How data screwups may decide the fitness tracker wars
The Band is sounding better all the time.
"Every relationship has a breaking point -- the one moment when you say enough and move on forever. Apply that axiom to the fitness tracking industry and the breaking point is when your favorite wearable loses your data.
"In recent months, I've suffered data losses about a dozen times across two vendors. If you use a fitness tracker, there's nothing worse than going for a run, hitting 20,000 steps and watching the app give you credit and then refresh and lose the information. It's like the run never happened."
The only time I've lost data is switching out bands. Mainly because the new band can't couldn't start with my step count from the old one. (That may have been fixed with adding a function to MS Health.) Other then that, it's been rock solid. Syncing has had problems, but no data loss.
The Band is sounding better all the time.
"Every relationship has a breaking point -- the one moment when you say enough and move on forever. Apply that axiom to the fitness tracking industry and the breaking point is when your favorite wearable loses your data.
"In recent months, I've suffered data losses about a dozen times across two vendors. If you use a fitness tracker, there's nothing worse than going for a run, hitting 20,000 steps and watching the app give you credit and then refresh and lose the information. It's like the run never happened."
The only time I've lost data is switching out bands. Mainly because the new band can't couldn't start with my step count from the old one. (That may have been fixed with adding a function to MS Health.) Other then that, it's been rock solid. Syncing has had problems, but no data loss.
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