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My Fitbit Buzzed and I Understood Enshittification

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My Fitbit started buzzing at me a year ago. “It looks like you’re exercising.” Yeah. No shit. I’m walking. I know I’m exercising. I’m the one doing it. I didn’t ask for this notification. I don’t want this notification. Nobody wants to be told what they’re already doing. And yet, here we are. I was annoyed for about thirty seconds. Then I started thinking about what it must be like to be a product developer inside Fitbit. That’s the advantage of walking as exercise. Time to think. You’re a product owner. You have a feature to ship: “Automatic Exercise Detection.” It’s a reasonable…

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