There are so many feature requests, and a lot of them can't be added because of time or not enough people to help write it. So why not make the device code open source? It would make it so that so many developers could help add features, "apps", and many other cool things to all the prouducts. Just look at Google, most of their programs are open source and look how much they have done! So why not make the device code open source? What harm could it do? How hard would it be? People could make the devices more secure, better, and more awesome. I'm guessing the code is C, Assembly, or some other very basic language, and im guessing multiple FitBit owners that are programmers could help. If the code goes on GitHub it would be easier to help instead of putting the code somewhere else like apple (This isn't a big part of my feature request, but it would be helpful), so many people could just go write a feature for the prouduct they have and then FitBit could be even better! This is how i believe the Open Source system should work:
- post each device as a seperate project on GitHub or some other git-related website
- have people submit features through Pull Requests
- if it is safe, let users test their own code, or just test it like you do before normal updates
- send the update out to everyone! (you may also want to have a Developer update channel so people can help test features)
and by doing something like this, people could help and take some work off of the developers.
So lets make FitBit open source! It would be amazing!
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