[abhorrence]

I think your points 1 and 2 are exactly spot on. And, assuming that both Rebble's and Eric's are being relatively forthright, that Eric is the one that is actually trying to come to an agreement that accomplishes that. Whereas Rebble is taking the position of "only we can be trusted".

And with all the people replying to the original Rebble post with "I'm canceling my preorder", I'm pretty worried that Rebble has created a self-fulfilling prophecy situation. :(

[girvo]

On the other hand when you have the person Eric quoted saying this like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1p0huk5/comment/npj...

It makes me incredibly suspicious of Eric's motivations for some of this, and makes me less inclined to trust him.

[micromacrofoot]

aren't they publicly accusing him of theft at this point though? trust is out once that happens