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Being mad at Fitbit because Pebble was a poorly run business is misguided. Pebble was out of cash and going to shut down. Fitbit paid to keep the Pebble servers
by jeremiahlee 7y ago
Being mad at Fitbit because Pebble was a poorly run business is misguided. Pebble was out of cash and going to shut down. Fitbit paid to keep the Pebble servers running and paid people to gracefully wind it down so the devices didn't brick.
The team that built Pebble built the FitbitOS ecosystem. They have done incredible work and did it even better the second time around.
Disclosure: I am a former Fitbit employee.
- amatecha 7y agoI guess to clarify, I'm bitter that a new Fitbit smartwatch didn't come out that met or exceeded what I got out of the Pebble OG, to put it simply. The form factor and overall ecosystem didn't compare, from my subjective viewpoint. I imagine it has hopefully improved over time, but the last one I saw that a colleague had purchased (Versa or Versa 2, I forget which) I wasn't really impressed. :\ Oh, regardless, thanks for giving your $0.02, cool to hear from someone who worked there! :)