I love my Fitbit hardware but loathe their apps. After 5 years or so, they still suck at data synchronization.
I hope Google fixes this
Fitbit is now officially part of Google
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#112Has anyone tried out Wyse's fitness band? How are they as a company? The prices are the lowest around on their entire lineup
I don't know about their fitness band. What I know is that Amazon will acquire Wyze within the next 2 years.
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#113I'm sure the sentiment here will be very much against this acquisition, but keep in mind that Fitbit was getting killed and would likely have gone out of business without this. It is tough for a company like Fitbit to compete with Apple & Samsung. This should lead to more competition by making it possible for Fitbit to compete with Apple. If it doesn't then the acquisition was a failure for Google anyway - Fitbit's c…
I have a Fitbit and I love this acquisition. I want to be able to put my fitness data in the rest of the Google ecosystem. The more data Google has on me, the more use I get out of Google's tools. I really don't care that it has tons of data on me, Google has been super responsible of my data and its uses. The risk/reward is 100% worth.
The assurance that it's not going to be used for Ads is the only thing that makes this acceptable. Instead of it being on some random fitbit server on someone's Cloud, it'll be held securely on Google servers.
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#114Hopefully this means better support for exporting, say, step and minute by minute heart rate data to Apple health and vice versa. I want to be able to do what I want with my data.
I would imagine the data will go to Google Fit which exposes a comprehensive (but difficult to use) API.
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#115I'm sure the sentiment here will be very much against this acquisition, but keep in mind that Fitbit was getting killed and would likely have gone out of business without this. It is tough for a company like Fitbit to compete with Apple & Samsung. This should lead to more competition by making it possible for Fitbit to compete with Apple. If it doesn't then the acquisition was a failure for Google anyway - Fitbit's c…
> Fitbit was getting killed and would likely have gone out of business
If this is a reason for acquisition, then why wouldn't G*gle wait until they were "killed" so they could come in and buy their business for pennies on the dollar?
We're fast approaching a dystopian Snow Crash world of all-powerful corporations, and you people are cheering it along.
How can these both be true?
- it's bad all US legacy media is owned by 5 corporations. - it's good for FB, Apple, Amazon and to buy up all adjacent business.
I don't see how sharing data is a good argument for unchecked consolidation of power. I'm pretty sure Fitbit could export an open standard data format, and Google could consume one. But I guess rich people wouldn't be able to get even richer if they did that.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A smartwatch should not be burning a lot of RAM. Then again, the Gen 5 has 1Go and works fine. That's the same amount than an Apple watch serie 4/5. > It has a battery the size of a dime, it should be doing very little with processor or memory. Wear OS is far from perfect but that's more on the Snapdragon 3100. Samsung and Apple CPU are far better but they don't sell them. It's very much a chicken and egg situation…
Qualcomm isn't the only microprocessor vendor. And even if it was, imagine this call: "Hi, Qualcomm, this is Rick Osterloh from Google. How much money would we need to invest for you to release a smartwatch processor that isn't garbage?" "Hey Rick. We'd need about $$$$." "Great, I work for a trillion-dollar company." Which is to say, Google has the money and power to literally make what it wants happen, if it isn't h…
> Qualcomm isn't the only microprocessor vendor.
Well, actually, on this segment, they kind of are.
> It is fundamentally a lack of commitment by Google to support their product line.
Yes, I think I did say that repeatedly in the post you are answering. I also talked about the Nexus line. The again, Google did buy a giant of the wearable and fitness industry. It's just that the acquisition took a lot longer than expected.
Still, I was initially answering someone calling Wear OS garbage. It is in need of more developers and working on suboptimal hardware however.
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#117It's becoming more and more difficult to keep away from Google eyes these days. Picasa, Waze, Nest, Fitbit where all companies whose products I used before the acquisition.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
What really disappointed me about the fitbit was that it required it to be tethered to the phone and my account before it would function as a pedometer. It seems broken that I also have to have a phone, app store access to get a device to drive the pixels for data it already has. Every piece of hardware that does this is effectively "app store locked", your phone is now your software dongle for your hardware.
See the section "Don't have a mobile device available?" on https://www.fitbit.com/setup for desktop apps. Some functions, like sleep tracking, are too computationally intensive to do on a wrist computer.
Thats neat. But the device would only pair and should have some sort of functionality out of the box.
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#119pixel watch coming soon?
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#120Fitbit has made some solid devices but seriously lacks in the software area. Finding/Installing apps on your versa is as bad as it was on my palm pilot.