The end of the age of the smart hand ring wearable technology is ready to move forward.

Nike has signaled that it is phasing out the smart-bracelet, which may suggest that 2014 years of wearable technology will make rapid changes. Do you want to buy a smart bracelet? Maybe you should wait and see. Suddenly, it seems that some good fitness belt company is in an unstable phase. Fitbit Force After this winter's recall, Fitbit is missing high-end products. Basis has been acquired by Intel. What does all this mean? In fact, there are many other things, such as: Withings,jawbone,misfit,garmin, and now Samsung products. But Sony,lg,razer's wrist strap, as well as other products expected to be launched in the spring, have not yet been launched. Does this mean that the health tracker is facing a vicious circle? It seems that the wrist-band, the 2013 darling, suddenly slipped to the lowest point. Now the phone is easy to track your steps, and 10,000-step measurements a day can be useful in the beginning, but once you've mastered your schedule, it quickly becomes useless. People still buy smart hand rings. But it is in the midst of major evolutionary stages. If the smart bracelet--and all wearable products--is really intended to be used for a long time, its hardware and software need to be better developed. Companies also need to specialize in different areas. Fitness MP3 player? There may be products similar to the MP3 player on the market, Sanny U said he is the CEO of Misfit Wearable Company and the maker of another health tracker shine. Some are more like GPS, and the latter have some people to buy, probably because there are special hardware that can bring them different benefits. Similarly, the activity tracker needs to provide some good use cases that are good enough to prove the value of their existence. I've also been thinking about MP3 players, because in the early days, producers of music players also tried to connect their players to custom applications and services. Buy a player has its own Sync music program, some also try to customize the music file type. However, most people still listen to music on their mobile phones, because a separate MP3 player is meaningless. But my brother-in-law will still use his ipod Shuffle in the gym. Speaking of the future health tracker, says Wu, they need to do more, or they need to do better. He refers to the need to extend battery life, more modular design, these are misfit shine and other products are different places. What he said makes sense because more and more manufacturers are starting to enter the market. There's a lot of hardware but not enough good software news reports that Nike is moving from hardware production to fitness software, and interestingly, I just reviewed Samsung's smart bracelet, which has good hardware, but needs better software. Some hardware experts are entering wearable areas. This is inevitable. But not all of these companies are good at software. Samsung's GEar Fit is the latest and best example. It is very characteristic, but lacks the good software, especially in the health aspect software. So, Nike is working on the API? Like Fitbit and Withings eventually allow mobile phone step data to sync with their programs? That's good news. After reading these health trackers, it is clear that some companies are doing better than others. Sometimes it may be in structural design, but more because of software. Some companies need to focus on the software side. There are a lot of separate programs that are actually very good from the start--runkeeper,myfitnesspal and argos--and they are also connected to Cross-platform. But these are mostly mobile programs, and they are not fully extended to the wrist strap. In most cases, we are forced to accept the things that individual smart-hand-ring manufacturers force us to sync. Here's what hardware manufacturers don't need help with: making hardware. I like the design of FuelBand. But what I don't like is that a lot of other products, such as Apple and Google, are changing the situation recently. Fitness software needs to be smarter I used FuelBand for a few months. I wanted to lose weight then. 2013, I was almost successful, but after using wearable, I hit the wall. Of course, part of it is my own fault. In addition to counting your steps, the wrist strap does not allow me to move more aggressively. FuelBand does a little better than the others, but its so-called intensity is just the relative motion of the wrist band. It doesn't really allow me to do useful activities. The heart rate monitor is another step, but most of the software knows how to make good use of the data. Gear fit can tell me when to speed up or slow down, but it doesn't translate into some useful information that I can track after that. It turns into one by one smart wrist straps with no use. Fitness is just a small function of fitness tracker to become the most people in the market to buy products, but this is only because it is currently the most practical products ... And the price is the most affordable. The smart bracelet helps people track the number of steps, which makes sense for some people who don't care about smart watches, and most of these products are priced below 150 dollars. In the future, the use of smart wrist bands, smart labeling or wearable sensors must be improved. It is possible to collect information around, or to be responsible for security, or attention to medical problems, but no matter what, step calculation in the future is only a small function. Fitness sometimes doesn't mean it's better technically: GPS tracker, heart rate monitor, or even more. But even so, staying healthy or becoming healthy is only part of the wearable function. You may eventually find that many of the tracker's functions are getting closer to the smart watch. Said Wu. I agree, at least for the idea that fitness will be one of the many features that can be wearable. Nike leaving is a sensible move unless the smart bracelet is priced below 50 dollars and becomes a lost fashion accessory, notThen they have no future, or they need to make it more intelligent. The relationship between Nike and Apple clearly points to a direction, at least it will support all the products that Apple launches later, but for companies like Nike, they have a unique view of fitness or, for them, it is best to think carefully. Production program and run everything. It could be Netfix or Spotify. Let people choose you, and then choose another hardware. I don't want a wrist strap to run all the programs, and I don't think anyone wants to.