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Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form


Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, Pebble abruptly ended. The hardware startup closed

Founder and CEO Eric Migicovsky would argue that the company’s rapid growth and feature expansion caused Pebble to lose sight of his initial vision. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling) Simple and beautiful user experience around a core set of features I use regularly (telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking) Buttons! As for whether an audience remains for Pebble in a post-Apple Watch world, he jokes, “There are at least dozens of us.” He notes that the brand still commands its own active Subreddit, eight years after closing its doors.

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