l{"id":1297903,"date":"2023-11-14T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesstelegraph.co.uk\/google-stopped-selling-its-fitbit-products-in-almost-30-countries-slashdot\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:45:00","slug":"google-stopped-selling-its-fitbit-products-in-almost-30-countries-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesstelegraph.co.uk\/google-stopped-selling-its-fitbit-products-in-almost-30-countries-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Stopped Selling Its Fitbit Products In Almost 30 Countries &#8211; Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- newscabal uk text -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8162386273903324\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3688094655\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-172241125\">\n<div id=\"text-172241125\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tFitbit is active in only 23 countries after <a href=\"https:\/\/cordcuttersnews.com\/google-stopped-selling-its-fitbit-products-in-almost-30-countries\/\">leaving Mexico, South Africa, and all Latin American countries<\/a>. &#8220;We communicated that we will stop selling Fitbit products in select countries in order to align our hardware portfolio to map closer to Pixel&#8217;s regional availability,&#8221; a Google spokesperson confirmed to Cord Cutters News via email. From the report: <i> The move marks a phasing out of Fitbit products after the Big Tech company acquired wearable company in 2021. Last month, Fitbit <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/product-documentation\/answer\/13823068?hl=en\">said<\/a> it would remove itself from Asian markets Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, along with European markets Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Slovakia. It&#8217;s possible Google is removing Fitbit and Nest from the European markets because they don&#8217;t have a Google Store support. If that changes, Fitbit products and Nest Aware subscriptions could return. New products like the Pixel Watch could also arrive for the first time. <\/i> &#8220;We remain committed to our customers and have not made any changes that impact the existing Fitbit devices they already own. 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