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Extremely sad. Especially when they were offered $750 million by Citizen not long ago.

I've found the watches to be a joy to use, to develop for and the community is sensational. I have no hopes it'll survive as is with Fitbit.

If you have a Pebble and are involved in any way in it's development, I strongly recommend you have a look at Gadgetbridge https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge

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As a Pebble and Citizen owner, disappointed this one didn't go through. There may have been more friction, but I think Citizen does a pretty great job of "making the right compromises" on their non-smart watches.

> Extremely sad. Especially when they were offered $750 million by Citizen not long ago.

I couldn't seem to find a source for this claim. Source?

It's in the article...

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