Wearable Computing
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Tweetstorm Digest: June 17, 2015
Some @charlesfitz thoughts on Fitbit right before their IPO: 1/ Fitbit IPOs tomorrow and this profitable company has a surprising number of skeptics. 2/ They have dominant market share (85%) and their brand is almost synonymous a la Kleenex/Xerox with the fitness tracker category. 3/ 2014 revenue was $745M with $337M in the first quarter…
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Third Time’s a Charm?
So now Microsoft joins the rumored array of aspiring watchmakers. Every story includes an obligatory reference to the Microsoft SPOT watch and its FM sideband broadcast technology: Yet there was an even earlier Microsoft watch. Industry history, it turns out, predates the archives of any tech blog, even those that stretch all the way back…