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04-22-2014, 02:23 AM
Nike Is Positioning Fuelband Software for Wearables Like the iWatch
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When news broke late Friday that Nike laid off part of its Fuelband fitness tracker team (http://mashable.com/2014/04/18/nike-killing-fuelband-wearables/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and has plans to abandon the corresponding hardware, some considered the an**uncement a failure in the wearable tech space (http://www.cnet.com/news/nike-fires-fuelband-engineers-will-stop-making-wearable-hardware/)
The news raised questions that, during a time when wearables are on an uptick (http://mashable.com/2014/02/13/wearable-device-shipments/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), Nike (http://mashable.com/category/Nike?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) was making the unusual move to slash its hardware team and curtail plans to make a**ther fitness tracker. Some saw it as a proactive effort to avoid being squashed by the likely growth of smartwatches (http://mashable.com/2014/02/13/wearable-device-shipments/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) that bake both fitness tracking and smart **tifications (email and phone calls) into one device.
SEE ALSO: Animated iWatch Concept Is the Most Realistic You've Ever Seen (http://mashable.com/2014/01/22/animated-iwatch-concept/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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When news broke late Friday that Nike laid off part of its Fuelband fitness tracker team (http://mashable.com/2014/04/18/nike-killing-fuelband-wearables/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and has plans to abandon the corresponding hardware, some considered the an**uncement a failure in the wearable tech space (http://www.cnet.com/news/nike-fires-fuelband-engineers-will-stop-making-wearable-hardware/)
The news raised questions that, during a time when wearables are on an uptick (http://mashable.com/2014/02/13/wearable-device-shipments/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), Nike (http://mashable.com/category/Nike?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) was making the unusual move to slash its hardware team and curtail plans to make a**ther fitness tracker. Some saw it as a proactive effort to avoid being squashed by the likely growth of smartwatches (http://mashable.com/2014/02/13/wearable-device-shipments/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) that bake both fitness tracking and smart **tifications (email and phone calls) into one device.
SEE ALSO: Animated iWatch Concept Is the Most Realistic You've Ever Seen (http://mashable.com/2014/01/22/animated-iwatch-concept/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/21/nike-fuelband-iwatch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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