Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

Post by lallysingh » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #145

myko wrote: post #84

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Nest seems to have only improved under Google? They were floundering before the purchase. That said, they ought to do Google auth integration as it's really annoying to maintain a separate Nest account for those products.

>> Nest seems to have only improved under Google? They were floundering before the purchase I think OP is referencing that Google itself is the lack of improvement. Who cares how the company is doing if buying its products are out of the question due to privacy concerns. I’m in the majority here who would never use or buy a product attached to Google.

Post by Invictus0 » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

zerkten wrote: post #190

jammygit wrote: post #183

Fitbit has a privacy policy that says they won't sell or transfer your data IIRC, but that does not prevent them from doing so in the case of a sale or merger. I hate those clauses: the hypothetical argument is always 'what if some data miner buys them' ? This is health data we're talking about

Ironically, the security of the data is probably higher when controlled and operated by Google. That protection is at the cost of linkage with the other data which Google has.

Post by Avamander » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

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you can download it from fitbit, though the daily activity is structured in a hostile json format.

> hostile json format This is new. Is "hostile" referring to a data format that has been created to be as un-portable as possible? Feels like a more accurate description would be to just saw "poorly designed format" as you cannot know their intent (unless they published their intent of course)

Post by jolux » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

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icebraining wrote: post #173

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I frankly wouldn't trust the numbers of any device that can't keep the time. Have you tried to verify them somehow?

Step counts as well as the fitbit. Heart rate is simple. How can it mess that up? Blood pressure is relative. You don't expect it to be accurate without a cuff. Same with O2. Those can show whether you're higher or lower "now" than you were an hour ago, a day ago, but they're not intended to be accurate on an absolute scale. Sleep seems to match up pretty well with snorelabs. Now that I think about it, I wonder how w…

Post by make3 » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 7:39 PM UTC

darkwater wrote: post #139

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> Xiaomi, Huawei, and Huami have really taken the wearables market by storm You link to a press release. Are there actual sales numbers to back that claim up? Because all I see out in the real world are Apple watches and Fit Bits. > I hope the rumoured Pixel Wearable isn't comically expensive like its Phone counterparts. The Apple Watch Series 3 is available on apple.com for $199.

> Because all I see out in the real world are Apple watches and Fit Bits. Which world? USA? Apple Watch doesn't work outside the Apple ecosystem, and Apple doesn't own the majority of the smartphone market. Stats for Europe, 2019 https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/10/21/smart-wearables-market... Apple was pretty stable, Fitbit lost half its market share (to Garmin, looks like), the rest was more or less stable.