Product Warranty Pebble Not Applicable Again After Acquired By Fitbit

Pebble, a smartwatch best brands, announced that it stops producing smartwatch device while closing the company, according to Polygon.

Rumors about this company bought by Fitbit actually have surfaced since last week. Fitbit itself is a company which many produce wearable for exercise and health needs. Yesterday, Pebble confirm this issue in his website Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects.

According to Bloomberg, only a portion of the assets are sold to Fitbit Pebble. This includes recruiting software engineers and testers, as well as intellectual property rights, such as the operating system clock belonging to Pebble, watch app and cloud services.

Regarding the fate of the employees Pebble, very few teams that interface designers offered a job. In fact, the hardware team did not get a job offer. Instead, employees who did not receive an offer of employment will receive severance pay.

The warranty does not apply

Pebble also announced that they no longer provide a warranty. In fact, any warranty is no longer valid for Pebble that has been circulating in the market. This means, you have to bear alone for any risk Pebble device you purchase. If Pebble you die, you can not get instead.

Although any warranty that has been promised Pebble is no longer valid, when you purchase products Pebble indirectly, for example from Amazon, you can still get a refund in cash or store vouchers, as quoted from Gizmodo. Its worth noting, you will not receive software updates or other updates after the acquisition of this Fitbit.

Previously, there were projects Kickstarter crowd-funding to support the Pebble. If you follow these activities and have not received the products Pebble, then you are entitled to a refund (refund). The refund process will be done through Kickstarter system in March 2017.

Pebble into a historical project on Kickstarter. Because he managed to get the biggest funding. The first project Pebble on Kickstarter successfully received funding of more than US $ 20 million of the 78.471 funders.