Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don't get updated will stop syncing

Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don’t get updated will stop syncing

  • CyborganismEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    Great. Another Google service gets shut down. Why even bother with using any Google service at this point?

    • fishpen0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      2 months ago

      Well this one is odd only because for end users it’s kind of seamlessly moved to the Health Connect service. The issue here is the new thing has a shittier dev experience and less features.

      This all stems from how internally they only reward new products and not features or maintenance on existing products. So entire teams just spin up copies of existing products instead of working on a V2 overhaul in-place

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        201·
        2 months ago

        The issue here is the new thing has a shittier dev experience and less features.

        I’m so tired of it happening that I avoid investing time and data into Google products now. YouTube Music is worse than Google (Play) Music, Gmail is worse than Inbox, YouTube Music is worse than Google Podcasts… The list goes on.

    • Chuymatt@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’ve just stopped using anything google, as it’ll be killed soon enough anyway.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      It’s very sad that polar products don’t work. Their heart rate monitor bands are the absolute gold standard for activity heart rate monitoring. Correlate the best with professional equipment out of any monitor including the apple watch.

      That being said, amazing initiative. An open source api bridge like this and openRGB make everyone’s life 10x easier!