Fitbit neemt Apple Watch serieus
11 mei 2015 - 09:55   
geplaatst door: Robert
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Fitbit neemt Apple Watch serieus
Fitbit is voor MacFreaks een oude bekende, er zijn al vaker artikelen over de fitness-trackers van dat bedrijf hier voorbij gekomen, bijvoorbeeld in dit nieuwsbericht. Fitbit wil later dit jaar naar de beurs, en daarvoor hebben ze de inmiddels de officiële aanvraag bij de United States Securities and Exchange Commission ingediend.

Afgelopen jaar verkocht Fitbit maar liefst 10,2 miljoen stuks van hun fitness trackers, maar in hun eigen documentatie laten ze zien dat ze de concurrentie serieus nemen, daar hoort ook de Apple Watch bij:
Citaat


We operate in a highly competitive market. If we do not compete effectively, our prospects, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.

The connected health and fitness devices market is highly competitive, with companies offering a variety of competitive products and services. We expect competition in our market to intensify in the future as new and existing competitors introduce new or enhanced products and services that are potentially more competitive than our products and services.

The connected health and fitness devices market has a multitude of participants, including specialized consumer electronics companies, such as Garmin, Jawbone, and Misfit, and traditional health and fitness companies, such as adidas and Under Armour. In addition, many large, broad-based consumer electronics companies either compete in our market or adjacent markets or have announced plans to do so, including Apple, Google, LG, Microsoft, and Samsung.

For example, Apple has recently introduced the Apple Watch smartwatch, with broad-based functionalities, including some health and fitness tracking capabilities.

We also compete with a wide range of stand-alone health and fitness-related mobile apps that can be purchased or downloaded through mobile app stores. We believe many of our competitors and potential competitors have significant competitive advantages, including longer operating histories, ability to leverage their sales efforts and marketing expenditures across a broader portfolio of products and services, larger and broader customer bases, more established relationships with a larger number of suppliers, contract manufacturers, and channel partners, greater brand recognition, ability to leverage app stores which they may operate, and greater financial, research and development, marketing, distribution, and other resources than we do.

Our competitors and potential competitors may also be able to develop products or services that are equal or superior to ours, achieve greater market acceptance of their products and services, and increase sales by utilizing different distribution channels than we do.

Some of our competitors may aggressively discount their products and services in order to gain market share, which could result in pricing pressures, reduced profit margins, lost market share, or a failure to grow market share for us. If we are not able to compete effectively against our current or potential competitors, our prospects, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.






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