Peter Pan in the smartwatch industry

[mme_hardy]

 Pebble just announced that they'd been bought by Fitbit.  Fitbit is taking the software people and the intellectual property, firing everybody else, and shutting down manufacturing and warranty immediately.   This sort of thing happens in Silicon Valley.

What is unusual is the cheerful way Pebble chose to announce all this.   Note in particular this image:


We'll never deliver the products you Kickstarted, the products you bought are dead on your wrist, but hey, at least the engineers are having fun joking about it!

P.S.  Guy on the left:  get a fedora that fits.

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[castiron]

The only thing I've supported on Kickstarter is a book from a company that I'm familiar with and who've successfully fulfilled their obligations in previous Kickstarters. They're sending regular updates, and I'm confident that I will receive the book when they say I will.

There is also a reason why this is the only project I've ever supported on Kickstarter.

[mme_hardy]

My kids follow a lot of Webcomics whose bound paperbacks are put out through Kickstarter.