Amazon Is Winding Down Its Halo Health Trackers in Latest Cut
- Introduced in 2020, Halo devices will cease to function Aug. 1
- CEO Jassy has been killing a number of marginal businesses
Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band.
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Amazon.com Inc. is pulling the plug on its line of Halo health devices as Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy seeks to wind down marginal programs and streamline the retail and cloud-computing giant’s businesses.
Halo — best known as a line of wrist-worn health and fitness trackers introduced in 2020 — will be discontinued on Aug. 1, Amazon said in a statement posted to its corporate blog and a notice sent to people who had purchased the device. The product line had expanded in September with the introduction of the Halo Rise, a bedside device that uses radar to analyze a person’s sleep patterns.