This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

bdotdub asked:

Given your experience with the Jawbone up (of which I had similar), what are your thoughts about the Nike Fuelband? Bullish or Bearish?

I’d say bullish in general—Nike makes excellent products around its Nike+ line. I’ve been using Nike+ to track running since 2006, starting with an iPod Nano, then moving to the SportBand, and eventually switching recently to the SportWatch GPS (which I love). The service is great and without it I would probably never run.

That said, the FuelBand isn’t exactly what I’m looking for in this kind of product. It looks very nice (and significantly better than the UP), but it looks like Nike is targeting this more at “active” folks in action. You can set goals and try to achieve them, which is nice, but I want to track things like sleep habits as well, which the FuelBand doesn’t do. While it seems entirely possible they could add that feature later with software, I doubt they will given the branding of the device is highly skewed toward activity.

There are some huge pluses, though. Perhaps the biggest is that it uses Bluetooth to communicate with the app. Also, it has a built-in display and really nice design elements. I’ll definitely keep my eye on the FuelBand when it’s released and see what people think.