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Fitbit Won't Kill Off Pebble Services At Least Until 2018 (thenextweb.com)
Earlier this week, Fitbit announced that it was buying up the assets of smartwatch maker Pebble, and a lot of questions still exist around exactly how Pebble's existing products will work. Today a member of Pebble's developer team attempted to address some of those questions. From a report on The Next Web: In a blog post, it noted that it will keep Pebble software and services running through 2017. Jon Barlow, who was previously on Pebble's Developer Evangelist team and is now part of Fitbit's transition effort, wrote: "To be clear, no one on this freshly-formed team seeks to brick Pebble watches in active service. The Pebble SDK, CloudPebble, Timeline APIs, firmware availability, mobile apps, developer portal, and Pebble appstore are all elements of the Pebble ecosystem that will remain in service at this time. Pebble developers are welcome to keep creating and updating apps. Pebble users are free to keep enjoying their watches."
Keep an eye on Gadgetbridge if you use Android. They have already replicated a lot of what keeps your Pebble working, and if we're lucky they'll tie into using Google's voice recognition or a service of your choice. If their app would download METAR reports to give you the weather for wherever you are that would pretty much give you everything you need (that I use, anyway) that is cloud-connected.