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Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps

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Andrew Liszewski
Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps
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Withings has announced that new users will need a paid subscription to sync their health data with third-party apps like Apple Health or Google Health. Existing users are exempt from this change, maintaining free access to data syncing regardless of future hardware purchases.

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This highlights a growing trend of hardware companies moving toward subscription-based models for basic data interoperability, which may impact consumer choice.

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If you’re a new user of Withings’ fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it’s now going to cost you.

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