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Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

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Re: Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

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Garmin and Apple have the fitness market covered. Fitbit never had the hardcore fitness market Garmin executed into and Apple has always had a product that works well across the wearable and fitness. Between these two companies I can't imagine there's much of a niche Fitbit does better. On the extreme hardcore triathlon user even Garmin has taken a lot of market from Suunto and the like. I've owned a handful of Garmi…

I use Strava (which I’d like to ditch) on an iPhone (I do not a GPS watch or fitness tracker). Are there open source, privacy conscious apps that can be used instead of Starva, RunKeeper et al to log my fitness activities?

Honestly, I think an Apple Watch (maybe the very affordable Series 3?) would be your best and most comfortable option. You can have your activites tracked by Apple's own first-party Activity app, which is likely the most privacy-conscious option.

I use an Apple Watch for cycling and several other activites. It isn't a necessity at all and one could debate the purchase for ages, but once you start using it you probably wouldn't want to miss all those small and frequent conveniences it provides in addition to the rock solid activity tracking.

Re: Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

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Oof. Goodbye Fitbit. Or, rather, welcome to the world where you're a pawn in internal politics. You may think you have a product but you don't. If your product survives (as in, Google didn't buy you just for the team), your product schedule will have to survive the interests of every other PA/team in Google. - You think you have software to run your products? Ha. The Android team will have a different opinion. - Even…

Just like any massive global tech company.

Re: Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a majority of iOS users are in fact using Apple Maps. That does not contradict the fact that many people install Google Maps. Reread my comments. > Btw, you can trigger Google Maps with Siri by creating a simple shortcut and when you search for a place on google. That does not make it work in all apps. The app is crippled in iOS, yet people still go out of their way to use it to avoid the dumpster fire that is Appl…

People “go out of their way” to install the Yahoo Mail app. Is that indicative of anything?

If enough people do it, it is indicative of the native mail app being unsuitable for using Yahoo Mail.

Re: Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

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Changes of control typically trigger a suite of investor and creditor protections. I'm beginning to favor a similar set of rights for consumers. Right to deletion would be one. Heightened portability requirements another.

Most of those "protections" that are triggered are contractual.

As a B2B systems provider, we also have those for our customers.

If a B2C service provider does not provide these, then you can demand them or not sign up or both.

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