And why he’s thankful the company stayed clear of the Jawbone UP3
Philippe Kahn has been in the quantified self game longer than most. You may not have heard of MotionX, his activity tracking technology, but it’s been at the forefront of wearables since the very beginning.
MotionX was the brains behind the ubiquitous Jawbone UP24, and after powering Nike’s fitness tracking empire it’s now at the heart of the first Swiss-made smartwatches from Mondaine, Alpina and Frederique Constant.
So why switch from the likes of Jawbone to the Swiss watch old guard?
With twelve years of fitness science and 100 million hours of data, he believes Fitbit, Jawbone, and Apple are missing a trick.
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