Pebble's new e-paper smartwatches ship with a 30-day warranty. Founder Eric Migicovsky is not apologizing for it. His position: trust in the product and the team behind it matters more than the length of a warranty document.
Migicovsky revived Pebble in early 2024, eight years after the original company collapsed. The new hardware keeps the iconic aesthetic but upgrades the core: larger e-paper displays, updated internals. The interview digs into how a small team justifies that warranty window and what 'making things right' actually means in practice, not just in a PR statement.
The full piece is worth reading for what Migicovsky reveals about the structural limits of a revived hardware startup and how much of Pebble's survival depends on community goodwill rather than conventional consumer protections.
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