Luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer has abandoned Google’s “Wear OS” for its new Connected Calibre E5 smartwatch, opting instead for…
Tag: Apple Watch roadkill
Amazon pulls plug on Halo health and fitness trackers
Amazon in August 2020 introduced Amazon Halo, a new service – along with the Amazon Halo app with the Amazon Halo Band – dedicated…
Judge rules Swatch can use Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ ‘One more thing’ phrase
“One more thing,” Steve Jobs would say at the end of select Apple special media event keynote addresses, giving his cue for announcing…
Apple Watch increases market share dominance of global smartwatch market
Apple Watch maintained its solid number one position and increased its market share by 6 percentage points, helping shift the overall market closer…
EU approves Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, with conditions
EU antitrust regulators on Thursday approved with conditions Alphabet unit Google’s $2.1 billion bid for Fitbit after the company pledged…
Google, Fitbit deal said set to get EU approval with new concessions
Alphabet’s Google is set to win EU antitrust approval for its $2.1 billion purchase of fitness tracker maker Fitbit
Apple Watch killed Fitbit
Saying that a company with an agreement to be acquired for $2.1 billion was killed may sound like an exaggeration….
Fitbit is doomed: Why everything Google buys turns to garbage
Late last week, Google announced its intention to purchase Fitbit, the beleaguered health tracker manufacturer…
Fitbit: Apple Watch roadkill
Fitbit, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC…
Alphabet buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion
Fitbit, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC for $7.35 per share in cash..
Google owner Alphabet in bid to acquire Fitbit
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device maker Fitbit Inc…
Apple Watch is killing beleaguered Fitbit
Apple has deep pockets and a well-developed ecosystem of gadgets, software, and related services that makes simple price undercutting not a valuable enough proposition…
Beleaguered Fitbit plunges to record low on disappointing smartwatch sales
A day later, Fitbit CEO James Park struck a very different tone, telling investors in a press release…
One of every three smartwatches sold worldwide is an Apple Watch
Global smartwatch shipments grew a healthy rate of 48% year-on-year…
Fitbit launches cheaper smartwatch as Apple dominates market
Fitbit Inc launched its cheapest smartwatch on Wednesday to defend its position…
It’s prime time for Apple Watch
Smartwatches are most certainly no longer a fad…
NPD: Apple Watch is ‘the clear leader’ in strongly growing U.S. smartwatch market
U.S. smartwatch sales experienced strong growth with 16% of U.S. adults now owning a smartwatch…
Apple Watch and China are crushing Swatch
The situation is about to get worse…
Gartner: Worldwide wearable sales to grow 26% next year; Smartwatch shipments to total 74 million units in 2019
At the moment, the smartwatch market is bolstered by the relatively stable and higher average selling price of the Apple Watch…
Hands-on with Apple Watch’s Walkie-Talkie feature in watchOS 5 beta 2
After appearing as a placeholder in the initial iOS 12 developer beta, Walkie-Talkie is now functional…
Apple leads the way as wearable tech charge continues
The wearable band market is booming, with shipments up 35% year on year from Q1 2017…
Apple takes 59% of global wearables revenue on 21% unit share
Apple is doing Apple, all over again…
Beleaguered Fitbit’s ‘Ionic’ watch stumbles out of the gate
It was hard to overstate how important the fourth quarter was going to be for Fitbit…
Fitbit shares plunge on earning loss
Fitbit Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Monday after the wearable fitness-tracker maker’s quarterly results and outlook fell short…
Wireless carriers sold over 1/3rd of all Apple Watches in the U.S. last quarter
In the smartphone market, wireless carriers are easily the most important distribution channel for smartphone OEMs…
Apple’s line of smartwatches outsold the entire Swiss watch industry last quarter
Apple sold more than eight million watches in the final quarter of 2016, making it one of the largest watchmakers in the world…
Apple Watch sets new all-time record for wearables shipments; ‘Apple has won the wearables game’ – analyst
Apple has won the wearables game…
Apple Watch sales momentum is growing; unit sales now rival those of Macintosh
Apple Watch likely outsold Amazon Echo during the holidays despite Apple Watch selling for nearly 10x more money.
Sweaty fitness bands fall behind as Apple Watch outpaces sales
Consumers’ love affair with fitness bands looks to have run its course with smartwatches shaping up…
Apple product lineup is now too big to fit on a table but adds growth anyway
In 2010, before he became chief executive officer, Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook said all the company’s gadgets…
Fossil shares plunge as Apple Watch kills traditional watch market
Fossil Group’s latest financials show the watchmaker is clearly hurting from Apple’s encroachment…
The Apple Watch is winning
Apple Watch sold an estimated 11.6 million units in 2015 which wasn’t even a full year…
WSJ: Google’s Android Wear 2.0 less refined, falls short of Apple Watch in fitness
Android Wear 2.0 is much more like the latest Apple Watch software, but where it falls short…
Apple Watch had massive holiday quarter; took nearly 80% share of total smartwatch revenue
Apple set a new quarterly shipment record in Q4 2016, contributing to total smartwatch shipments exceeding…
J.D. Power Apple Watch findings provide stark contrast to media coverage
Apple’s product execution is invariably superior to its competition…
Apple Watch crushes wannabes in 2016 J.D. Power smartwatch satisfaction report
Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartwatches according to the J.D. Power 2016…
Pebble laying off 25% of workforce
Although Pebble was among the first to hit the smartwatch market with its line of Pebble devices…
Juniper: Apple Watch has already cornered the smartwatch market
Cupertino-based Apple has already cornered the market for smartwatches, according to new research…
Apple’s competition is going to have a tough year in 2016
In 2015 Apple grabbed a 94 percent share of the world’s global smartphone profits, sold the only profitable tablets and smartwatch, increased its Mac unit sales…
LG cancels its new Android stupidwatch after just six days on the market
After just six days on the market, LG has cancelled its latest smartwatch, the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE…
Watchmaker Fossil to buy Misfit fitness tracker maker for $260 million
Watchmaker Fossil Group Inc. has agreed to acquire startup Misfit Inc…
TAG Heuer stupidwatch demonstrates how poorly it understands Apple Watch
If only all of Apple’s competitors were this stupid…
