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I've heard from a friend at fitbit that jawbone, Nike, and others all licensed their tech from some professor's company, whereas fitbit developed their own in h
by ryandamm 11y ago
I've heard from a friend at fitbit that jawbone, Nike, and others all licensed their tech from some professor's company, whereas fitbit developed their own in house... And evidently the licensor didn't keep pace with tech, but also didn't allow innovation on top of the stack.
This is second hand hearsay, take it for what it's worth.
- robbiet480 11y agoIt sounds like you are talking about MotionX [1] [1]: https://www.motionx.com/ https://www.motionx.com/
- rasz_pl 11y agoFitbit didnt exactly do everything in house. I know they contracted Christopher White, the other half of Elecia Whites embedded.fm podcast and consulting firm logicalelegance, to do embedded engineering for them.