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In June 2018, support officially ended for Pebble smartwatches. After being launched on Kickstarter in 2012, the Pebble quickly gained traction due to its long battery life, always-on display and a reasonably developer-friendly ecosystem that supported creating multiple watch faces. Successive generations of watches like the Pebble Time also launched thanks to backing on Kickstarter.
Sadly, Pebble failed to compete with existing rivals and struggled to make a consistent profit. The company shut down in 2016 and Fitbit acquired most of its assets and employees.
The coding community immediately sprang into action and begun work on so-called Rebble web services and an app store, to restore much of the Pebble devices’ functionality in the absence of an officially maintained OS.
Pebble’s founder Eric Migicovsky has now also announced plans to resurrect Pebble via use of newly released open source code.