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We asked, you told us: Most don’t see the benefit of a smartwatch or fitness tracker
August 19, 2025
Several years ago, it looked like wearables might be the next big thing in the technology world. As you can probably assume, they haven’t taken off in the way many hoped they would.
Despite this, over the last several years, we’ve seen a growing number of companies try their hand at making smartwatches, fitness trackers and other wearables. So we decided to ask you,do you own and use a smart wearable? Here is what you had to say.
Do you own a smartwatch, fitness tracker, or other wearable?
When we average out the roughly 50,000 votes between the poll on thewebsiteandYouTube, we’re left with the above results. Surprisingly, despite a seemingly large adoption rate of various smart devices, most of you don’t wear or even own a smartwatch, fitness tracker, or other wearables.
It is interesting to learn that more of you have smartwatches than fitness trackers. Looking through the comments, it’s pretty clear that most wear smartwatches so that they can look at notifications in addition to tracking their fitness. Personally, this is why I wear a smartwatch over something like aFitbit.
Going forward, I can see the adoption rate of smartwatches continue to grow. WhileWear OShas been stumbling,Samsung’s Tizen-powered smartwatchesand theApple Watchcontinue to be more popular. As companies bake in reliable fitness tech, sales of dedicated health trackers might drop.
Noteworthy comments
Here are some of the best comments from last week’s poll explaining why they voted the way that they did:
That’s it for this week, everyone. As always, thanks for voting, thanks for the comments, and don’t forget to let us know what you thought of the results below.
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