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In what fantasy past has cheap, personal activity tracking a) existed and b) been better?

Could it be better still? Sure, but I see no reason to assume that people are somehow lowering standards and not working on making it both cheaper and better all the time.

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The fact that a technology hasn't existed before is not an excuse to sell that technology with an implementation that doesn't work.

I am even OK with selling, but they should drop the usual PR lies and be honest. No business will ever do that though, consumers in general are not that smart/ have good critical thinking.

So I don't see an easy solution apart from governmental regulation. But you need a consistently stellar government for that.

Well we're discussing whether this constitutes "doesn't work [at all]" or "doesn't work [perfectly]."

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