Re:Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and s...
by brlewis on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:22AM
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I'm happy to share my personal opinions on a lot of topics. This one I don't know about and don't have any more insight than you. Your question kind of touches on future product direction, and in that area I'll keep quiet, not even saying what I do or don't know.
Do you have any particular insight as to why Fitbit still doesn't support the Apple Watch at all?
I've made my choice of wearable (mostly due to forgetting to take my Charge HR off when going swimming) and don't particularly want to be in a fitness-tracker-akimbo situation again.
The primary value proposition of the Fitbit app (to me) is the social/competition aspect. MobileTrack clocks in anywhere between 2000-9000 steps/day short compared to my watch or my old Fitbit (as I don't carry my phone everywhere I go).
I guess this might not be totally tangential to the sibling thread that followed, as I guess the reason is my activity data isn't valuable enough to Fitbit as a business, which relies primarily on equipment sales?
Eitherway, I'd love to keep using the Fitbit app. The competitions, the badges, they're all great, and way better than the Apple Watch's social/competition functions. Unfortunately, the rest of the product lineup no longer appeals now that I have the AW.