• Carighan Maconar
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    687 months ago

    This is just shutting down an already outdated API. Devs should be moving off of it, and now it has a year out set for full removal instead of just being deprecated.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      But in typical Google fashion, the replacement is inferior and doesn’t have the same features

      However, there is no replacement for the Goals API that lets Google Fit users set “how many steps and heart points they want to aim for each day.”

      • @[email protected]
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        46 months ago

        Come on now, that’s not just a Google problem and you know it, no need to shit on Google for something damn near every tech company does. Google does their fair share of shitty things, this isn’t really one of them.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        Health connect doesn’t set your step count goals, because what it does in the back end (because that’s what it is, the back end API) is set a way to read and write that data.

        The front end, Google Fit, also connects to health connect on the back end. And the Fit app is not given a shutdown here, just the API it also uses in the back end.

        I suspect Google will stop developing Fit, as they kind of already have. However, all these varieties of other apps out there (Fitbit, Withings Health Mate, Samsung Health, MyFitnessPal, etc) can use health connect data, and do allow you to set goals. They use the same data, and now are more interoperable with Health Connect than they were with the Fit API.

      • @[email protected]
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        127 months ago

        Wait until you realize Microsoft actually cares only because they have already analyzed and predicted that this would hurt their bottom line.

        • @[email protected]
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          126 months ago

          History is full of companies who went under because they didn’t analyze and predict what would hurt their bottom line…

      • FalseMyrmidon
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        66 months ago

        AWS also rarely turns off services that customers are using going so far as to support customers using outdated services for years. Of the major cloud providers only Google does this.

    • @[email protected]
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      197 months ago

      Yes, worst clickbait title I’ve seen in a while. Health Connect was announced 2 years ago…