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To summarise your comment: "Bah, Humbug." More seriously, I think you're being way too dismissive. The same train of logic could apply to any tech advances we'

by amirmc 13y ago

To summarise your comment: "Bah, Humbug." More seriously, I think you're being way too dismissive. The same train of logic could apply to any tech advances we've had. Email? Use letters. Smartphones? Use a proper computer. Social networks? Use a paper address book. Do you feel the same about those? Compliance is a big problem for medicine. Motivating people (nay, yourself) to be active is a problem. Keeping track of shopping/groceries is a problem in a busy or shared house. Whether they are enough of a problem to build a business around is another question.

bluejellybean 13y ago
I disagree that the same train of logic could be applied to other big tech advances. The pieces of tech you stated are better than the alternative by leaps and bounds. They all reduce the time (and money) it takes to communicate by huge margins. For medication, I can only speak from personal experience and I could be completely off base. As far as motivation, my active friends don't use/care about fitness apps and my inactive friends can't be bothered to use the bloody things anyway. Obviously this all comes back to personal experience and I would love to be proved wrong (always interesting seeing a product/service you think is crap get huge) but until it takes off I am skeptical of its actual value
- mattmanser 13y ago
  It's for your inactive friends who want to become active. One of the things that you'll notice if you go to /r/loseit is how obsessively weight losers will measure everything. It's a way to keep themselves focused and accountable. I can see the uses for this, just, as many people are saying, very creepy branding.
mscarborough 13y ago
That's not what the parent comment is saying. I share her/his view that this is pretty lame, and I don't mind being dismissive about it. Adding more dongles to a problem doesn't fix it. Are the people who would be best served with this really sitting around with an iPad and dongles? I'm surprised this isn't just a big joke.

by amirmc 13y ago

bluejellybean 13y ago

I disagree that the same train of logic could be applied to other big tech advances. The pieces of tech you stated are better than the alternative by leaps and bounds. They all reduce the time (and money) it takes to communicate by huge margins. For medication, I can only speak from personal experience and I could be completely off base. As far as motivation, my active friends don't use/care about fitness apps and my inactive friends can't be bothered to use the bloody things anyway. Obviously this all comes back to personal experience and I would love to be proved wrong (always interesting seeing a product/service you think is crap get huge) but until it takes off I am skeptical of its actual value

mattmanser 13y ago
It's for your inactive friends who want to become active. One of the things that you'll notice if you go to /r/loseit is how obsessively weight losers will measure everything. It's a way to keep themselves focused and accountable. I can see the uses for this, just, as many people are saying, very creepy branding.

mscarborough 13y ago

That's not what the parent comment is saying. I share her/his view that this is pretty lame, and I don't mind being dismissive about it. Adding more dongles to a problem doesn't fix it. Are the people who would be best served with this really sitting around with an iPad and dongles? I'm surprised this isn't just a big joke.