps people from just downloading .pbw files and submitting those as their own apps? Are you going to tell the people who created the original apps to piss off as well?
PebbleBarn.com:Watchface/Watchapp market has Launched!
Please don't eat your Pebble in any case - it'll take you months to get a new one if you pre-order now, and there's still no simulator/emulator. I'm so afraid of mine getting damaged that I've contemplated ordering a spare. Your watch faces / games are good works, and I'd hate for you to have to stop for that long.
Now, if you've gotten a license/permission to use the Pac-Man name from Namco, that's a whole other issue - but I would've imagined that you would have indicated as such here and in the Pebble Barn description. Pac-Man is trademarked, and the Pac-Man game is copyrighted. Munchkin even had to stop selling entirely due to the findings that it was too similar, even though it made many visual and gameplay changes and there was no code sharing/copying -
The sale factor comes into the fact that you're profiting off of it, which means you then become a viable target for a lawsuit. If/when Namco plans on breaking into the Pebble market (or if they even think they might want to), they will send out C&D's to free and paid clones alike, but by attaching a monetary gain to it, you're painting a target on your (and Pebble Barns) back for them to actively pursue you rather than just shut you down and be done with it. Pac-Man for IOS sells for $4.99
I think, more specifically, people don't want Pebble Barn to fail due to getting dragged through real or imagined legal action over something that should be easily avoided.
PebbleBarn.com:Watchface/Watchapp market has Launched!
tgwaste said:3/7 does not == 'most'.
just sayin...
The point still stands that it may not be legal to charge for an unlicensed clone of Pac-man, Asteroids or Space Invaders. Especially if you are using those names to promote them. Many companies look the other way when indie devs clone their games, especially older games and for platforms that they themselves don't intend to support. However that isn't the same as condoning the clones, and if you start selling your clone under the name of the original title that is an easy recipe for a C&D.
PebbleBarn.com:Watchface/Watchapp market has Launched!
You're joking right? This has nothing to do with being cheap. This also has nothing to do with not wanting to pay money for a decent pac-man clone.
The problem is that you're selling a Pac-Man clone under the official Pac-Man name. I'm sure that there's a bunch of Pac-Man related stuff on ebay but not one of those is trying to pretend that it's the actual game.
I don't have any problems with premium watchapps. If that means that we get to see things that we wouldn't have seen because developers couldn't make money through other methods, I'm all for it. What I have a problem with is false advertising. You're selling a game called Pac-Man that isn't Pac-Man. If it isn't okay for that to happen on other platforms, why should Pebble be any different?
The reason that I don't have a problem with free things that do the same is because they're free, they're not tricking you into spending money that you wouldn't have if it was called Pill Gobbler.
Slow AppMessage
Hey all, I'm an engineer at Pebble. Thanks for raising these issues. There are two separate (known) bugs being discussed here, both with forthcoming fixes.
The latency you are experiencing with app messages is due to the watch's bluetooth sniff mode. In order to save energy on both the watch and phone, the bluetooth connection goes into a low power ("sniff" mode) whenever possible. Currently, the watch stays in sniff mode with a long sniff interval when third party apps are communicating. We'll have a fix for this in the next release of our firmware.
As of Pebble-Android v1.8.0, ACKs and NACKs are broadcast, but PebbleKit-Android is currently missing helper functions to register ACK/NACK BroadcastReceivers. This has been fixed and will be included in the next point release of PebbleKit.
Who wants a Pebble Watch Face Tutorial?
Hi all,
After using the Pebble SDK to create a good number of watch faces and a few watch apps, I've managed to obtain a position where I know enough about the process to write a tutorial to help others make a splash in making their own customisations to their watches. I have an initial plan written up for the first few instalments, and now I'd like help from the community to gauge the need for such a series of tutorials.
Here's the rough plan:
- Beginner's Primer to the C Language
- Applying the C Primer to the Watch Face SDK
- ADDITIONAL: Setting up a Ubuntu environment
- Writing Your First Watch Face!
- More Advanced Features and Concepts
Please let me know any other areas you'd like to know about in more detail and I'll do my best to write them up. I'm hoping to use a format that is accessible to a non-programmer to help grasp the concepts of C, especially for the first instalment. After that, the style will change up slightly to enable the reader to apply what they've learned without feeling too amateurish.
Thanks!
UPDATE: Here are the finished sections:
Anyone in the UK got one yet? [Mod edit: Yes, they have]
How many times a day would re-checking the Royal Mail tracking site be considered excessive? Must've done it at least 50 times since the confirmation from Singpost came through... If patience is a virtue, then I'm going to hell :-)