[ixwt]

This is a rather bizare take. Pebble turned down a massive deal to keep doing their own thing. They sold cheap after they were going down because they had too mich staff, and not enough sales. Which Eric has said many times, and can even be found on his blog.

Then, when they were being sold, instead of shutting down the Pebble store and basically bricking all Pebble watches, they intentionally opened it up to make it possible for community support. Which is where Rebble stepped in.

Bizarre and disingenuous take. That really doesn't take into account Pebble's actions, much less their words.

[warkdarrior]

What's bizarre? Per your own statement, "They sold cheap" as soon as they encountered some hardship, so it is quite understandable to not trust they'll behave differently this time around.

[ixwt]

As far as I recall, it was sell cheap, or collapse with nothing. Garmin bought cheap and gutted it for the IP. It wasn't a sell to get paid, it was a sell or get nothing. It wasn't just hardship, it was the end.

[jerlam]

It wasn't Garmin. Fitbit bought Pebble, then Fitbit failed and was bought by Google. Google then open sourced the Pebble source code.

https://9to5google.com/2025/01/27/pebble-smartwatch-2025-goo...

[ItsHarper]

It was Fitbit, but otherwise, yeah

[Pfhortune]

> "They sold cheap" as soon as they encountered some hardship

Nobody is perfect, and running a small hardware startup is difficult. I'm not saying Eric and co are perfect, but it seems like he's been fairly forthright about the mistakes made at Pebble[1] and what Core aims to do better.

Shit happens, people make mistakes, Apple/Google decide to compete with you and/or lock you out of parts of their garden.

[1] https://ericmigi.com/blog/success-and-failure-at-pebble