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Google is seriously buying FitBit now? Didn't the number of devices they were selling peak in like 2016?
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Oct 28, 2019 18:01
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Oct 28, 2019 18:14
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yeah, weird. why the heck would google want to buy the smart watch company with the largest install base that has a huge amount of consumer data?
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Oct 28, 2019 18:15
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google nest Fitbit by alphabet
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Oct 28, 2019 18:18
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Shaggar posted:yeah, weird. why the heck would google want to buy the smart watch company with the largest install base that has a huge amount of consumer data? There was a brief window of opportunity when existing GPS fitness watches (Garmin) were too expensive and couldn't track steps and smartwatches didn't have GPS/heartrate monitoring but it's over now. That's ignoring the possibility that the whole fad will die out in the first place. mystes fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Oct 28, 2019 |
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Oct 28, 2019 18:21
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seems more defensive than anything else - google has an interest in keeping apple from sewing up the entire wearable/health monitor, even if it means losing money
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Oct 28, 2019 18:35
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too bad they can’t help but kill any brand they purchase within two years
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Oct 28, 2019 18:36
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The existence of FitBit may already help prevent some people from switching to Apple just for the Apple Watch, and there's no need to buy them out for that. Also, if Google does buy them they're probably going to kill their products by trying to make them into higher end watches.
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Oct 28, 2019 18:40
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mystes posted:The existence of FitBit may already help prevent some people from switching to Apple just for the Apple Watch, and there's no need to buy them out for that. Also, if Google does buy them they're probably going to kill their products by trying to make them into higher end watches. give them some credit. google has many exciting and varied ways to kill the Fitbit brand
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Oct 28, 2019 18:49
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mystes posted:Because they're the new microsoft and they'll just keep launching different watch products in hopes that one can successfully compete with Apple? I guess on paper FitBit looks good because of their market share but IMO they're screwed because the niche they did best (single function fitness tracker watches) is going to die. that was sarcasm. they want the user data because google is an advertising company.
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Oct 28, 2019 19:16
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when google does something if you want to know why just as yourself "how does this help them sell ads?"
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Oct 28, 2019 19:21
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Shaggar posted:when google does something if you want to know why just as yourself "how does this help them sell ads?" was going to try and use google glass, the 100s of different chat apps, and nest as counter examples but then i realized, all these vaporware products exist on some meta-level to allow google to portray itself as a tech company and not an ad company, which does in fact help them sell ads
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Oct 28, 2019 19:28
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pebble time for gents, and peble time round for lassies ... epic watches, best ever. Case closed. Bring em back Sundar!
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Oct 28, 2019 19:47
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Fitbit is already a walking corpse. they will die regardless of whether google buys them. 5 years ago their stock was at $48/share. last week it was at $4.50. they have no profits and everyone that wants a Fitbit already bought one. they blew their wad on their Apple Watch knockoff and it didn’t seem to have done anything.
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Oct 28, 2019 23:52
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Plank Walker posted:was going to try and use google glass, the 100s of different chat apps, and nest as counter examples but then i realized, all these vaporware products exist on some meta-level to allow google to portray itself as a tech company and not an ad company, which does in fact help them sell ads chat content is easily monetizable and nest et. al. is litterrally allowing them to spy on you in your home. goog glass was definitely fluff tho
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Oct 29, 2019 00:00
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The Management posted:Fitbit is already a walking corpse. they will die regardless of whether google buys them. 5 years ago their stock was at $48/share. last week it was at $4.50. they have no profits and everyone that wants a Fitbit already bought one. they blew their wad on their Apple Watch knockoff and it didn’t seem to have done anything.
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Oct 29, 2019 00:14
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meanwhile Apple watches are $200 and all my millennial friends and I are buying them for our boomer parents for the fall detection alone, if they haven’t bought them already themselves. ‘grats on selling death notification devices to America’s shittiest generation, timb
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Oct 29, 2019 00:19
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Scott Forstall posted:meanwhile Apple watches are $200 and all my millennial friends and I are buying them for our boomer parents for the fall detection alone, if they haven’t bought them already themselves. now if more insurance companies would subsidise them imagine what they could do
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Oct 29, 2019 00:47
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I was going to say based on my experience with Fitbit, there's no way it can actually get worse but then a second later I realised it definitely 
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Oct 29, 2019 11:33
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Shaggar posted:chat content is easily monetizable and nest et. al. is litterrally allowing them to spy on you in your home. goog glass was definitely fluff tho google glass endgame was constantly beaming ads straight into your eyes as you go about your daily life, while also uploading everything you look at to google’s servers. they killed it because it became clear the world wasn’t ready for this yet.
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Oct 29, 2019 12:34
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and also the reality of a two hour battery life even if it did none of that stuff
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Oct 29, 2019 15:47
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Soricidus posted:google glass endgame was constantly beaming ads straight into your eyes as you go about your daily life, while also uploading everything you look at to google’s servers. they killed it because it became clear the world wasn’t ready for this yet. goog glass could never actually work tho cause it requires too much power. the always on cameras and mics would also be a data slurping dream
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Oct 29, 2019 15:48
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Shaggar posted:goog glass could never actually work tho cause it requires too much power. the always on cameras and mics would also be a data slurping dream that's why "always on camera that knows the best time to take pictures" got made into a product [then killed 2 years later]
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Oct 29, 2019 16:02
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qirex posted:that's why "always on camera that knows the best time to take pictures" got made into a product [then killed 2 years later] i guarantee you that thing was just triggered by a math.random() timer
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Oct 31, 2019 21:32
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thats cool
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Oct 31, 2019 23:21
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my battery won't last two hours, but i can pretend to tickle pikachu
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Oct 31, 2019 23:27
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infernal machines posted:my battery won't last two hours, but i can pretend to tickle pikachu listen up: buy some bitcoin now. Sell it when it gets to like $20 grand. I know it sounds crazy, but it will get there. Don't put them in MTGOX. Trust me. Also: Put a shitload of money on DONALD TRUMP in 2016 on a website that will be called "PredictIt". I know, I know, it's insane - but just do it.
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Oct 31, 2019 23:41
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lol. anyway, a bunch more moto razr renders leaked, supposedly "official". ars asks: okay, but can they build it
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Nov 1, 2019 00:14
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i forgot to mention i got a pixel 4 xl here is my unboxing video https://i.imgur.com/aYL5cZ6.mp4
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Nov 1, 2019 07:26
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who needs one telephone when you can have three?bull3964 posted:And there it is, google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion.
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Nov 1, 2019 17:34
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Endless Mike posted:who needs one telephone when you can have three? what is wrong with this person's brain?
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Nov 1, 2019 17:38
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he's just a free thinker going his own way 
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Nov 1, 2019 19:01
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infernal machines posted:what is wrong with this person's brain? theres such a long tail of odd details sprinkled in along with the compulsive spending that if it all turned out to be a toblerone triangular situation id believe it but its been such a slow low key burn i know in my heart that its real and sad
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the tiktok nut 3
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Nov 2, 2019 10:23
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samsung shutting down the custom cpu team in Austin and San Jose, it seems: https://www.kxan.com/news/local-news/samsung-laying-off-290-employees-in-austin/ future exynos designs will be off the shelf arm cores, I guess.
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Nov 2, 2019 14:08
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did they ever see any benefit to that?
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Nov 2, 2019 14:34
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don't think arm really leaves that much low-hanging fruit where they do offer a soc of suitable size/specs to what is needed, so probably wasted effort.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:don't think arm really leaves that much low-hanging fruit where they do offer a soc of suitable size/specs to what is needed, so probably wasted effort. Apple has disproven this. arm’s cores are not very parallel, having limited execution width, out-of-order capability, and optimization buffers. the ISA is capable of much more, but arm has a fairly conservative microarchitecture.
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The Management posted:Apple has disproven this. arm’s cores are not very parallel, having limited execution width, out-of-order capability, and optimization buffers. the ISA is capable of much more, but arm has a fairly conservative microarchitecture. apples socs and cores are way way larger than arms though, just saying that i don't think there's that much on the table at the scale arm does cores at (i assume arm at least has bigger stuff on the roadmap, but i expect that apple will keep being the most audacious designers for the foreseeable future). possibly samsung should have attempted something similarly ambitious, but they were mostly playing in the same ballpark as arm, and thus achieved nothing terribly interesting.
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