Friday, December 16, 2016

After the acquisition of Fitbit, smartwatch Pebble may stop working – Wired.it

(Photo: Pebble)
(Photo: Pebble)

The announcement of the end of the manufacturer of smartwhatch Pebble — that it has ceased the activities to be acquired by Fitbit — it was a blow to the heart for the entire community of technology enthusiasts, but even more seared outside observers are the owners of one of the gadgets of the company. In fact, the latter, relying on cloud computing for many of its functions, the greater risk of losing their value and utility. In this regard, from the blog of the group arrived in the last hour of an announcement: the management Fitbit has the intention to keep operating the devices at least until the end of next year.

The various components of the cloud infrastructure of Pebble, including updates, developer portal and app store, will remain in their place at least through the 2017. The owners of the popular smartwatch will be, therefore, to the wrist of a fully functional product for another year, but what will happen from 2018 onwards, there is an unknown total. On the blog you read that some components — such as the Pebble Health, whose data reside in the cloud — will continue to work as expected, but other tiles may be lost to the road. In particular, the group is examining various components, such as messaging, dictation, and weather to understand "if, and for how long" will continue to be part of the package the Pebble. The intervention continues asking for the help of the community of developers which over the years has made numerous and this around the company: the conversation is open to anyone who wants to contribute w ith an idea on how to keep the devices as they were designed.

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