| ▲ | hopelite 5 days ago | |
Your question is “what is the deal with Amazfit?” There is an implied question there, but you may want to get a bit more specific. The deal seems to be that you get a really good fitness watch for a fraction of the cost of Android and Apple offerings, if your statement and my first review of their website is accurate. | ||
| ▲ | 1dom 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
> The deal seems to be that you get a really good fitness watch for a fraction of the cost of Android and Apple offerings Fair point, I elaborated a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854032 You're right in your assessment. My "what's the deal" was more asking "how did such a small unknown-to-me company do this with similar or better results to the worlds largest hardware/software companies (Apple/Google) in 2015/2016?" It sounds like they did it with even more specific and low level hardware and software, which makes it even more impressive. Like I said, my bip did GPS, bluetooth notifications, hardrate tracking and most of the other things an iWatch did, but it had 20x the battery life and cost 1/5 of the price. I find this an unbelievable achievement that I don't understand, and it's rarely talked about. | ||