Why Whoop 5 Design Feels Intentionally Malicious
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A deep dive into the new Whoop 5 hardware reveals a pattern users are calling out. It appears that the form factor shift, which renders previous generations of bands unusable, wasn't merely a byproduct of a new thickness. The analysis suggests this was a trade-off made to enable marketing the device
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Like you're talking about like just enough that the bands don't work. That's the other thing. They made it so that none of the previous bands work from the last generation and it feels intentional. There was no need. They could have made it the exact same form factor with the new thickness, which would have been thicker, but then they couldn't say it's smaller. So, I think their trade-off was actually not as malicious as it feels as a Whoop customer. Like that none of their stuff works. I have to put a spacer in the underwear to make it match the size because like this thing is not as wide or not as like long this
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