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Fitbit is damaged goods. Just read https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Ionic/Would-you-buy-Fitbit-I... - I own one of these along with many unsatisfied customers. Google is buying technical debt.

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The Ionic was a misstep, but damning the entire brand because of one bad product feels like painting with too broad a brush. Like another user said, I love my Versa. Liked but didn't love the Blaze when I had that. I'll be searching for a wearable from a different company that is comparable to the Versa if this deal goes through.

Same customer support though.

I love my Fitbit Versa, every product has unsatisfied customers.

Anyhow, I was actually hoping Microsoft would buy them, and make an assistant agnostic device that could run Google, Alexa or Cortana.

Versa has a terrible design (flaw#) when it lets moisture seep in in any amount.

Not enough people wanted Microsoft's in-house product when it existed, and it was even back then better than the competition in many ways.

I'm guessing they've learned their lesson after buying nokia...

> Google is buying technical debt.

They are buying (a lot of) data and a list of customers. They don’t care about the app code.

you're still not thinking in the 21st century mindset: the data is what has the value here, not some mediocre optional hardware. read the thread - people are recommending just the app, which still fulfills the purpose of "hoover up valuable data"

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