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Fitbit Exec Disses Smartwatches
Fitbit Exec Disses Smartwatches As the market is flooded with more smartwatches promising to do a myriad of tasks, is there still a place for the plain old fitness band? Woody Scal, Fitbit’s chief revenue officer, says definitely “yes.” In an interview with Bloomberg Business, Scal made a case for why the smartwatch won’t be making the fitness band obsolete anytime in the n...
Report Claims Apple Ships 3.6M Smartwatches
Report Claims Apple Ships 3.6M Smartwatches Usually the first to toot its own horn, Apple has remained mum on exactly how many units of its smartwatch have been sold since the device went on sale earlier this year. Now a new report sheds some light on how well the Apple Watch has done in its first few months on the market. A new report from analysts at International Data Corp. claims that Apple sh...
Apple Watch Could Grab 40% of Market by 2020
Apple Watch Could Grab 40% of Market by 2020 The latest report on the Apple Watch holds potentially ominous news for the makers of both fitness bands and traditional timepieces. Could the smartwatch gobble up a major slice of the marketing pie by 2020? A new report from Business Insider’s research arm BI Intelligence predicts that smartwatches in general and the Apple Watch in particular are...
Jawbone Sues Fitbit Over Trade Secrets
Jawbone Sues Fitbit Over Trade Secrets Let’s face it—the Jawbone and the Fitbit are pretty similar in looks, function and price. Both are wearable devices that track the user’s activities including steps, calories and sleep. Now Jawbone is claiming that the Fitbit is a little too similar and is taking its case to court. In the third lawsuit filed in the last two months against Fi...