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Fitbit confirmed it was buying Pebble for $40 million last week, and now we have our first communication from inside the transition. In a Pebble blog post, written by Jon Barlow, a Pebble watchface developer and member of Pebble’s Developer Evangelist Team, it details that Fitbit will not shutter the company’s services just yet. Pebble software and services will continue to run normally through 2017.

“To be clear, no one on this freshly-formed team seeks to brick Pebble watches in active service,” Barlow writes. “The Pebble SDK, CloudPebble, Timeline APIs, firmware availability, mobile apps, developer portal, and Pebble app store are all elements of the Pebble ecosystem that will remain in service at this time.”

Pebble users will be happy to hear that their watches will still work and continue to receive updates—for now. The post also says that developers are welcome to make and update apps for Pebble devices; it’s hard to believe, however, that many developers would spend more time on apps for a system that will be shut down eventually.