what can i say...this was disturbing news for me.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-07/pebble-said-to-discuss-selling-software-assets-to-fitbit
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-2-time-2-and-core-an-entirely-new-3g-ultra/posts/1752929
a startup with enough money to make whatever they want goes into dept, does another round at kickstarter just to cover there previous depts. Sings hallelua that it's so successfull and in the meantime sell the company software to another bad company and stops making watches.
i can only see 3 possibilities :
- Pebble know that the chinese will flood the market with cheap e-color displays i a few months/years and they just don't stand a chance.
- Worst management of a company possible. With such a great and reliable userbase they could just sell every watch 50$ more and still sell the product.
- They were just in it for the money.
or maybe other big businesses just want to protect there own investments in other wearables watches/companies and didn't want to take risks. (thats why kickstarter is such a succes btw)
sad story and so we lost the only player that made a decent smartwatch worth the name in my opinion.
comments/views always welcome.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-07/pebble-said-to-discuss-selling-software-assets-to-fitbit
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-2-time-2-and-core-an-entirely-new-3g-ultra/posts/1752929
a startup with enough money to make whatever they want goes into dept, does another round at kickstarter just to cover there previous depts. Sings hallelua that it's so successfull and in the meantime sell the company software to another bad company and stops making watches.
i can only see 3 possibilities :
- Pebble know that the chinese will flood the market with cheap e-color displays i a few months/years and they just don't stand a chance.
- Worst management of a company possible. With such a great and reliable userbase they could just sell every watch 50$ more and still sell the product.
- They were just in it for the money.
or maybe other big businesses just want to protect there own investments in other wearables watches/companies and didn't want to take risks. (thats why kickstarter is such a succes btw)
sad story and so we lost the only player that made a decent smartwatch worth the name in my opinion.
comments/views always welcome.
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