Wearables
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August 25, 2017
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This week: how people are using smartwatches and market expectations from Gartner.
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LinkedIn
November 2014, Nike decided to shut off all its efforts around wearables. June 2016, Jawbone went out of business. August 2017, GoPro announced it’s turning around. Are these three data points indicative of a wider trend around wearables?
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The Motley Fool
In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, host Dylan Lewis and senior tech specialist Evan Niu look at some industrywide trends with data from Strategy Analytics to see where the wearables industry is heading as of this most recent quarter. Find out what some of the biggest headwinds facing Fitbit are today and how companies like Apple are facing them with much less risk, where the wearable industry might go in the next five to 10 years, how Fitbit might possibly recover from here, and more.
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Business Insider
Apple realized consumers saw little value in running so many different apps on a watch, so with the second version of Apple Watch, it decided to focus largely on fitness tracking and text notifications. It turns out that those are the features smartwatch owners use the most.
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TechCrunch
Gartner is expecting to see growth of 16.7 per cent, year-over-year, across the global wearables market this year, which encompasses a variety of device types and form factors — from smartwatches to body-worn cameras and even head-mounted displays. Its forecast projects sales of 310.4M wearable devices worldwide this year, generating a total of $30.5BN in revenue — of which it expects $9.3BN to come from the smartwatch category specifically, where the Apple Watch currently leads over rivals like Samsung’s Gear smartwatch.
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