[roc]

Considering this patent was filed in mid-2011 and is almost certainly claiming an earlier invention date, I think you may have your order of events backwards.

[potatolicious]

The company behind Pebble has been working on smartwatches for a lot longer than Pebble - well before 2011. There was even a launched product - inPulse - before Pebble.

[roc]

And? The claim was the reaction to the Pebble is what motivated Apple. I merely posited the calendar doesn't support that.

If you want to generalize it to "Apple is doing something similar to what other people had previously done" that's a completely different argument.