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The concern is not with google dominating wearable market, but rather google solidifying it's stranglehold on ad market with more data.

• three_seagrass 6y ago
  Google holds ~55% share of the online ad market, and it's dropping an Amazon ramps up. Far from a "stranglehold".
  • liaukovv 6y ago
    But is dynamic of google buying up products and making them free or cheaper by subsidizing from search ads(with the goal of making search ads more profitable with additional data from free product) healthy for the market?
    • WorldMaker 6y ago
      Especially when it is personal health data now at risk of being used to subsidize ads? Advertising is already creepy enough trying to determine when, for instance, someone is pregnant via related purchases (and sometimes guessing correctly ahead of the person's own knowledge, per famous anecdata), just imagine how much more creepy it can get when it is data being sold to advertisers from your own wrist?
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    • three_seagrass 6y ago
      This acq focus is on devices, not ads. Google already pledged not to use user health data for ads: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-exclusive/exclusive-google-offers-data-pledge-in-bid-to-win-eu-okay-for-fitbit-buy-idUSKCN24E2X5 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-ex...