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Fitbit feels a bit like loss leader for a bunch of cloud services already. "Sign up for our premium subscription stuff" is constantly pushed. Meanwhile the cha
by ilikerashers 4y ago
Fitbit feels a bit like loss leader for a bunch of cloud services already. "Sign up for our premium subscription stuff" is constantly pushed.
Meanwhile the charge 5 takes ages to sync just to show metrics and doesn't work offline.
It's a cheap tracker that looks good but something is definitely off about the product.
- t_mann 4y agoI once ran a trial comparing two FitBit models (one quite recent at the time) to a medical heart measurement device and manual counting. My conclusion was that FitBit's numbers were pretty much garbage: the manual and medical measurements generally agreed up to 3-4 beats, while the FitBit readings were off by 20 beats and more and fluctuating wildly in a short span of time. Their readings for step numbers might be more accurate, I don't know, but I concluded that the heart rate measurements probably contained more noise than signal.