Last year we said goodbye to him with the sad news, for some users, of the purchase of Pebble by Fitbit, a purchase that will lead to the closure of the pioneer in the world of smartwatches that could not adapt in time to new technologies. the growing needs of users. With the disappearance of Pebble, the company that made power popular disappears from the market have on our wrist all the notifications that came to our smartphone, regardless of the make or model of the manufacturer, since it was compatible with both iOS and Android, although in the latter it had more freedom of movement than in the Apple ecosystem.
Fitbit will shut down the company and keep the company's patents as well as some of the company's smartwatch software to, in almost all likelihood, integrate it into its future models. But it seems that it is not the only smartwatch company that has put itself within a stone's throw of Fitbit, since the Vector company, a Romanian startup created by former employees of the Citizen firm, has also become part of Fitbit.
As in the case of Pebble, employees will be integrated into the Fitbit workforce and this will proceed to its closure, so that all users of the company's smartwatches will no longer receive updates and after-sales service. This new purchase cconfirms that the Fitbit company intends to launch a product with a very tight battery consumption on the market In the vein of Pebble and Vector, but spending the money that the company has invested instead of adopting this technology I do not quite see the sense unless the patents in hand of both companies allow Fitbit to obtain revenues that justify the investment.