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I don't usually get upset about this stuff, business is business, but with my outstanding time 2 and core orders, I am definitely feeling bamboozled. I always
by fudgy73 10y ago
I don't usually get upset about this stuff, business is business, but with my outstanding time 2 and core orders, I am definitely feeling bamboozled.
I always thought of pebbles fighting fitbits, the watch for 'us' vs the trackers for everyone. The open platform vs the locked in, the device that got just what you wanted done vs the not-really-a-watch.
It seemed like with pebble health and their relationship with Stanford things were on the up and up. Now ending warranties and such a trying to be nice but not really announcement. I expect nothing from fitbit. This sucks.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoI'm not a lawperson, but can companies really just terminate a warranty like that?
- maaaats 10y agoWhen being bought, one would think the new company would take over the responsibilities. But I also read that the employee-shares would be worthless, so it looks like FitBit bought Pebble in a weird sense.
- fudgy73 10y agoThere's probably some startupy term for this. If Fitbit and Pebble were both buildings next to each other, Fitbit just bought Pebble's to demolish it and build Fitbit Tower 2.
- sethd 10y agoThey didn't buy the company, they bought some of the assets. In an asset purchase you don't take on the liability of the company your purchasing the assets from. Pebble as a company will go into bankruptcy and cease to exist.
- maxerickson 10y agoPresumably the people affected could sue over it, but if there isn't any money left in the entity responsible for the warranties it is kind of a futile gesture.
- fudgy73 10y agoI don't know. I'd probably read some terms of service doc somewhere to understand better, but I guess I don't care enough to do so.
- kobeya 10y agoWhat are you going to do, enslave the owners to provide warranty service?