15 Facts About Fitbit

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Fitbit is an American consumer electronics and fitness company.

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In 2019, Fitbit was the fifth largest wearable technology company in shipments.

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3.

Fitbit has sold more than 120 million devices and has 29 million users in over 100 countries.

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On March 5,2015, Fitbit acquired fitness coaching app developer Fitstar for $17.

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5.

In May 2016, Fitbit acquired a wearable payment platform from smart credit card company Coin.

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In February 2018, Fitbit announced a partnership with Adidas to release an Adidas-branded Fitbit Ionic; it was released on March 19,2018.

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In January 2021, Fitbit was acquired by Google and absorbed into its hardware division.

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In 2014, Fitbit began offering activity trackers, along with a website and a mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows 10 Mobile This allows the trackers to sync to devices such as mobile phones via Bluetooth, or to a Bluetooth-equipped computer running Windows or MacOS.

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9.

Certain Sense, Versa, Ionic, and Charge products support Fitbit Pay, which is a digital wallet that uses near field communication to make payments at point of sale.

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In 2016, Fitbit ranked 37th of 50 for most innovative companies for that year.

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On February 20,2014, Fitbit worked with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall the Fitbit Force because some users experienced allergic reactions to the materials used in the product.

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12.

Fitbit responded to criticism by making all such data private by default and requesting that search engines remove indexed user profile pages from their databases.

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13.

Fitbit told police that a man had assaulted her around midnight.

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14.

The Fitbit revealed that the woman was active throughout the night, and the Fitbit surveillance analysis demonstrated the woman had not gone to bed as she stated to the police, proving that the woman had lied to the police.

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15.

However, Connie's Fitbit tracker showed that she was at the gym at the time Richard told police his wife was shot.

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