Beddit 3.5 vs 3.0

For the benefit of those who are researching Beddit, according to "Dan," an Apple employee I visited with via the support chat on Apple.com:

"I have checked my resources here and found out that the feature set is mostly the same, but the 3.5 is the first release of the Beddit since the company was purchased by Apple."

"And while there have been improvements to the hardware (in design and quality) and software (in usability) it’s still essentially the same product functionally."

"The 3.0 Beddit was wrapped in cloth, while the 3.5 appears to have a soft plastic casing. Maintaining it’s thinness at just 2mm."

"Also, an additional information, it integrates better with Apple Watch for notifications, reminders, tips to improve sleeping health and assistance with sleep goals."

"And it integrates a bit more smoothly with the health app."

I mentioned that at the current time, Apple's Beddit app (version 3.5) is being hammered in user reviews in the app store, getting mostly 1-star reviews, while the Beddit app (version 3.0) has better reviews. The main complaint with 3.5 is that functionality has been removed from the product, such as an alarm.

The Apple employee responded by saying, "Those products that you see on the website are tested and checked up to the highest standards before being sold on the website itself."

That's a canned, fluff answer.

I didn't say people were saying it is defective; I'm sure the product works fine, it just doesn't do what previous versions did.

Here's the problem:

Places like Best Buy are still selling Beddit 3.0, and it is well enough reviewed.

However, the Apple employee says future versions of the Beddit app will never support it, so you are basically being abandoned by Apple for buying an Apple product.

The alternative, if you want to buy Apple, is to buy 3.5 and hope Apple grows the new app in ways that make 3.5 as good as 3.0 was.