Have worn a FitBit for seven years - night and day. After watching the data spread and dilution of my once loved Nest products, there's not a chance in hell that I'm letting Google near that amount of private life data about me in a FitBit acquisition. Hello there new Apple Watch... but gosh I wish it monitored sleep.
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Apple Watch Competition to Grow as Google Plans Its Own Wearables Following Fitbit Acquisition
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I love my Fitbit. I'm not a huge fan of Google. I'll have to see what data they want from my Fitbit before I decide to upgrade or not.
You can likely bet that with past performance being the best prediction of future behavior, you won’t like how this will play out.
Is Android Wear still a thing? I thought it went to the same abyss Google messaging Apps went to.
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Fitbit was a solid company, now likely to be ruined by Google and their quest for user data to support their advertising business. I don't see either as much competition, but I welcome it. Always good to push Apple to be better.
Let's watch Google pay to further destroy another brand.
I think you missed the "not" in your reply. Otherwise, my delusion doesn't make sense.
I don't think Apple benefits from tracking me. Google's whole business model depends on targetted advertising. That's why they track.
I use AutoSleep app to monitor my sleep on AW.
Lets see how long it will take them to sell it to another company like Lenovo....
With Google's machine-learning prowess, they're the one company that bring a value-add to this space. Fitbit was getting crushed because they're not great at software / AI. That will change with this acquisition. More competition, the better.
True but in this case, it won't matter. Fitbit didn't make a dent on Apple Watch sale and I don't see that changing with new owner.
Soon, you’ll be able to Google search a person's exact location!
(If they’re using a GoogleBit, that is.)
(If they’re using a GoogleBit, that is.)
I never faced this ad/privacy issue in real life, can someone explain how would it work day to day without broad descriptions about nothing and corporate talk about "privacy being important"? Like, they see, that i'm 5 feet tall and spam me ads to my google junk mail for short people clothing or what?
"will not be used for google ads" still means that they will hand over all health data to Google. Same thing as with Nest.
You are so wrong.
WearOS works. I have two WearOs devices by LG.
Both has SIM capability before the AppleWatch was introduced with the ability.
Google had a wearable store up and running that did not need a phone before Apple introduced a store for their watch.
There have been ice builders for Android Wear and now WearOS for years.
I'd say now we have a real ballgame in the wearable space.
They're not using for ads, but they will use it for whatever else it is they do with data. Same for Nest: all data handed over to Google. They don't use video recordings from Nest cameras for ads, but they still process it.
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WearOS has much better exercise detection through Google Fit. But that's about where the fun ends. I've been using WearOS devices for work for years and they're absolutely terrible, crappy, useless. Battery lasts until 4 p.m. if you're lucky, slow as molasses, App Store selection is tiny.
Google will either run this into the ground and be somewhat successful stealing customers from Samsung.
“Fitbit health data will not be used for Google ads.”
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Let’s see how long that lasts. Unless Google changed their business strategy to make profits off selling hardware, no one should believe that statement.
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Let’s see how long that lasts. Unless Google changed their business strategy to make profits off selling hardware, no one should believe that statement.
The only reason FitBit is being purchased for pennies on the dollar is because Apple Watch destroyed them. Fitbit used to be worth $15B and is being sold for about $2B.
Now, they are being acquired by a company that has all but failed in making compelling hardware.
Now, they are being acquired by a company that has all but failed in making compelling hardware.
