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

[ironed_orchid]

I've mostly backed books and CDs, and all have arrived. Probably because people understand how to make books and CDs. It's the "develop this new gadget" projects which seem to have the most trouble.