John Reilly

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Good, Jess, and you?

Yeah, so it's about just coming up on two weeks that I've been kind of testing it out.

And I've been using the Whoop before that for the last six or seven months.

I think you've been using it quite a bit longer than I. But yeah, look, I've always been eager to see how Google would enter this marketplace.

And having the Fitbit brand is a very, very strong recognition in terms of the fitness enthusiasts.

I have to hold my hands up and say, I am not.

But I've always been kind of

intrigued by what Whoop was giving me for my sleep score and just my general kind of day-to-day activities.

So the Fitbit Air definitely piqued my interest.

Using it now for two weeks, I definitely can see where people are getting the Whoop Killer terminology from, but there's still a lot to play for between the two of them.

Yeah, no, exactly.

It's maybe almost half the width of a band.

I've kind of got the, I think they're calling it Indigo, or there's kind of like a baby blue color version of the band.

And now that's obviously quite a showy color, but it's still more discreet in terms of its overall footprint on my wrist than the Whoop was.

Yeah, as you said, they're screenless fitness trackers, really.

I think, you know, if you know a Whoop, you know what this is, in a sense, and you know that it's kind of just hit the market.

So I think Whoop kind of are scared, and the fact they've got that this Fitbit band is the power of Google behind this.

They've got a bit of an uphill battle against... It's just good to have competition, really.

It is.