They may not have any Legal Liablity, but it going to be a PR problem for them
I know I will not buy any FitBit products either, if this acceptable to FitBit, to do nothing for these customers knowing this was going to happen then FiTBit does not deserve anyone's money either.
It would have been better for the company to just Die if they were that bad off (which I have my doubts unless they were Seriously mismanaged)
These Acquihires where a large company partially buys out another company for there personnel and/or IP shuttering the original product and fucking over customers need to come with at minimum a HUGE PR back lash for the company buying the assets to make them at least do right by the original customers offering things like Reasonable levels of support, Transition planning, etc
Depends exactly what they bought. Those liabilities might be owned by the remaining shell which is now in administation or a vapour-like "parent company" rather than having been transferred to fitbit.
Maybe not moral, but quite probably perfectly legal.
I was not involved in the structuring of this deal, but have been involved in deals like this one. The terms are very arduously worked through to make sure the asset acquirer isn't accidentally picking up a liability they don't want.
Regarding the morality question: consider the alternatives. The moral choice is in the hands of the seller. A buyer is an option among many.
