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Ran out of money, went belly up, and sold the software assets to Fitbit so they could refund all the Kickstarter orders they couldn't fulfill, that guy.
Difference is that this time he is doing the watches with a 5 man team, not a bloated 100+ employee company with investors breathing down their necks, and the software is fully open source. Even released the Pebble 2 Duo hardware designs as a reference for others wanting to make a PebbleOS watch.