Pebble founder accused of ‘stealing’ developer community’s work (Update: Fo

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TL;DR

• Team of developers who kept Pebble watches afloat after the company’s shutdown now accuse the founder of “stealing” their work.
• While Rebble and Core Devices had initially agreed to work together, the former now claims to disagree over the terms.
• Rebble alleges that Pebble’s founder, Eric Migicovsky, could build a “walled garden,” restricting further open-source app development.

Update: Nov 19, 2025 (1:55 AM ET): Eric Migicovsky responded with a blog explaining his stance. He says while the agreement between Rebble and Core includes a licensing fee of $0.20 per user per month, Rebble assert a 100% claim on its app store data.

He counter-accused Pebble of “attempting to create a walled garden around 13,000 apps and faces that individual Pebble developers created and uploaded to the Pebble Appstore between 2012 and 2016,” and added he’s “working hard to keep the Pebble ecosystem open source.”




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