Conference Presentation, Fireside Chat
Eric Migicovsky at Startup School SV 2014
- The company anticipates that its commitment to developing Pebble as a growing, hackable platform will increase in strategic importance over time, with the device expected to integrate into user habits and deliver cumulative value rather than immediate life-changing utility.
- Leadership plans to maintain a strategy of building products compatible with existing smartphones, with the specific exception of Windows Phone devices.
- The organization expects to capitalize on a market trend where competitors like Apple focus on premium pricing and Google on extreme miniaturization, positioning Pebble in a distinct and critical market niche.
- A community of hundreds of thousands of global users is anticipated to continue driving platform growth through hacking and the development of unique applications and features.
- Long-term compatibility is expected, evidenced by a partner's recent activity tracking app launch being designed to function with Pebble devices released two years prior.
- The platform is projected to maintain extensive customization capabilities, offering a greater variety of watch faces than the total number of watch types available in the global market.