[Arech]

TBH, such a low price for so many working (!) features is an amazing achievement if not subsidized! What bothers me here, however, is...a provenance. Let me guess, it asks from your smartphone access to your location, contacts, calendar, SMS archive, email, medical records and political views and attitude towards CCP and then does some shady syncs with .cn servers "just to keep you data safe in case a meteor hits you"... Sad.

ADDED: Oh, seems like some people like to pretend that the results of "some other" companies getting this information are totally, totally the same.

[rikafurude21]

Why is it so hard for americans to accept that china makes great tech without coping about "le CCP spyware!" - it seems so absurd, like why would the CCP want to know the heart rate of the type of guy who buys a 16 pound smartwatch? Why dont americans create 16 pound smartwatches?

[phantomathkg]

Because APT will use any devices to infiltrate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSaix1C-UMI

[sincerely]

>Why dont americans create 16 pound smartwatches?

Because labor is much more expensive in America. This is not a mystery

[AndyMcConachie]

Because sinophobia, or put in a more crass way, racism, imperialism, and patriotism.

Why should I care if the Communinst Party of China is spying on me? They can't get at me. I have no connection to China. I have no property there and don't know anyone there. What are they going to do to me?

Bottom line is that everyone on the planet should be concerned with their own government's intelligence angencies more than any others. It's the people who can get at you in meatspace that you need to worry about.

[jgalt212]

China hopes that if they sell enough some will end up on the wrists of military or intelligence personnel, or more likely the family members of such people.

[edent]

If you'd read my blog post, you'd see that it functions just fine without access to those permissions.

You're also welcome to disassemble the APK to show where it is sending data to.

But, as I say, it works just find with an Open Source alternative if you prefer that.

[danielPort9]

Just like any other Apple Watch. Don’t see the difference between them and CCP (probably because I’m not American)

[FirmwareBurner]

The difference between Apple and the CCP is that CCP is the one running the slave labor to make widgets, and Apple is the one paying for it and puts the sticker "Designed in California" to wash it off.

[andrepd]

Implying all US electronics don't ask from your smartphone access to your location, contacts, calendar, SMS archive, email, medical records and political views and attitude towards the US and Israel and then does some shady syncs with .com servers "just to keep you data safe in case a meteor hits you"... x)

[neurostimulant]

This device seems to be supported by gadgetbridge (nightly), so that should at least take care of your privacy concern: https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/wearables/moyoung/

[FpUser]

>"Let me guess, it asks from your smartphone access to your location, contacts, calendar..."

Let me try to translate: I do not know fuck all about what it really asks but will let sinophobia and hypocrisy out in full colors regardless

[rvnx]

Sounds like any Samsung or Google watch

[Arech]

Please don't pretend you don't understand that risks of Google/Apple maybe even Samsung getting the information is just "a tiny bit different".

[RobotToaster]

> Let me guess, it asks from your smartphone access to your location, contacts, calendar, SMS archive, email, medical records and political views

Like every app made by a US corporation does?

And before someone cries "whataboutism", I'm genuinely curious why as someone who isn't Chinese, and has no intention of visiting China, I should be more worried about the CPC than the CIA.

[otabdeveloper4]

I'm not an American.

I'd trust the CCP a million times more than Google or Apple.

[oezi]

Trust with what? Why would you trust any government except your own to look out for you?