>You may think you have a product but you don't.
I absolutely agree with everything.
Here is the thing, total side topic - but Fitbit's product is really excellent!
The packaging of the PCBs, the operating system, the tech, it's all really impressive.
I know that means nothing in the larger scope, Google bought them for their data and mining potential.
But the product is actually really cool. It appears to be simple, but when you deep drive, you can run your own javascript code on your own device, and serialize the data with packages like CBOR for export... This was done a micro that's running an RTOS made in C on an extremely constrained resources device.
I've always been impressed with Fitbit.
I absolutely agree with everything.
Here is the thing, total side topic - but Fitbit's product is really excellent!
The packaging of the PCBs, the operating system, the tech, it's all really impressive.
I know that means nothing in the larger scope, Google bought them for their data and mining potential.
But the product is actually really cool. It appears to be simple, but when you deep drive, you can run your own javascript code on your own device, and serialize the data with packages like CBOR for export... This was done a micro that's running an RTOS made in C on an extremely constrained resources device.
I've always been impressed with Fitbit.