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Pebble didn't directly go out of business. Their leadership decided to cash out with a partial acquisition and laid off everyone who wasn't in engineering. The

Pebble didn't directly go out of business. Their leadership decided to cash out with a partial acquisition and laid off everyone who wasn't in engineering. The financial situation of Pebble remains unknown to the public. With a $269 price tag, I'm not sure what the benefit of a Fitbit is over an Apple or Android watch, other than battery life.

epmaybe 9y ago
Fun fact, one of the original designers of the pebble timeline ui (Itai Vonshak) works on Intel's new Vaunt smart glasses prototype as head of products at the New Devices Group.
- _jn 9y ago
  As well as the person who put JS on Pebble in the first place (Heiko Behrens, rocky.js) and Pebble's Head of Dev Tooling (Katharine Berry, CloudPebble etc.) And yes, the Vaunt glasses run JS.
  - epmaybe 9y ago
    I didn't know that, but it makes me pretty excited to play with one :)
    - _jn 9y ago
      Same here! I've had the pleasure of meeting them both IRL, and frankly, Intel can consider themselves lucky that they're on the team.
r_klancer 9y ago
I am biased (I also work there) but the benefit of a Fitbit is the consistency of the focus on fitness and overall wellness. Over the long term the compounding positive effect can be a bigger deal in most people's lives than whatever effect is created by a flashy, "fun" gadget that enmeshes you further in the electronic haze. As a result, though, Fitbit's market positioning has become pretty solidly middle-American. Only, now it can do some of the flashy too. To think about where this all may be going, I had a "wow" moment after really thinking about what things like continuous glucose monitoring for the healthy masses might mean someday: http://www.businessinsider.com/blood-sugar-tracking-device-diet-health-fitbit-sano-diabetes-weight-loss-2018-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/blood-sugar-tracking-device-d...

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Pebble didn't directly go out of business. Their leadership decided to cash out with a partial acquisition and laid off everyone who wasn't in engineering. The

by fortythirteen 9y ago

epmaybe 9y ago
Fun fact, one of the original designers of the pebble timeline ui (Itai Vonshak) works on Intel's new Vaunt smart glasses prototype as head of products at the New Devices Group.
- _jn 9y ago
  As well as the person who put JS on Pebble in the first place (Heiko Behrens, rocky.js) and Pebble's Head of Dev Tooling (Katharine Berry, CloudPebble etc.) And yes, the Vaunt glasses run JS.
  - epmaybe 9y ago
    I didn't know that, but it makes me pretty excited to play with one :)
    - _jn 9y ago
      Same here! I've had the pleasure of meeting them both IRL, and frankly, Intel can consider themselves lucky that they're on the team.
r_klancer 9y ago
I am biased (I also work there) but the benefit of a Fitbit is the consistency of the focus on fitness and overall wellness. Over the long term the compounding positive effect can be a bigger deal in most people's lives than whatever effect is created by a flashy, "fun" gadget that enmeshes you further in the electronic haze. As a result, though, Fitbit's market positioning has become pretty solidly middle-American. Only, now it can do some of the flashy too. To think about where this all may be going, I had a "wow" moment after really thinking about what things like continuous glucose monitoring for the healthy masses might mean someday: http://www.businessinsider.com/blood-sugar-tracking-device-diet-health-fitbit-sano-diabetes-weight-loss-2018-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/blood-sugar-tracking-device-d...