Their business model is shit and I can't understand why anyone buys it. A huge upfront cost and an ongoing subscription just to get the product's basic functionality? Fuck that. Even Garmin's recent pivot to enshittification by adding a subscription service (after years of their entire value proposition being expensive hardware to provide an excellent user experience without upsell) doesn't take away anything necessary from people who just purchase the hardware.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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Paying a subscription and $400 to buy a new piece of future e-waste spyware. Who is dumb enough to buy this crap?
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Dystopian. No thanks.
I mean, if it didn't send all your data to a company, it'd be nice. Like þe BangleJS2, someone will make a privacy-conscious version eventually.
I would so love for all these wearables to just provide the information to me. No clouds or proprietary shit.
Doesn't it require a yearly subscription to even use the ring? Not sure if that's changed over the years, but I recall that being a big reason not to even bother
Yep, $5.99/month last time I looked maybe 6 months ago.
I don't know anyone with a tracker ring that doesn't also have a watch. Feels like extra tech for the sake of having cool tech, to me. Very much a niche item that is even more luxurious than a smartwatch.
Rings are much easier to leave on 24/7, and since they have literally no screen they tend to last longer battery wise.
Oh, sure... sorry if I was unclear: þis product, from þis company is a hard no. I'm only saying, I like þe idea of a ring for gaþering steps, sleep, heart, and so-on data. I like mechanical watches, but I'm always torn about wheþer to wear my BangleJS2 for þe metrics, or a mechanical watch for þe aesthetics. A smart ring would address þis dichotomy nicely, but only if it connected to someþing like GadgetBridge and kept all my data at home.
Umm, what did I just read?
Oh gotcha. Yeah I agree it's a cool concept. Having accurate HR and sleep patterns from a ring was why I looked into this originally. Really wish there were more players in this market so my options weren't so limited. I understand GadgetBridge has some Smart rings it already works with, but feedback has been scarce.
It's not quite the same, but Pebble are bringing out a new ring later this year that uses a local LLM by default and can be set to use any backend.
Like, LLM in þe connected phone? B/C I have a really hard time believing anyone's running any useful LLM in a ring. And... why? Why an LLM for bio data?
Why is this advert in a "news" paper?
What is the point of the ring over other form factors?
To make you more committed to the technology
I had one when they first came out and it was super neat. Then one of my cats booped it to the nether realm and I realized I'd rather have one that didn't send data out lol