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Fossil is quitting smartwatches (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Fossil is quitting smartwatches::Fossil is going to stop making smartwatches. It was one of the most prolific companies creating Wear OS watches.

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[–] pete_the_cat 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I had a few FitBits before this and they were great, the battery lasted like 4-5 days. The software on this has gotten better, I think it may last a full day now, but still, that's pretty bad. Also, I get tons of spam texts on my watch which is just flat out annoying.