The wearables battlefield is strewn with casualties

2017 has been a turbulent time for what, for brevity’s sake, we’ll call the smartwatch industry, with Fitbit’s long-delayed smartwatch still trapped in development hell. Fitbit’s biggest rival, Jawbone, recently began winding itself down despite raising nearly a billion dollars in capital across its life. Then there’s Intel, another deep-pocketed player that reportedly chose to quietly shutter