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Whenever I think of Fitbit I think of Pebble and get sad. I wish there was a Pebble replacement.
If you liked Pebble, you'll probably be excited about Watchy: https://watchy.sqfmi.com
It's kinda cool but it's no Pebble, or any kind of daily driver watch.
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My favorite part of snow crash was the corporate mergers with public entities like the library of congress. That one's probably safe for now, but I wonder if we'll see corporate mergers with small local governments when they start to default on their debts.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/citizen-coup... "Imagine there was no such thing as a library, and that members of the current neoliberal policy consensus were to sit down today and invent it. They might create complicated tax expenditures to subsidize the poor purchasing and reselling books, like the wage support of the earned income tax credit. They might require people to rent books from approved p…
I'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…
The reason why it's difficult for them to compete with Apple and Samsung isn't readily apparent to me. There still seems to be a large hole in the smartwatch market for a GOOD Android-compatible smartwatch. There are a lot of options, but, to me, none of them are as polished or feature-heavy as the Apple Watch. It doesn't seem that one of these companies would need access to any special internal APIs or anything to b…
Other than that, it's a pretty nice device. Unfortunately it requires a subscription to get the most out of it.
Translation: Google now has access to all your fitness and health data and will be integrated into Google Fit. No thanks and no deal.
Five or six years ago, I would have said, "Great! Now my Fitbit will be better integrated with Android and my Google ecosystem. Plus it will inject some much needed stability into a faltering company, to bolster the quality and advance their products. Yay!" Now I think about the fact that I just looked someone up on contacts.google.com, then added a visit with them to calendar.google.com, and talked with them about i…
I'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'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 owne…
The company waiting for this to happen missed out on the deal.
If someone from Fitbit is reading this: It is asinine that the data from my wearable has to go to my phone, up to the cloud, and back down to my phone for display.
Sounds like ANY device or peripheral - the data is more valuable that anything else. On acquisition - the exit strategy is to have a pile of data. I think regulation is the only way to change this because it's a gravy train.
This sort of thing is as dead as a doornail, unfortunately.
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Bought out part of Motorola to do this
Lol no ? They did that to fend Microsoft for parents. There's a reason they sold it after patent war was settled. You have half baked information and make 0 points.
Surprisingly it doesn't stop with hardware: Compete with iPhone with your own mobile OS? Nah - just acquire Android.
Lastly, a multi-trillion dollar company doesn't need your aggressive defense across every comment in this thread. Hope they see this, bro