Peter Pan in the smartwatch industry
Dec. 7th, 2016 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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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Date: 2016-12-08 05:02 am (UTC)Ahahaha that's what you think, pally.
One-to-one Pebble support is no longer available. Any Pebble currently out in the wild is no longer covered by or eligible for warranty exchange.
WOW. I R Not a Lawyer, but that seems like it could land them in some deep shit.