Wearables
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been blamed for not bringing in new hardware innovation that would reinvent Apple, like Steve Jobs did.
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Health and fitness wearables giant Fitbit has announced the acquisition of Coin, the one-time Kickstarter darling that offered smart payment products including a connected card that could hold all of your different credit card information
Nokia has announced their acquisition of Withings, the French health and wearables company.
Fitbit's latest wearables, the $200 Blaze and the $130 Alta, are both hits, selling 1 million units each.
According to research firm IDC, Apple shipped 11.6 million Apple Watches in 2015, including 4.1 million in the final quarter.
According to research firm Canalys, Apple completely dominated the smart watch market in 2015, shipping over 12 million units.
Earlier this week, Swiss watchmaker Fossil announced the acquisition of fitness wearable startup Misfit for $260 million.
Apple has quickly taken second place in the fledgling wearables industry, just a couple of months after launching their first device, the Apple Watch.
Back in March, HTC and Under Armour announced a fitness wearable, the Grip, which it had planned for release sometime during the spring.
Fitbit has launched two new fitness trackers today, the Charge HR and Surge, both of which reflect your activity stats right from their enlarged displays.
Take a first look at the latest fitness tracker from French-based Withings
Google has confirmed the shut down of their Basecamp physical stores from which the company offered support for Google Glass headsets.
Google Glass, the wearable headset that allows users to basically attach Google services and a camera to eyeglass frames, will not see its consumer debut in 2014 as originally planned.
Although the device is still in its Explorer beta, Google has made the Google Glass headset available to all directly from the Google Play Store.
According to Forbes, Google will launch a new health service, dubbed Google Fit to collect your data from fitness trackers and smartphone/tablet apps.
The wearables market, quickly growing with new products seemingly launching daily from different OEMs, seems to have a few clear winners.
