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Part II: Garmin's CIRQA Screenless Band at $200 Detonates the Subscription Wearables Thesis: What WHOOP, Oura & Eight Sleep Must Do When Sensor Hardware Commoditizes
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Part II: Garmin's CIRQA Screenless Band at $200 Detonates the Subscription Wearables Thesis: What WHOOP, Oura & Eight Sleep Must Do When Sensor Hardware Commoditizes

Garmin just launched a $200 screenless health band with no subscription. That one decision puts the entire wearable subscription model under structural pressure.

The sensor stack inside every biometric band costs $15-25 to build at scale. The subscription was never about hardware. It was about the intelligence layer. Garmin just commoditized both.

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