Re:Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
by CydeWeys on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:42PM
(#21379425)
I've found that Garmin has higher quality hardware than Fitbit anyway. Every Fitbit I ever had ended up being replaced multiple times under warranty because the hardware was very low quality (or badly designed) and broke.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
by jschwartzi on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:00PM
(#21379655)
I wore my Charge 2 scrambling and rock climbing, scratched the shit out of the screen, dropped it, wore it to Tough Mudder, and somehow after 3 years of that it still just works.
Garmin hardware is great, but their software is terrible.
My friends and I had been using Garmin cycle computers and watches for a while, but lately we've been moving to Suunto and Wahoo devices - entirely due to software bugs.
My Fenix 5 watch freezes up 2 or 3 times a month. The screen will be frozen at a particular time for 5-10 minutes and it won't respond to any button presses, not even to turn it off. And they don't sync to the app without an internet connection. And the cycle computers freeze up on boot trying to download upgrades, even when you're in the midle of nowhere and haven't had an internet connection in days. Lots and lots of little annoyance bugs like those.
Definitely not designed for offline use, in any case.
Re:Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
by dkonofalski on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:26PM
(#21379978)
Same here. Multiple iterations of the same product and every one of them broke. While it was nice that a few of them were replaced under warranty by FitBit, the fact that every one of them needed to be replaced is asinine.