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Five or six years ago, I would have said, "Great! Now my Fitbit will be better integrated with Android and my Google ecosystem. Plus it will inject some much n
by blisterpeanuts 6y ago
Five or six years ago, I would have said, "Great! Now my Fitbit will be better integrated with Android and my Google ecosystem. Plus it will inject some much needed stability into a faltering company, to bolster the quality and advance their products. Yay!"
Now I think about the fact that I just looked someone up on contacts.google.com, then added a visit with them to calendar.google.com, and talked with them about it via gmail.com. They know so much about me already, and now they'll have my health history.
The only silver lining is that their security is probably better, and my data is less likely to be hacked and stolen.
But otherwise... Looking forward to a nice Linux/open software fitness watch, from a Kickstarter or other effort, so some of us can take better control of our data.
- _underfl0w_ 6y ago> Looking forward to a nice Linux/open software fitness watch Haven't bought one yet, but the PineTime watch from Pine64 seems nice. There's apparently already a FOSS os/firmware or two as well.
- Avamander 6y agoI have one, and I think it's progressing fast. Being nearly on-par with Mi Band ~4 is not far. The more people join the community, the faster the progress gets.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoLike Pebble, who was first bought by Fitbit and now Google?
- cush 6y agoA 5 year old Pebble time steel is still better than anything Fitbit has made
- fma 6y agoPebble Time Steel, could be argued is better than anything anyone has made. Companies adding amoled screen drains battery, complicated OS to jam as many widgets as possible renders them hard to use. Garmin arguable comes closest, but they're expensive as they have GPS trackers and other features, but I don't find their OS intuitive.