Adidas will quit making wearable fitness devices
Adidas is officially getting out of the wearable fitness industry, at least when it comes to making its own devices, according to a report from the Portland Business Journal that the company is shuttering its hardware division.
Adidas will be shifting efforts instead to focus on software — specifically, the Adidas App and Runtastic (which the company bought back in 2015). Adidas had released multiple wearable fitness trackers under the name miCoach, culminating in the miCoach Smart Run smartwatch, but it seems that none of them really quite took off.
Adidas had already been moving away from hardware development for some time — in a report last year from W…
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