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What really disappointed me about the fitbit was that it required it to be tethered to the phone and my account before it would function as a pedometer. It see
by sitkack 6y ago
What really disappointed me about the fitbit was that it required it to be tethered to the phone and my account before it would function as a pedometer.
It seems broken that I also have to have a phone, app store access to get a device to drive the pixels for data it already has.
Every piece of hardware that does this is effectively "app store locked", your phone is now your software dongle for your hardware.
- brlewis 6y agoSee the section "Don't have a mobile device available?" on https://www.fitbit.com/setup https://www.fitbit.com/setup for desktop apps. Some functions, like sleep tracking, are too computationally intensive to do on a wrist computer.
- sitkack 6y agoThats neat. But the device would only pair and should have some sort of functionality out of the box.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoSuch functions can be done on a more powerful mobile computer, but that still doesn't justify the requirement for having an account/Internet connection available.
- Retric 6y agoThat wrist computer has a lot of compute power, suggesting sleep tracking needs more is a rather extraordinary claim. Not having decent UI far is more credible.
- sneak 6y agoDJI stuff, including the totally offline stuff like the Osmo Action, Osmo Pocket, and their handheld gimbals also work this way: you have to provide email/create an account to "activate" them to even use them.