Under Armour dumped an app • Hacker News Board

Re: Under Armour dumped an app

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Post by nradov » Fri, Feb 07, 2020, 11:48 PM UTC

robertjfclarke wrote: post #43

nradov wrote: post #24

It's just really tough to compete in the fitness tech market. The total addressable market size isn't huge. And over the last few years Garmin has thrown tremendous resources into it and launched so many new products that smaller competitors were squeezed out. Wahoo, Suunto, Coros, and Polar are still hanging on with small market shares in devices and Strava may survive as an independent app. Nike tried and gave up.…

It's not entirely accurate to say that Nike gave up on apps. They still maintain a core shopping app, Strava competitor and one or two other niches: https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/nike-inc/id301521406#see...

Nike gave up on wearable devices. They used to sell their own fitness trackers and sensors.

Re: Under Armour dumped an app

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Post by nradov » Fri, Feb 07, 2020, 11:54 PM UTC

jbj wrote: post #25

Tech startups change a lot, when you use something one and off over a long period of time, I find it difficult to navigate within their ecosystems. As for sports tracking, there are a few reasons I can see to use them: Social, Health, Visualization, & Data collection/management Maybe a little off topic for some, but here is my experience with sports tracking after using a couple of different solutions during the past…

You can plug Garmin devices into a USB port and copy the FIT files directly to your computer.

Re: Under Armour dumped an app

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 08, 2020, 12:30 AM UTC

wmeredith wrote: post #39

_jal wrote: post #19

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> People will eventually realize the newest neat-o feature in the latest shoes are not that big a deal. Absolutely. Any day now, humans will lose their taste for novelty and fashion. Invest in burlap!

People do this all the time. It's called your forties and it's when marketers stop caring about you.

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Re: Under Armour dumped an app

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Post by jbj » Sun, Feb 09, 2020, 8:41 AM UTC

nradov wrote: post #52

jbj wrote: post #25

Tech startups change a lot, when you use something one and off over a long period of time, I find it difficult to navigate within their ecosystems. As for sports tracking, there are a few reasons I can see to use them: Social, Health, Visualization, & Data collection/management Maybe a little off topic for some, but here is my experience with sports tracking after using a couple of different solutions during the past…

You can plug Garmin devices into a USB port and copy the FIT files directly to your computer.

what an obvious solution! Thanks

Re: Under Armour dumped an app

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Post by Topgamer7 » Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 3:21 PM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #38

Topgamer7 wrote: post #28

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I know there are at least 2 popular alternatives. My only real complaint of MFP is it takes like a full minute to start up. Don't know if its because I run adblock on my phone, and they have a long timeout to some metrics endpoint. But its a minor annoyance.

I feel like $45/yr is basically nothing for an app I use constantly every day. Do those minutes not add up for you?

Nah, I'm usually doing something else while I log. So I just pay attention to that for a minute. They already data mine my input I'm sure, as well as there are ads. I can find something better to spend $3 on per month.