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Nike Fires Majority of FuelBand Team, Plans to Stop Making Wearables
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Oh, I think wearables will have a very VERY long future.
Its always far easier to wear something than carry something.
The only question is, when does technology advance to the point where it can produce a device people want to wear.
I'm sure when the 1st clocks appeared some may of scoffed at the idea of a timepiece worn on your arm, but they got there eventually.
Like Google Glass and 3D Headsets that are coming. We really are at the starting post now thanks to current tech.
I'd love to have a peek at 10, 20, 100 years from now and see what people consider normal then.
You're neglecting the fact that he can't give out such information to Nike just by sitting on their board.
There hasn't been any rumor of Apple buying up the team. It just says they were fired.
They wouldn't even know whether Apple will release a wearable. Having someone from Apple on their board doesn't allow that kind of privileged information. Policies that say not to speak about unreleased or potential products don't go away just because an executive sits on their board. Where you may be right is regarding dumping a loss leader product line.
Shoes as a component
By integrating a lot of features of a phone placing them in the sneakers or shoes they could sell the package instead of just a watch.
Use the shoe to place bluetooth connected components making the watch look more like a watch instead of a woman's bracelet. Getting rid of the phone in the pocket would be a reason for me to have a wearable.
A belt buckle could also hold a spare battery, earpiece, antenna-whatever.
Yes more parts but collectively easier and lighter and more functional.
By integrating a lot of features of a phone placing them in the sneakers or shoes they could sell the package instead of just a watch.
Use the shoe to place bluetooth connected components making the watch look more like a watch instead of a woman's bracelet. Getting rid of the phone in the pocket would be a reason for me to have a wearable.
A belt buckle could also hold a spare battery, earpiece, antenna-whatever.
Yes more parts but collectively easier and lighter and more functional.
So I have to wear a certain shoe to get any benefit from the band/watch/health app? This sounds terrible.
This is why I never bought a FuelBand. I don't want to know fuel points that I have to convert or whatever.
Looks like they are still going to sell and support. I'd still be weary of buying one and them drop support once the iwatch comes out http://www.phonearena.com/news/Nike...e-FuelBand-new-METALUXE-colors-coming_id55341
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I have the Nike+ watch and use it without the shoes and works great. You can integrate it with the shoes but I just use the watches GPS to track my runs/calories burned
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I have the Nike+ watch and use it without the shoes and works great. You can integrate it with the shoes but I just use the watches GPS to track my runs/calories burned
But 3D is a success. More films are being filmed in and shown in 3D, 3D TV sales are up, 3DS console sales put it on track to beating the best-selling console of all time, Oculus Rift and Morpheus are celebrated by the press and users alike.
Is this a case of "I don't like it so I'm going to say it's a fad"?
wearables
Dude this is Nike. a belt buckle would not be a big extra. Nike could sell the premium versions with sneakers. Maybe even power them by walking!
Dude this is Nike. a belt buckle would not be a big extra. Nike could sell the premium versions with sneakers. Maybe even power them by walking!
Being fired
That is a situation I do not like to experiment with again.
All of the sudden you have no job and the money you were making barely give you for one month of rent because of the negotiation at the beginning of the hiring process.
Then, you have to depend of your parents again.
Horrible.
That is a situation I do not like to experiment with again.
All of the sudden you have no job and the money you were making barely give you for one month of rent because of the negotiation at the beginning of the hiring process.
Then, you have to depend of your parents again.
Horrible.
Well, if we get an announcement that Pebble watch production will cease, then the iWatch is definitely inbound.
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Lmao, this comment made my Easter wk end, and lifted my sour mood as I have to work tomorrow!
This does not surprise me a bit. Worked with a few ex-Nike and turned down an offer to work up there myself.
From what I can piece together, executive management up there are two camps. One is the traditional "jock mindset" that wants to keep the cash cow of the Nike brand and athletic marketing going strong. The other is the "nerd camp" that wants Nike to be the "Apple of athletics" selling electronic items for upward mobile fitness-minded consumers.
When one gets the upper hand, the other hand smacks it down. A running joke I heard is their athletic field with the oval running track in front of their headquarters is quite symbolic. That is, you run and run and run to get somewhere but you end up where you started.
From what I can piece together, executive management up there are two camps. One is the traditional "jock mindset" that wants to keep the cash cow of the Nike brand and athletic marketing going strong. The other is the "nerd camp" that wants Nike to be the "Apple of athletics" selling electronic items for upward mobile fitness-minded consumers.
When one gets the upper hand, the other hand smacks it down. A running joke I heard is their athletic field with the oval running track in front of their headquarters is quite symbolic. That is, you run and run and run to get somewhere but you end up where you started.
The iwatch is going to be so much more than any existing "fitness wearable" which are a concept with a very narrow potential market. Note that I'm separating out these new "wearables" from gps running/biking watches (which also have a narrow, but different, market).
Perhaps that would do better if they did not limit the gadget to just iOS devices. I wonder if Tim Cook had a hand in this.
Why Nike Is (Probably) Killing Off The FuelBand http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029400/why-nike-is-probably-killing-off-the-fuelband
Tim Cook does sit on the Nike board.
Look at it this way, what was the MP3 player before the iPod? Nothing. What was the tablet before the iPad? Nothing. I see the same thing with a wearable device, Apple doesn't have to invent to innovate. The iPhone changed the face of smartphones and it wasn't the first one. it was the BEST one, that is why all smartphones are like it.