Whoop’s $71 band doesn’t cut first-year costs in Australia; the subscription still does the heavy lifting.
Key takeaways
- Whoop is making its wristband cheaper to buy in Australia, but not cheaper to use in year one.
- That is the tension behind the company’s new pricing move. Whoop 5.0 now costs AU$99 ($71) as standalone hardware in Australia, while the required subscription...
- Whoop’s hardware split makes the subscription harder to hide
- The old Whoop bargain was psychologically clean: commit to at least a year, get the band “for free,” and pay for the service. That made sense when Whoop’s screenle...
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