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MyFitnessPal subscriber here. I feel like I get some value from food tracking, which is why I pay for the subscription. This is a promotional piece for Redi.He
by daveaiello 4y ago
MyFitnessPal subscriber here. I feel like I get some value from food tracking, which is why I pay for the subscription.
This is a promotional piece for Redi.Health, which is somewhat understandable because the author says he is a Senior Software Engineer there.
This isn't an analysis of MyFitnessPal, how it's evolved, or why they chose to move the Barcode Scanner inside the subscription paywall.
If you want to factor that into your understanding of the situation, consider that UnderArmor bought MyFitnessPal in 2015 as part of its foray into digital fitness communities, and sold it to a private equity firm in 2020, https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/30/under-armour-to-sell-myfitnesspal-for-345-million-after-acquiring-it-in-2015-for-475-million/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/30/under-armour-to-sell-myfit....