[ixwt]

As far as I recall, it was sell cheap, or collapse with nothing. Garmin bought cheap and gutted it for the IP. It wasn't a sell to get paid, it was a sell or get nothing. It wasn't just hardship, it was the end.

[jerlam]

It wasn't Garmin. Fitbit bought Pebble, then Fitbit failed and was bought by Google. Google then open sourced the Pebble source code.

https://9to5google.com/2025/01/27/pebble-smartwatch-2025-goo...

[ItsHarper]

It was Fitbit, but otherwise, yeah