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damn FOSL really need the cash huh? $40M and they said yes!?


Does that not correlate with other wearable exits


reminds me of pebble's "exit"


probably yes. The Apple watch has eaten into their market - the lower priced fashion watches. Not sure why they'd get rid of their smart watch division.

Maybe because only one watch can have wrist time at a time (maybe except for Buzz Aldrin) and Apple catches a big portion of the market by default already (almost all of the iPhone userbase).

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/smartwatches-fossil-apple-...


They're not getting rid of it. They're selling an unspecified chunk of IP and the team that worked on it. They're still going to produce smartwatches.


isn't fossil owned by swatch? They have a generally successful actual watch business, and they probably just decided it's time to stop losing money on this since it's not actually a core business.


Pretty sure fossil is independently owned.




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