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Would I be wrong in guessing you are a Fitbit shareholder who is unhappy they decided to sell to Google?

breck 6y ago
I was a shareholder (sold when they got acquired for ~$7), as well as GARMIN and APPLE (I'm obviously long on the whole wearable space as it is the future of healthcare). I took a bath on FitBit (I kept buying buying buying and so maybe ended up cost averaging in at $9 or $10), but I'd do it again in a heart beat. They are pioneering future medicine. In 50 years people are going to look at medicine pre wearables like we look at healthcare in the 1800's. I was very happy FitBit sold to Google because I want them to survive, and unfortunately in this current tech regime the only way to do that is join one of the big players. It just makes me sick when people who are partly responsible for the current anti-competitive marketplace make phony statements pointing the blame at companies like Goog, and heroes like FitBit are caught in the middle.
- toxik 6y ago
  Let us distinguish the statement “wearables will impact healthcare” from “FitBit puts a doctor on your wrist”.
- ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  > I was very happy FitBit sold to Google because I want them to survive Perhaps you aren't familiar with the fate of nearly every other acquisition Google has made. https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
  - breck 6y ago
    Yeah, it could go poorly. But there's also Google Maps and YouTube. (Although both seem to be getting worse nowadays :( )
    - xerox13ster 6y ago
      The other day I tried like 10 times on mobile and web (and in incognito) to get Maps to show me a map of where all the Weinerschnitzel locations were in the US (you'd think Google MAPS could do that right), and no matter how far I zoomed out on any device, if I hit enter on the search or hit "Search this area" it zoomed me back in on my region and said 'oh right there'. NO GOOGLE that's not what I wanted at any point...thanks for assuming you know what information I want, again, even in incognito. "directions to work campus" always sends me over a toll bridge when I have no tolls selected as my default! Maps, as far as I'm concerned, is a dead product already. It won't show me the closest local places at times, or refuses to show me other locations. It editorializes my searches, and gives me bad directions. I quite honestly cannot wait for a better alternative in an app. I wish HERE Maps had survived the Nokia acquisition. MapQuest got my back though. :)
- staticman2 6y ago
  I enjoyed using Fitbit for years but came to the realization the calorie estimates were laughably off and that, for my body type and movement habits at least- the steps were inacurrate. I wouldn't call them pioneering future medicine- it seemed to me the idea of the company was great but they had to have had a flippant attitude to the accuracy of the data provided.

I was a shareholder (sold when they got acquired for ~$7), as well as GARMIN and APPLE (I'm obviously long on the whole wearable space as it is the future of healthcare). I took a bath on FitBit (I kept buying buying buying and so maybe ended up cost averaging in at $9 or $10), but I'd do it again in a heart beat. They are pioneering future medicine. In 50 years people are going to look at medicine pre wearables like we look at healthcare in the 1800's. I was very happy FitBit sold to Google because I want them to survive, and unfortunately in this current tech regime the only way to do that is join one of the big players. It just makes me sick when people who are partly responsible for the current anti-competitive marketplace make phony statements pointing the blame at companies like Goog, and heroes like FitBit are caught in the middle.

toxik 6y ago
Let us distinguish the statement “wearables will impact healthcare” from “FitBit puts a doctor on your wrist”.
ocdtrekkie 6y ago
> I was very happy FitBit sold to Google because I want them to survive Perhaps you aren't familiar with the fate of nearly every other acquisition Google has made. https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
- breck 6y ago
  Yeah, it could go poorly. But there's also Google Maps and YouTube. (Although both seem to be getting worse nowadays :( )
  - xerox13ster 6y ago
    The other day I tried like 10 times on mobile and web (and in incognito) to get Maps to show me a map of where all the Weinerschnitzel locations were in the US (you'd think Google MAPS could do that right), and no matter how far I zoomed out on any device, if I hit enter on the search or hit "Search this area" it zoomed me back in on my region and said 'oh right there'. NO GOOGLE that's not what I wanted at any point...thanks for assuming you know what information I want, again, even in incognito. "directions to work campus" always sends me over a toll bridge when I have no tolls selected as my default! Maps, as far as I'm concerned, is a dead product already. It won't show me the closest local places at times, or refuses to show me other locations. It editorializes my searches, and gives me bad directions. I quite honestly cannot wait for a better alternative in an app. I wish HERE Maps had survived the Nokia acquisition. MapQuest got my back though. :)
staticman2 6y ago
I enjoyed using Fitbit for years but came to the realization the calorie estimates were laughably off and that, for my body type and movement habits at least- the steps were inacurrate. I wouldn't call them pioneering future medicine- it seemed to me the idea of the company was great but they had to have had a flippant attitude to the accuracy of the data provided.