Rebble has published a new statement that walks back its most serious accusation against Core Devices and finally opens up the Pebble app store archive to the wider community. This comes after days of heated discussion following Rebble’s earlier post, where it claimed Core Devices was “stealing” years of Rebble’s work.
In the new blog post, the Rebble Foundation board concedes that its original write‑up was more inflammatory than it needed to be and says tensions from failed negotiations spilled into the public statement. The group now stresses that Pebble apps and watchfaces belong to their individual creators, and not to Rebble itself, directly addressing one of the biggest points of backlash from developers and Core Devices.
As part of that shift, Rebble is releasing a full archive of the Rebble App Store for anyone with a dev portal account to download, with plans to refresh the dump monthly.
The foundation encourages people to mirror, back up, and build on top of that archive, asking only for clear credit and a link back when it is used. This is effectively the open access to legacy Pebble content that many in the community, including Core’s Eric Migicovsky, had been pushing for during the dispute.
Crucially, Rebble also softens its stance on Migicovsky’s use of the app store API. After reviewing the code behind his tooling, the board now says it does not believe he was trying to replace or expropriate the store, and that it no longer views his actions as “stealing.” Rebble has updated the earlier post with this clarification and offers a direct apology for how long that correction took.
Migicovsky had already laid out Core’s side of the dispute in his own blog post, “Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward,” where he argued the original app store data should be freely archived and challenged Rebble’s claim that the store’s contents were “100%” its own. The latest Rebble statement effectively moves closer to that vision by committing to a regularly updated archive while still positioning Rebble as a key service provider for existing Pebble users.
For readers who missed the start of this saga, you can catch up on the original accusations against Core Devices in our earlier coverage here.
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