On: Fitbit is now officially part of Google

[halfdan]

This, and they want to hire the talent that built the product. If Fitbit were already a sinking ship for too long most senior folks would have left.

[at-fates-hands → halfdan]

Great point.

Hard to continue developing a product when the most talented people in the company have gone elsewhere already. They need the human capital in order to make sure it stays afloat and they get the requisite knowledge transfer.

Then its anybody's guess what will happen. Google's track record of buying technology and then doing something better with it is not encouraging at all.

[triceratops → at-fates-hands]

> Google's track record of buying technology and then doing something better with it is not encouraging at all.

Err...what? Earth, Maps, Docs, Waymo, Android, YouTube, WebRTC, Flights, Deepmind all come from acquisitions.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

[kiwijamo → triceratops]

They haven't done much better with many of these. And I suspect these would also have succeeded independently of Google.