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Fitbit bought and killed cool wearables like Pebble and Vector. If this deal goes through they will probably kill WearOS as well.

Fitbit: the grim reaper of wearables.



Eh, the market is the reaper of wearables. There doesn't appear to be much of a market for non-Apple wearables (at least after the initial novelty wore off - tons of people bought fitbits and wore them for a couple weeks a few years ago). These companies are only being acquired because they failed to build a profitable market niche.


I think that Fitbit provided them an exit. Is anybody of those company still working for Fitbit? I doubt it...




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