Wearable equipment has become one of the forces to enter the consumer electronics market

Wearable equipment has become one of the forces to enter the consumer electronics market, but this equipment has also attracted some doubts in the industry. At present, the industry's wearable equipment mainly includes wrist strap, smart watches and smart glasses. Because these devices are worn close to the human body, these devices are ideal for monitoring people's activities, such as monitoring the quality of sleep, the number of steps to walk every day, and so on. But there is a question as to whether the price of wearable equipment can be accepted by the public.

From the current market analysis, including Google glasses and Apple smart watches and other wearable devices have a greater market prospects, but there are some obstacles to overcome.

The following are the main elements of the industry's research report on the development prospects and barriers to wearable equipment:

Market prospects: The industry believes that wearable equipment has a huge overall potential, but smart watches may be difficult to become popular consumer electronics, but smart watch comfortable wrist strap, can be loaded into the user pocket and tracking action functions may attract more information market, In particular, the healthcare industry and corporate users may like smart watch this product. Industry believes that 2014 global wearable equipment shipments will exceed 100 million per year, expected to be five years from now will reach 300 million.

Obstacles: style may be a major challenge to wearable equipment. The design appearance of smart watches may be difficult to equip with luxury watches, after all, luxury watches are first and foremost a fashion product and avantgarde product. Wearable glasses may face greater design challenges due to the appearance of sensory problems. In addition, battery life limits the use of wearable devices, and if the battery is depleted, those wearable devices will not be able to keep track of the user's health or daily habits. In addition, users need to continue to charge for the use of this device. More seriously, device vulnerabilities and privacy issues are also important obstacles that wearable devices must overcome.

Platform wars: Each new consumer electronic device will open the battlefield of a platform war, especially between the Android and iOS platforms. Perhaps Apple and Google's fierce process of competing on wearable platforms will remain less competitive between smartphones and tablets. From the current momentum, Google's Android seems to be in a more advantageous position.