Not long after official word started to circulate earlier this month that Fitbit had reached a deal to be acquired by Google for $2.1 billion, some users started promising to abandon the company and its wearables upon the news that the data-hungry search giant would now own it all.
Not every user, of course, proclaimed that they would leave Fitbit en masse thanks to the acquisition. But it does beg the question of how might the customer response have been different had Google in fact lost the bidding war to another tech firm that was in the hunt — Facebook, whose CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself met with Fitbit’s top executive at least three times trying to get a deal done.
BGR Top Deals:
- Apple’s brand new 16-inch MacBook Pro just got its first big discount from Amazon
- AirPods and AirPods Pro got their Black Friday discounts, and they’re flying off the shelves
Trending Right Now:
- Amazon just released a massive list of Cyber Monday 2019 deals – here’s everything you need to know
- Man dies after being licked by his dog
- ‘Avengers: Endgame’ had an alternate ending that would’ve completely changed the future of the MCU
Revealed: Facebook was the mystery buyer that lost the Fitbit bidding war to Google originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 16:32:19 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report