It appears Pebble hasn't been doing all that great lately, as evident by the company's latest batch of lay-offs. CEO Eric Migicovsky announced that he is letting go a total of 40 employees, which might not sound like much, but actually constitutes 25% of the Pebble workforce.
The fact is that despite its popularity, Pebble is still little more than a start-up company and still relatively small. Eric Migicovsky admits that this development is very much necessitated by financial hurdles, which is surprising, considering the popularity of Pebble products. Sadly, there is a lot more to running and sustaining a successful business. Migicovsky also adds that he was able to raise some money from investors recently, but apparently not enough to prevent the drastic measure.
While slightly surprising, this development is quite natural. As in every emerging market niche, which pretty much categorized the smartwatch industry in 2012 when Pebble got its first break things evolve quickly. What this means is the relatively tiny Pebble now has to compete with giants such as Apple, LG and Microsoft for a market that doesn't seem to be expanding as rapidly as participants hoped. And it is no wonder the little guy is taking a few punches.
However, Pebble isn't giving up quite yet. Eric Migicovsky has announced that the company will refocus its efforts towards health and fitness, which aren't really a major accent in the current device lineup. Hopefully, Pebble will have more success in the new niche, as it does have a rather unique approach to the wearable concept that would be a shame to go to waste.
Bigger clearer screens at the same price would do .. when I last checked the black and white small pebble costs 99$ a year ago I guess .. and I asked here for the Galaxy Gear 1, it was priced at 120 .. so for 20$ more I would get a bigger amoled scre...
And this is result of ignoring MS Phone offer to be a partner. They choosed i-phone and i-phone made is own "rob fools money" watch and thats it! And now they lay off workers and who won???
-its a watch and people wear even uglier ones so that's not an issue -their issue is trying to change too much,making all sorts of decisions and announcing them to the public constantly without giving much thought -like you can spin this to be as...
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