The Apple Watch in particular saw unprecedented growth and new user adoption, while challengers lag far behind. With competing smartwatches still months out, competitors need to find other ways to challenge Apple’s devices on price, functionality, and cross-platform compatibility.

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Google's consolidating its health records and Search talent teams into its Fitbit business—this could signal its intent to pair Fitbit with personal health records, giving it enough ammo to catch up to Apple.

Apple is reportedly adding its most advanced sensors ever to its Series 7 Watch (temperature, glucose sensors)—here’s how its leadership in the wearables space could help prop up its healthcare play.

Amazon Halo launched a new feature that uses AI to track movement and build a personalized fitness plan—here’s how Big Tech can use wearables to capitalize on the growing remote patient monitoring market.

A new Nest update will make Google’s smart home devices compatible with the Matter smart home standard. The move could add momentum towards a push for a unified smart home ecosystem and presents Google with access to a quickly growing supply of smart devices.

The news: The wearables market may soon be getting some serious competition from fashion brands like H&M and its smart clothes, per Bloomberg. How it works: Alan Boehme, H&M’s chief technology officer, is looking at smart clothing as an alternative to smartwatches and wearables. Smart clothing is not new—clothing has had integrated sensors since the late ’80s.

These respondents have good reason to be skeptical, as the devices entering the consumer market often lack the regulatory oversight and systems that medical wearables have. Popular and Emerging RPM Devices. There are a variety of wearables available to consumers besides those from Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and Amazon. Internet-Connected Versions of Medical Devices.