Garmin

Garmin appears in Eric Migicovsky on Pebble, Kickstarter, and Building for Yourself as one of the companies whose wearable and fitness positioning pressured Pebble after Pebble’s initial notification-centered smartwatch success. The source does not give a Garmin history; it uses the company as part of the competitive field around wrist hardware.

Garmin’s role in this wiki entry is therefore comparative. Together with Apple and Fitbit, it helps explain why Pebble explored health, fitness, color watches, and other product directions under Product Vision Drift and Consumer Electronics Lifecycle pressure.

Connections

• Pebble, Fitbit, and Apple - source competitive set.
• Consumer Electronics Lifecycle and Product Vision Drift - concepts the mention helps illustrate.