Nike’s new strategy will put it more in line to compete with Healthbook as an application rather than the actual iWatch device.Īnnounced last month, the new Nike+ FuelBand SE has gone on sale through Apple’s Online Store. This announcement comes only weeks before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company is expected to show off its upcoming Healthbook application as part of the next generation of iPhone software in anticipation of iWatch hardware coming later this year. Just a week ago, Nike launched Nike+Fuel Lab in San Francisco, a “new program to develop partnerships and products with NikeFuel” hundreds of miles south of its current location at its Oregon HQ. The company is said to have come to the conclusion that fitness software has a more stable future at the company, leading to the discontinuation of the FuelBand and other wearable fitness products and the firing of most of the 70 employees currently working in that division.

Nike has decided to get out of the wearable technology market entirely, according to a brand-new report from CNET.

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