G+_Marlon Thompson Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Feel free to comment on the original post and story, I was going to but I am just so fed up of Nike's lame excuses Originally shared by TNW Nike explains why FuelBand won't be getting an Android app anytime soon. > http://tnw.co/19bWKH5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dan Lee (Dan M Lee) Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 The Next Web... How did their android plans work out ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 So true Dan Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_David Crow Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Eh, easy fix, I just won't give Nikemy money. There's plenty of competition from smaller companies making better-supported products. Thanks for the article! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Williamson Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 That article is pile of bull. "...a significant chunk of the Android market constitutes lower-end devices..." Wrong, 69.2% are running ICS and higher; 48.6 running Jelly Bean. These are not low end devices. That's ~486,000,000 devices running the latest "generation" of Android and perfectly capable of running any app Nike would build. "...they have an old HTC Wildfire with Android 2.3" I can guarantee that the number of people with that phone is less than the number of people using an iPhone 3g. This is a red herring. All they need to do is put on the packaging "Supports Android 4.0.3 and higher." Sure, you exclude 30% of the Android market, but that's better than 100%. The Truth Nike has the Apple CEO on the board and they are iOS bigots with no real notion of what the Android ecosystem is like. The Fuelband's competitors manage to build Android apps. Stop making excuses and admit that you're snobs and plain "don't like" Android. Just admit that you are part of Jobs' "thermonuclear war" on Google. If you're that honest, we'll believe you and this subject can be laid to rest. http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alex L. Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I'm the coder behind the unofficial Fuelband app for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alx5962.fuel) and what Nike said is complete BS as the 1st gen Fuelband is not using Bluetooth LE at all! Only Bluetooth 2.1 EDR so it could work without problem on Android (and I figured this out because I already have a basic bluetooth implementation working in my code). 2nd gen Fuelband needs BT LE and many Android devices run on Android 4.3 so no problem here at all too. So at the end it's just a marketing thing, not a technical issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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