Thank you for your insight. I agree they need to find a way to offset the costs of storing so much data. But this specific feature is a base function of the product. When I purchase a calorie tracker or pedometer or heart rate monitor, I shouldn’t have to pay extra for that product to do its base function, which is to track those stats. This is not an extra feature like having recipes to cook, or mindfulness sessions, or access to videos. Those are extras that yes many customers enjoy and reasonably pay extra for. But then perhaps they should increase the cost of the premium memberships for the folks that use those extras and in turn, generate much more data that needs to be stored. Rather than dump that cost to folks who just want to use the tracker for it’s made for.
At this point, there’s no reason to buy a FitBit over any basic pedometer or heart rate monitor, because the FitBit app is now obsolete for non-premium users.
Also, Google is an advertising company that thrives off storing and reselling user data, I understand it gets expensive and they need to find a way to make it sustainable, but don’t feel bad about generating so much data for them, it’s the reason Google bought FitBit in the first place lol.
If I sound harsh in my posts, I apologize to all here. I loved my Charge 3 and it helped me get back in shape. This change is hurting me in more ways than one, and it’s frustrating to say the least.
