This year's Apple WWDC congress "soft", the only released hardware is a new Apple rainbow Watch strap, but by Apple Watch led by Apple wearable equipment business, has gradually become the industry leader.
Market research firm IDC today issued a 2018 Q1 global wearable equipment market report, according to the first quarter of the global wearable equipment shipments for 25.1 million units, up 1.2% from a year earlier, compared with the same period of last year's 18% growth is plunging.
Wearable devices like smart phones downturn, this is mainly due to the base class of the wearable device shipments fell 9.2%, meanwhile smart devices are more popular with consumers, such as apple and Fitbit relatively high-end intelligent wearable devices increased by 28.4%.
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Watches and bracelets accounted for 95 percent of global wearable device shipments in the first quarter, according to IDC, and apple was the biggest winner.
As Apple support cellular networks Watch Series 3, Apple Watch shipments rose 13.5% year-on-year, Apple wearable equipment market share from 14.3% to 16.1%, sit on the top, the backdrop of the downturn in the market as a whole.
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Revenue and shipments rose more than 50 percent in the first quarter, according to Apple.Sales of the Apple Watch Series 3 more than doubled from a year ago.
According to GBH Insights, 70 percent of Apple Watch Series 3 buyers are new.
In the second quarter earnings call, Apple cook said, including AirPods, Beats headphones and Watch Apple, wearable devices business revenue growth close to 50%, hold up the Apple "other products by more than 90% growth," Mr. Cook for the evaluation of the business is:
Our wearables business is now in the top 300.
The Apple Watch, which accounts for more than half of the smartwatch market, played a major role. Although the new Apple Watch was not launched at this WWDC conference, watchOS 5 was also updated to better support sports functions