I wish them luck. I got a Versa 3 for Christmas because I hated charging my Apple Watch everyday. I tried it for the past 3 weeks and have finally gone back to my Apple Watch. The Versa 3 is fundamentally worse at everything...except battery life.
Fitbit is now officially part of Google
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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.
Sure - it was actually HTC. 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
I don't care at the valuation. I see the pitchforks out every time on every thing. There's a clear agenda. And you epitomize it.
Yes "bro" they saw this. Tool.
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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.
That wrist computer has a lot of compute power, suggesting sleep tracking needs more is a rather extraordinary claim. Not having decent UI far is more credible.
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Like Pebble, who was first bought by Fitbit and now Google?
A 5 year old Pebble time steel is still better than anything Fitbit has made
Pebble Time Steel, could be argued is better than anything anyone has made. Companies adding amoled screen drains battery, complicated OS to jam as many widgets as possible renders them hard to use.
Garmin arguable comes closest, but they're expensive as they have GPS trackers and other features, but I don't find their OS intuitive.
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#345Hopefully 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 built an app for this: https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/fitsync
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Now I'm curious what Apple and Netflix has done to deserve being considered as more evil than Google.
I'm not really trying to come out against Netflix here, but I personally think their desire to compete with every other way one could spend their time doesn't have human's best interests at heart. I recognize the agency (most) everyone has to spend their time as they will, but I don't like how I feel mentally if all my free time gets sucked into consuming content. YMMV
But YouTube is ok?
At least Netflix asks you every few hours if you’re still alive. YouTube will happily play you videos forever.
And they’re only a sliver of the company.
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#347If 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.
Reading, and I guess I'll take the time to explain why it works this way. Unfortunately I have to keep it at fairly high level. Long story short, we don't trust the transport mechanisms by which our customer's data gets from their wrist to our backend. As such, we securely encrypt it on the device and that encrypted payload can only be decrypted once it's on our servers. At that point it becomes available to be fetch…
What about...just providing a desktop app to receive all the data and do all the computation needed? Or the same thing in your phone. What are the exact dangers of these two approaches? And dangers to whom?
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#348I'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…
They want their brand recognition, brand loyalty, market share, and specifically they want a watch to compliment their Pixel phones to counter growth of Apple Watch (which locks people into buying iPhones). All those reasons are better now than later
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not really trying to come out against Netflix here, but I personally think their desire to compete with every other way one could spend their time doesn't have human's best interests at heart. I recognize the agency (most) everyone has to spend their time as they will, but I don't like how I feel mentally if all my free time gets sucked into consuming content. YMMV
But YouTube is ok? At least Netflix asks you every few hours if you’re still alive. YouTube will happily play you videos forever. And they’re only a sliver of the company.
> YouTube will happily play you videos forever
That's actually not true, at least in playlists. I regularly get the "Are you still watching" or whatever it is for YouTube when I put on music playlists.
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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…
If someone invented the concept of a library today wouldn't it sound, you know, kinda socialist?
Only if the state owned all the pens and paper. I guess those are the means of production for authors?