Does every pebble get the screen tear issue eventually?

Scumbag argument right there.

Scumbag reply right here?

This is a bad design. Aka: a design flaw.

There is a huge difference between a less than ideal design, and a design flaw.

Stuff breaks. It happens to any product. There is an accepted failure rate on any consumer product. These failures are almost always solvable in the original design, and they frequently aren't, usually due to cost.

I suppose you may no absolutely nothing about design, engineering, or manufacturing, but the bottom line is, every company intentionally cuts corners whenever they can on virtually all aspects of these processes. They have too. Making something as good as you can possibly make it, puts companies out of business daily. The average consumer doesn't demand products of quality. They want things they can buy cheaply, easily, and throw away when broken. That is the world in which we live now. If you sell a microwave for $500 and you can get one that does most of what that $500 microwave does, for $150 at Walmart - most people are going to buy the Walmart one - even if it's made in China, has about 5% DOA rate, and frequently breaks after 2 years - and has no parts available, requiring you to just throw it away and replace. People will say they don't like this, but yet they keep buying products like that microwave, voting with their wallets.

The original Pebble was designed, first and foremost, to be inexpensive. That was a huge part of it's allure, and their success. Selling the population on a new type of technology that most people wouldn't have ever considered (a smartwatch) is a lot easier when it's cheap. Yes, this required cutting corners in many aspects of the design, materials, manufacturing, etc. They had too, their kickstarter burden was record setting. And it worked. Not only did they deliver all those watches but they have been quite successful since.

The Pebble design works. It accomplished what they wanted. Most Pebbles are not affected by screen tearing. Unfortunately some are. That does not make it a design flaw. It's just not an ideal design, and one that could stand to be improved further, which they have been doing, in the last two years.

Pebble are fools if they don't improve the design in future models to eliminate the possibility of this problem. Although obviously they don't consider it a big enough issue to recall, its still an issue.

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