Big companies like Google, Nike, Fitbit, and Samsung have generated huge revenues from the sale of wearable devices. Most entrepreneurs were moved to invest on various devices that could promote health and provide other relevant data that could be used in improving the quality of human life.
However, the wearable device market has been reported to backslide in recent days. In US, a majority of people aged 18 years and above have purchased a wearable device once or several times in their lifetime. However, most of these users are known to quit using their wearable device within six months of use.
Other surveys have found out that only one in three people could buy a wearable device. Some of these wearable devices that are abandoned include fitness trackers, heart beat trackers, smart watches, and other ornamental devices. Some of the reasons why the wearable devices are losing taste include;
1. Misleading motivation
Users abandon their wearable devices after realizing that the tools do not make any change in their life. For instance, users confess that they abandoned their activity tracker because it just offered data. According to many users, there is a need for a wearable device to provide them with data that can trigger an action.
Most users have expressed their interest to start using the devices if they are designed to provide more actionable data such as rating their daily activity. Besides being an activity monitor, a wearable should provide control data that a user ...