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.

Comments

[kore]

Yeah, I've supported an artist via Kickstarter who does the Inktober thing every year so far, and that means all the art is done already and they finance a print run, make a profit and I get a nice art book. Trying to develop any kind of manufacturing thing on Kickstarter just seems like a nightmare.