A classic gadget returns in the world of technology and with numerous fans: Pebble smart watches.
In addition, they do it recovering their original name, since for a few years they have not been able to be called that. However, now its owner has managed to recover the commercial brand and Pebble fans are in luck: their smart watches are called Pebble again.
It has been Eric Migicovsky himself, CEO of Core Devices - Core was the name that the company used after losing the use of Pebble - the one who has communicated through his official blog and his account in X that has recovered the brand and that from now on the core 2 duo watches are called Pebble 2 Duo. In the same way, the Core Time 2 will be called Pebble Time 2.
An emblematic name is thus recovered in the field of intelligent wearables and that had many fans, some of whom even organized to recall the brand or managed the sale of official merchandising through the Internet.
What happened to Pebble?
But as a reminder, it is curious to know What happened to Pebble And why the commercial brand ceased to be used, if it was one of the main smart watches manufacturers in the last decade.
You have to go back to 2016, when Pebble was bought by Fitbit, who paid $ 23 million for the brand. However, Fitbit was acquired by Google in 2021. This meant the end of the brand.
However, Google decided Open the Pebble Code -Pebbleos- and make it public. This allowed its creator, Migicovsky, to launch their watches at the beginning of this year. But of course, I no longer had the trademark, so he decided to call them at first Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2.
But as the creator has recognized, recovering the brand has been easier than he thought after a brief legal process. Thus, it is done with one of the most popular names among the fans of technology and also recover the power of the user community that Pebble has behind.
According to the manager, the recovery of the registered brand Pebble means that they can also use it for software and hardware projects related to Pebble that can come in the future.
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