Over and out for the Pebble – purchased by Fitbit – ITavisen.en

Two products will be cancelled and the updates stopped.

It is rumored that the acquisition is valued at 40 million dollars after a few days of speculation.

the Acquisition is official
Fitbit brings according to the agreement of the employees of Pebble that can be platform – and app-development to improve the Fitbits hardware.

the Pebbles developers should therefore work together with the Fitbits current team.

This says that Fitbit-the boss of the acquisition:

“Now that simple wearables become smarter and smartklokker get health and fitness features, we see an opportunity to build on our strengths and enhance our leading position in the wearables category.

With this acquisition we are well positioned to accelerate eksansjonen of the platform and ecosystem that allows the Fitbit to a vital part of life for a broad group of customers, as well as to improve the tools hospital, forsikrere and employees need for more useful to implement wearables in the preventative and chronic medicine.“

No more Pebble products
the Company Pebble disappears thus, due to various reasons, according to founder Eric Migicovsky. Also, the Pebble Time Core and the Pebble Core has been cancelled.

Active Pebble-devices that have already been sold will continue to operate, notify the company, and kill enough with it the hope of future software updates.

But for how long?

Source:
the Pebble Kickstarter