Fitbit has confirmed its acquisition of Pebble, including the smartwatch pioneer’s software, intellectual property and many of its engineers, but not its hardware portfolio. The deal is intended to accelerate Fitbit’s push into the healthcare industry, as Pebble’s software platform helps lay the groundwork for a new app store for Fitbit’s wearable devices. „Fitbit snapsweiterlesen

The Wall Street Journal titelte gestern: „Apple Watch with sizeable sales can’t shake it’s critics“ (siehe URL) und änderte ihre Überschrift anschließend in „Apple’s Watch Outpaced the iPhone in First Year“. Alles eine Frage der Perspektive, schätze ich. So far, the numbers appear solid. Apple doesn’t disclose sales, but analysts estimate about 12 million Watchesweiterlesen

Apple continues to dominate the smart watch market, holding onto its sizeable lead through the second quarter of Apple Watch shipments. The company has now shipped nearly 7 million smart watches since launch, a figure in excess of all other vendors’ combined shipments over the previous five quarters. In Q3 Apple was the only smartweiterlesen

Nachdem Slice Intelligence mit eindimensionalen Grafiken über vermeintliche Apple-Watch-Verkaufszahlen immer noch dankbare Nachrichtenportale zum unreflektierten Abdruck findet, sei erneut die erhebliche Fragwürdigkeit aufgezeigt.