Extracting My Data from the Microsoft Band

Re:Extracting My Data from the Microsoft Band by andsosayallofus on Friday December 19, 2014 @01:59AM (#8771365)

Where's the money here? It's not a subscription based service, so what financial sense does it make to dump this data straight to a server?

I can't imagine there's complex data processing being done that a smartphone can't handle, so I assume the data is being sent back because it's somehow useful or valuable to Microsoft.. but how?

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Re:Extracting My Data from the Microsoft Band by jzwinck on Friday December 19, 2014 @03:01AM (#8771440)

The network effect. Fitbit has a huge advantage right now because the user base is so large. A lot of people use its social features to compete with their friends, office mates, etc. This encourages more people to buy the hardware to participate.

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Re:Extracting My Data from the Microsoft Band by orjan on Friday December 19, 2014 @02:29AM (#8771389)

From a user perspective, it makes sense to upload the data so that you're not constrained to your phone for viewing your info. And Microsoft gets a good use case for Azure - I imagine they might use this in promoting Azure services.

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