AV-Test: Seven Fitness Wristbands and the Apple Watch in a Security Check 2016

[Petrovic]

Fitness wristbands and smart watches are extremely popular, not only with sports fans. Health insurance companies
are now even subsidizing the purchase of a tracker or rewarding their use, as fit people cost the insurance companies
less. That is why the experts from AV-TEST examined 7 of the latest fitness wristbands under Android and the Apple
Watch in terms of their security. The result: some manufacturers are continuing to make disappointing errors.

Smart watches and fitness wristbands or trackers are popular and are even being at least recommended by health insurers
worldwide. In Europe, the legal playing field only allows the health insurance companies to subsidize the wearables. In the United
States, there are already offers of premium rebates, as long as the policyholder is able to demonstrate his or her efforts per
fitness tracker. The New York startup, Oscar Health, for example, pays policyholders one dollar per day if they reach the daily
fitness goal.

At first glance, the current and forecast sales figures for fitness trackers mostly elicit an initial "Wow!". According to IDC, in 2014
over 26 million wearables were already sold, in 2015 already more than 75 million, and in 2016 the number is expected to exceed
100 million.

 

 

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