One in five Americans now wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker

guest · Jan 10, 2020

One in five Americans now wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker
Wearables aren't going away
January 10, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/83487-one-five-americans-now-wear-smartwatch-or-fitness.html

In a nutshell: Remember when smartwatches were starting to look like another tech fad? Despite predictions that they would die off, wearables have been improving over the years, so much so that around one in ten (21 percent) of US adults say they now regularly wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker.

The information comes from a Pew Research Center study, which shows that, as with most tech, wearables adoption is higher (31 percent) in households earning $75,000 or more per year. The figure falls to 12 percent in homes where income is below $30,000.

The practice of fitness trackers sharing user data with medical researchers has long been controversial in many people’s eyes, but more participants in the study (41 percent) said it was acceptable as a way for researchers to better understand the link between exercise and heart disease.
The study asked 4,272 people if they had a wearable and their opinion on private and government agencies using the data they collect on people.
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