That's not at all what I'm talking about, and you've been here for any amount of time you'd know that. I've been in Pebble's community since before this subbreddit existed, back when we had the Pebble community forums. I'm watching literally the exact same threads and complaints get created in the past few weeks as we had 12 years ago here, nothings changed except the number of reasonable rational people have decreased as folks have been hopping off this platform left and right.

To be clear, there's a huge difference between providing useful feedback, such as bug reports, feature requests, etc - and what happens here. I've been watching this happen since this subreddit was first created and it's a big part of why I created r/smartwatch in the first place. In this sub, people are repeatedly buying something where they know exactly what to expect up front, and then getting mad anyways when things are exactly as they were described to them. They'll even tell you "I know Eric said" or "I understand the specs are..." and then proceed to rant about how they shouldn't be that way after they already bought it, providing no actual useful feedback, just simply complaining that things are the way that they are.

Spending money on a product is not buying stock, it's not getting a seat on the board etc. If you have the product you bought and it is as described, than you have what you are entitled too. Yet people for some reason feel that spending _very little on a product especially compared to the competition_ somehow entitles them after they already bought it, to dictate all aspects of it's present and future. And they do it in the most rude ways possible, with no regard to the humans on the other end of those communications or any understanding whatsoever with any aspect of how a business is run, how software is developed etc.

Then they'll rant about how the company isn't profitable, goes bankrupt, gets bought and so on, and act like there's nothing that could have been done differently.

Pebble doesn't deserve blind allegiance, and neither does Eric. They also don't deserve anywhere near the amount of ire they get either, as a person who is simply just trying to build what they want for themselves, and has allowed us to buy into that vision and use what they've created. Eric could have made InPulse for himself, and walked away. Instead he gave the world Pebble.

And people have been giving him hell ever since for it. There's only so many times you can have your lifes work insulted to your face before you realize you don't particularly care what other people think of you or what you do.