Seriously, Google cannot support products beyond ads, search, YT, and gmail. I feel like I have been beating this horse to death for years now. Don’t buy Google products and services. They will end support for them.
So… let me get this straight. Google sucks and Pixels are only sold in some countries, so their solution is to reduce Fitbit devices to those same countries?
This is foreboding. Could this be the start of either a rebrand of Fitbit or, worse, a culling of the line in favor of Pixel smartwatches?
Google, I swear if you fuck with my Fitbit I’m adding it to The List (right under Play Music and Inbox). I don’t want a smartwatch, I never wanted a smartwatch. I want my compact little step tracker that gives me a ton of metrics data.
The second Google bought them out should have been the moment you started to be on the lookout for a potential way out. It’s unfortunately really on brand for them. There’s not a lot that survives acquisition.
That’s a bit unfair. Waze is still going and unaffected by being acquired by Google. YouTube is obviously still going and has become a core part of Alphabet’s business.
For acquisitions that have strong existing user bases, they have a history of keeping them around. I’m surprised by this move, I can’t think of another example where they’ve killed a product with a large user base they’ve spent Billions on. Not that they’re killing FitBit, just reducing the countries it will be sold in.
Welcome to the Garmin Vivosmart family. 😀
Looks like I’ll be part of the family soon! The Vivosmart does look like what I’m after - small activity tracker for small wrist that provides me all my bodily metrics for my weird metrics-loving self so I can cross reference it with MyFitnessPal (calories and macros) and Daylio (mood).
Google wringing hands while looking at Garmin
It will probably be an incorporation of Fitbit into the Google ecosystem. Hell, the new Pixel watch is basically a Fitbit with some additional Google elements in it.
I came from the Sense 2 and it’s the same graphics for several screens as my previous watch. They definitely copied off the Fitbit purchase.
One month of Fitbit Premium doesn’t seem appropriate. At the very least, unlock full functionality for them if you’re not longer giving them a way to pay for it.
It’s just a family owned startup with a few employees, they don’t have the resources to sell devices in all those countries