Pebble's next step • Hacker News Board

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by Yhippa » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:33 PM UTC

alexholehouse wrote: post #79

One thought: FitBit's customer service with me has been nothing but exceptional from start to finish, and is the reason I have bought several for family members. I would hope that FitBit would recognize the loyalty they create based on this quality of service could be magnified by grandfathering Pebble's various services and by maintaining them, while helping Pebble users to transition at their convenience. This woul…

Fitbit only bought Pebble's software assets and brought over just under half their people.

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by toxican » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:33 PM UTC

I'm devastated. I remember being so excited when the first kickstarter happened, but I was broke and couldn't buy one. Then finally after years of waiting and following them with interest, my wife bought me a Pebble Time for our anniversary. That was 2 months ago and now the future of this amazing device on my arm is completely up in the air. And what is the alternative? Some over-priced, under-featured piece of garbage fitbit? No thanks.

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by 51Cards » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:34 PM UTC

My Pebble Time is brilliant... after an LG G, Moto 360, I settled on my Time being a perfect balance if functionality and usability. I was one of the first Time 2 backers and this really sucks to put it mildly. The Time 2 was going to fix my VERY few issues with the Time. In general they struck the perfect balance in a wearable for me and I was really excited about the future (Time 2, Google Assistant integration, etc). I rarely get truly sad about hardware announcements but this one is really disappointing.

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by denzil_correa » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:34 PM UTC

michaelsbradley wrote: post #80

alonsonic wrote: post #47

I can't believe this, just got a Pebble 2 a week ago and now they are literally saying it may not work in the future. 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 stu…

Caveat emptor.

I'm not sure if this even makes sense here.

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by mattmaroon » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:34 PM UTC

I know how heartbreaking that must be for the founders, but at least they're going out the classy way. I'm sure we'll hear from them again.

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by detaro » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:35 PM UTC

captainmuon wrote: post #64

I'm quite angry. This sucks so bad. I "ordered" a Time 2 via Kickstarter. I'm glad they are refunding me, but that makes me think... WTF, did they not produce any Time 2's? Or are they all going to the landfill? How long have they been knowing that they are going to be insolvent? This doesn't happen overnight! Was the last Kickstarter a gamble? Why does everybody have to aim for total market dominance to be successfu…

Did they aim for total market dominance? I haven't followed it to closely, but to me it didn't seem like they did any totally crazy expansions. Seems like they should have developed further models in smaller steps, but would people have bought enough of those then?

If they have 20 millions in debt, just increasing the price on their kickstarters slightly wouldn't have done it, so they obviously overdid something.

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by tezza » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:35 PM UTC

So do the existing hardware watches become collectors items or second draw fillers ?

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by sickbeard » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:35 PM UTC

What's the point of warranties and cloud services if you can just be like "oops, goodbye"? Can they be sued for this?

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by cableshaft » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:35 PM UTC

I have a Pebble 2. I charged it last night. I have the Pebble Android app and I can't seem to get the two connected today. Is that because of this? Is there something on the backend that's required for notifications/sending already downloaded stuff from the app? I figured it did it all via the app on the client side, except the store.

If I can't even connect anymore, that's pretty screwed up, and I'm angry. If it just worked as it had before, just without the Pebble store or something, I can live with that.

Please just be some minor glitch. I'm very happy with the device as it was yesterday.

Anyone else having this problem?

Re: Pebble's next step

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Post by yalogin » Wed, Dec 07, 2016, 3:35 PM UTC

I was looking at Pebble before but this shuts that down.

Coincidentally I noticed that the market for luxury watches has heated up ever since Apple Watch was released.