After early hype, smartwatches slowly emerge with enterprise uses
A market for enterprise-use smartwatches is slowly emerging, being led by the Apple Watch, according to market research firm IDC.
"Apple Watch in particular, and to some extent other smartwatches, do have relevance in the enterprise, although to date the usage has been quite low as the market is still nascent," IDC analyst Jitesh Ubrani said in an email.
The first Apple Watch was released with much fanfare just over two years ago this week -- on April 24, 2015.
While the Apple Watch and other smartwatches haven't sold as well as once hoped, they are part of an emerging landscape of wrist wearables that includes several Samsung models and more than a dozen other smartwatch brands that natively run third-party apps. These smartwatches compete with some less-intelligent models from Fitbit and other wrist wearables sold primarily as consumer devices to monitor fitness.
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