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Google is removing third-party apps and clock faces from all Fitbit watches in the EU (9to5google.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

By making it not install apps at all, even from them, it becomes the same as a toaster or microwave, for which nobody expects to be able to install third party apps because these are not devices that have a concept of "installing apps". Now they can claim these devices also don't have any concept of installing apps.