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This is the most orderly shutdown of a hardware+services company I've seen. Congrats to Team Pebble for that. It has to suck to end this way after 8 years. :(
by rdl 10y ago
This is the most orderly shutdown of a hardware+services company I've seen. Congrats to Team Pebble for that.
It has to suck to end this way after 8 years. :(
I hope someone builds a product like Pebble Core; I'm not sure how generally viable that is, but I'd love to have it myself.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> This is the most orderly shutdown of a hardware+services company I've seen. Congrats to Team Pebble for that. Oh, then you wasn't aware of the shitstorm that was happening on Reddit, Pebble forums and Kickstarter. The company basically went silent a month or so ago. Then, after the news of the acquisition broke early, they slowly progressed from total silence to completely unprofessional behaviour (i.e. posting stupid shit and not answering anything). I was - still am - a great fan of Pebble, so this whole affair really hurts me. :(.
- rdl 10y agoMaybe you're right -- I didn't see that. I was mostly concerned w/ refunds on pending KS (which they don't have to do) and with them not shutting down the servers. It's not ideal, but I suspect they have limited resources. I wish there were a way for companies to pay into an escrow/bond/whatever to keep their HW products alive in case of failure. I was really sad when Zeo (sleep tracking EEG thing) died; couldn't get the website or replacement consumables :(