Pebble, a hardware company, made the announcement on their Kickstarter page that, “due to various factors,” the company “could no longer operate as an independent entity” and had “made the tough decision to shut down the company” after Fitbit completed the purchase of some of Pebble’s assets. Pebble went on to admit that they would no longer be building hardware and cutting production of their wearable products. Of course, you have to take into account all of the devices that have already been sold. Pebble has claimed that the devices will continue to operate as intended for now, but these devices will go without critical software updates, making them vulnerable to all manners of online thre...