>Or do people simply have a hard time being able to accurately tell roughly how much they have walked in a day, and whether that was enough movement for them?

>Or do people simply have a hard time being able to accurately tell roughly how much they have walked in a day, and whether that was enough movement for them? People have been conditioned to being able to "tell roughly how much they have walked in a day" is not enough, the need step counts and exact distances. Then they rationalize the marketing-created demand, with needing gamification, how it helps with following through, and other crap. It also helps feel the void of a meaningless existance, doing crap day in and day out in the rat race, or being disconected from nature and other people. But from the point of view of an advertiser it's understandable. How else they'd be sold trackers and step counters and smartwatches and stuff?