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Title: Smartwatches might be the ticking dead, but Apple Watch is starting to slay Post by: HCK on December 06, 2016, 04:05:22 pm Smartwatches might be the ticking dead, but Apple Watch is starting to slay
Maybe there's no smartwatch market, just an Apple Watch market? Rene Ritchie has been covering Apple and the personal technology industry for almost a decade. Editorial director for Mobile Nations, analyst for iMore, video and podcast host, you can follow him on Snapchat, Instagram, or Twitter @reneritchie. */ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ The last few months haven't been good for the smartwatch product category. Google delayed Android Wear 2.0 until next year, Motorola seems to be putting smartwatches on hold, and Pebble is selling to Fitbit. It's even led my colleague, Andrew Martonik, to declare the entire category a "zombie". But here's the thing — while smartwatches might be stalling, Apple Watch seems to be picking up speed. Here's Andrew's take away, written for Android Central: So where the heck are smartwatches going? Right now it doesn't seem like they're going much of anywhere. The big companies like Samsung (hey, and Apple) can afford to keep making them purely... Source: Smartwatches might be the ticking dead, but Apple Watch is starting to slay (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/ShxKc3804tk/smartwatches-dying-apple-watch-alive) |