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I was so annoyed that Google bought both Pebble and Fitbit, then did... absolutely nothing with them. Would've loved a low-end (sub $100) fitness tracker with ePaper.
Best thing they did was to release the pebble rights back to the creators.
Large corporations don't buy small companies to make better products. They buy them to eliminate the competition.
Sometimes. Most times they buy them to gut them for their patents. Fitbit and Pebble both probably had some patents that Google really wanted.
Since they open sourced pebble, I'm hoping a Chinese firm will make a clone soon.