Pebble or Rebble?
Posted on 18 December, 2016
Quick update on the shutdown of Pebble — there have been a couple of posts on their developer blog which suggest that the watches (and their app store) should keep working at least for the next few months.
As a brief aside, the tone of those posts is a bit odd, given that they're admitting failure and telling developers who they're abandoning — people who have presumably invested time and effort into the platform — how much they're looking forward to their new jobs with Fitbit.
This is somewhat tempered by the fact that a decent proportion of their workforce have been laid off, but still ...
The fond hope evinced by the Pebble team that 'community developers' will step forward and take on the mantle of running the backend seems to be coming true though — a team calling themselves Rebble is doing just that.
Will be interesting to see how this pans out ...
