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I hope they open source Pebble OS, maybe even the assets that drive the Pebble store.
I'd like to know how this happened really. Pebbles were pretty decent and their successful campaigns definitely contributed to the rise of smart watches. But after having two hugely successful crowdfunding campaigns, how did they fail?
Why do you think they failed? Didn't FitBit just buy them?
FitBit did not acquire their $24 million in debt or any physical asserts. They offered jobs to 40% of the staff.
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I have an OG pebble steel and it does everything I currently want in a smartwatch. I don't expect it will stop working for some time, and I plan on using it as long as possible.
Has anybody managed to make a nice dissection of the device to see if it's possible to reimplement it ?
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Pebble+Time+Teardown/42382
EDIT: there's also this post on the tech specs on reddit[0]. This looks pretty re-implementable if you're a hardware engineer looking to do something fun. The right component mix seems to have been figured out already.
What else is around in this niche now? Are there other relatively cheap, simple smart watches with good battery life that I should be looking at instead?
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I have an OG pebble steel and it does everything I currently want in a smartwatch. I don't expect it will stop working for some time, and I plan on using it as long as possible.
Has anybody managed to make a nice dissection of the device to see if it's possible to reimplement it ?
Wow this is even worse than expected from the previous news articles... If they're winding down all support and warranties, PLEASE release as much of the watch operating system code as possible! I know some of the IP was sold, but if Fitbit won't be continuing support please help those of us who love our current watches keep them going!
That's Fitbit's call. Would be a great way to retain some product/brand loyalty among its supporters though!
If we rely on their cloud services for activity tracking and app downloads then it will be useless if FitBit doesn't maintain the platform.
I have to say I'm really disappointed and this is a huge blow to people that invest in startups offering hardware. If the company fails forget about the smart stuff you bought, it just won't work anymore.
We should look for ways to minimize the impact on backers. Sadly we'll see more of this in a future in which the products depend a lot on the company cloud services to operate.
But I thought Fitbit was exiting the wearable market?
> Warranty support is no longer available for Pebble watches. That's not very nice.
They could've said "reach out to Fitbit instead".
So it looks like Fitbit acquihired the team from Pebble. Here's hoping Fitbit releases a product like the Pebbles, as it was much more safe and less attention-consuming to check a text message on my watch while driving than bringing out my phone, or asking a passenger to do this. Are there any other things like it that we can migrate to, or will the world never see their like again?
> check a text message on my watch while drivin Please don't do this. Traffic fatalities--particularly those involving vulnerable road users have spiked in the last couple years. There is nothing you can communicate that is worth the grave risk to others that you pose.
That being said, the statistics don't support your claim that traffic fatalities have spiked. Through 2014 (the last year the IIHS published statistics) fatalities had either leveled off or continued their historical decline.
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...