Fitbit

If you wanted to check your steps, heart rate, quality of sleep, and some other stuff, then you needed to get a Fitbit. Why do you ask? If you were concerned about your health. Then you needed one of these.

History

Founded in 2007 in San Francisco, California and they made a variety of products. They filed an IPO in 2015 but the stock fell in 2016 up to 50% and it was in the midst of a reorganization.

Acquisitions

Since they began in  2007 they acquired several things

• 2015
  • Fitstar $17.8 Million
• 2016
  • Credit Card Company coin only for the intellectual and shut down the coin reward program.
• 2016
  • Pebble, Which we will talk about next, for 23 million
• 2017
  • Vector Watch SRL from Romania
• 2018
  • Twine Heath

However, in 2019, Alphabet, INC (parent company of Google) acquired Fitbit at $2.1 Billion.

Products

Some of the products they put out (all with Fitbit in front of it)

• Ace
• Inspire
• Inspire HT
• Charge 3
• Charge 4

Smart Watches

• Ionic
• Versa
• Versa 2

Scale

• Aria 2

Headphones

• Flyer, these are wireless

They have some clip on trackers as well

• Fit
• Ultra
• One
• Zip

Wristband

• Flex
• Flex 2
• Force
• Charge
• Charge HR
• Charge 2
• Alta
• Alta HR

Smart Watches

• Surge
• Blaze

Scale

• Aria

Effectiveness

Well, I never used one but my wife did and she liked it. It kept track of her steps and that is what she wanted. So that came in handy for her. If I ever wore it to see what type of sleep I get I could tell you right now I don’t need something to tell that my quality of sleep is the worst. I don’t sleep that well.