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To Withings defense: At least to my experience they have the most open API going on: https://developer.withings.com/

Other players in the field like Garmin are super restricted.

For my own use case i swapped to Health Connect (Android) though. Whatever might happen with that.

Of course i am also appalled about this change and also the pretty much non-response from the customer service in the forum about this, no good arguments have been mentioned.

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But there’s no need for the API at all. Scale to phone over BT then to Apple Health on the device. It’s the API that should be the add-on.

In some cases, sensor data requires further transformation/processing. If you do it in the app, others who decompile your app can copy the implementation; if you put it behind an API, it makes it much harder.

It’s a weight and a date/time stamp. There’s zero need for cloud processing.

Smart scales use BIA tech to figure out your bodyfat%, i think that's what most people use withings for, otherwise there are plenty of scales which can log your weight.

Even thought withings is garbage for bodyfat% estimation but plenty of noobs do not understand this.

You're correct, but BIA stuff can be calculated locally as well, so still no need to cloud-based services.

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