[jmcphers]

I'm surprised more hasn't been made of the difference in screen resolution between this device and other Pebbles (and even the "new" Pebble 2 Duo). Old watchfaces and apps are not going to render without black borders, and given the niche market and limited run of this new model, it doesn't seem likely to attract much in the way of developer attention, so a healthy marketplace of new faces/apps may not surface.

If I could design _my_ dream watch (to borrow Eric's phrase), I'd put a larger version of the black and white MIP display in Time 2's case -- not more pixels, just bigger and easier to read.

[daemonologist]

I think they're working with a very limited selection of off-the-shelf MIP displays. (The 2 Duo itself is using new old stock of a custom display manufactured for the Pebble 2.)

There is one bright spot, which is that I believe the new Time 2's higher resolution display matches the original Time 2 specification and therefore has been supported by the SDK for years already. There were only a handful of physical prototypes, so no users of course, but some developers probably did build support for it.

[infotainment]

You'd be surprised how many of the old devs are coming out of the woodwork to fix their old watchfaces and apps. It seems like a lot of people who were excited enough about Pebble in the past to develop apps seem to still be excited about it.

Plus, it's not particularly difficult to support the bigger screen size in the SDK.

[51Cards]

It doesn't really need to surface. This is PebbleOS, so all the faces developed for all of the previous models will also work here. There is already a huge library of faces and I see people still making new ones.