Fitbit Accounts Are Being Replaced By Google Accounts (trustedreviews.com) 17
New Fitbit users will be required to sign-up with a Google account, from next year, while it also appears one will be needed to access some of the new features in years to come. Trusted Reviews reports: Google has been slowly integrating Fitbit into the fold since buying the company back in November 2019. Indeed, the latest products are now known as "Fitbit by Google." However, as it currently stands, device owners have been able to maintain separate accounts for Google and Fitbit accounts. Google has now revealed it is bringing Google Accounts to Fitbit in 2023, enabling a single login for both services. From that point on, all new sign ups will be through Google. Fitbit accounts will only be supported until 2025. From that point on, a Google account will be the only way to go. To aid the transition, once the introduction of Google accounts begins, it'll be possible to move existing devices over while maintaining all of the recorded data.
Glad I didn't buy into that fad (Score:5, Insightful)
As usual the people who bought into the cloud based proprietary solution get shafted and their personal data pored over by AI overlords
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At Google you are the product. Google can offer smart watches at lower cost than the competition because they are subsidizing the cost by selling your data.
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Which amazfit watch are you using? I'm in the market for a smartwatch right now that can work without phoning home.
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320kB RAM? Sigh. That's off by more than three orders of magnitude from what it should have. ...wow, it's also incorrect, the datasheet [espressif.com] shows it has 520kB.
and they used ch340 instead of pl2303
They don't even know the specs of their own hardware, the hardware they chose sucks, plus they're not even trying to do heart rate. Fail, fail.
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Sure, that would be enough for anyone, in the seventies.
I'm not sure exactly how much it really needs, but for a completely standalone device doing networking it should be more than what it's got. The chip supports external SRAM, too.
Acquire, Assimilate, Lose interest, Cancel Project (Score:2)
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Get your dirty Google ape fingers off my data! (Score:3)
In the mid 2000's I used two different blog-like web services, one for personal stuff and one for work-related, kind of an online resume. Eventually Google bought up both services. They were still under different accounts at first.
But Google grew jealous of FaceBook & Twitter's growth and decided to enter the social network business. Rather than only rely on ads to recruit new customers, all their existing accounts on their myriad services were bot-unified into one and everyone automatically had a social network profile and access. I found my personal info was one day mashed together with my work stuff! Embarrassment poured down. Bastards!
I'm sure they mentioned it in small-print in an "update to user terms" email or the like, but few customers are going to spot that in practice. Google decided to mash first and ask questions later.
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Separating your personal and work stuff with 2 separate cloud hosted accounts? Interesting concept...
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I think I registered the diff accounts under the same email, and Google picked up on this commonality to trick me into merging.
GOOD! (Score:2)
I was tired of having to explain to people that Google is sucking up all their info from fitness apps. Next time they will not come to me asking, "which fitness watch to get in order to get bombarded with the most intrusive advertisements," because I can just wear my "Google has all our information" shirt and point to it! Hooray for intrusive advertisements!
I'm getting those leg extensions [slashdot.org] to ward of my own personal insecurity that Google read from my Facebook page, it will definitely work, and is not par
So ... (Score:2)
It's still 100x better than Apple Health (Score:1)
The FitBit is only doing the same tracking that Google Maps or Waze already does. The unfortunate fact is that while FitBit is generally an awesome and useful fitness and sleep tracker (Apple is COMPLETELY USELESS when it comes to sleep and everyone knows it), I have not