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Many, including myself, were understandably upset that Fitbit cherry-picked the best of Pebble, cut the rest and discarded the existing customer base.

June 2018 will see the servers supporting Pebble’s app eco-system pulled offline, rendering the watch capable only of basic notifications, supporting some existing installed apps and, of course, telling the time. The Time 2 was due for launch late 2016, but after maintaining radio silence for a few weeks management dropped an overwhelmingly positive statement about the IP purchase, followed by the sucker punch that the Time 2 that many had again backed on Kickstarter would never ship, and also that support was ending immediately for all watches. The Pebble watch was one of crowd-funding website Kickstarter’s biggest successes, both for the original and the Time series. With Apple Watch decimating all others in the smart wearables sector, is there room for a new smartwatch, and is the Fitbit Versa actually any good? Three years later, and after acquiring the Pebble IP and key staff in 2016, Fitbit have released the closest thing to a worthy successor. In 2015 Pebble released what was to be their last smartwatch.