The smart wearable market's growth in 2018 has been fostered by Apple, Xiaomi, and Huawei most especially in Q4.
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Apple, Xiaomi, Huawei topped the wearable shipments in 2018 |
Wearable market at its peak in 2018!
Apple still sits on the leading position with 26.8 percent share in the whole wearable market. Meanwhile Xiaomi and Huawei has a total of 13.5 percent and 6.6 percent 2018 market share, respectively.
IDC included the ear-worn wearable devices that ushered in Apple Airpods and Google Pixel Buds into the list.
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Apple Watch Series 4 |
Apple have shipped a total of 46.2 million smart wearables in 2018 compared to its 33.1 million in 2017. Xiaomi posted a 45 percent growth in its shipment compared with the previous year. While a whopping 147 percent growth was seen on Huawei's shipment from its 4.6 million wearable shipment in 2017 to its 11.3 million 2018 shipment.
There are a total of 37 million more wearables shipment made in 2018 by these manufacturers than what they did in 2017.
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Xiaomi Mi Band 3 |
Out of the 16.2 million Apple wearable devices shipped were Apple Watches leaving the rest of the count to the Airpods and Beats headphones.
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Top 5 wearable companies according to IDC (part 1) |
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Top 5 wearable companies according to IDC (part 2) |
Xiaomi's been firm in the second place. Huawei managed to edge out Samsung due to its new products like the Watch GT and FreeBuds 2 Pro and the fact that many of the Huawei and Honor smartphones were bundled with wearables.
Fitbit places fourth with a total of 13.8 million shipments in 2018 which have shown a decline over its higher 15.4 million shipments in 2017.
Samsung's wearable shipments have also grown to 105 percent or a total of 4 million shipments than its 2 million in the 14 of 2017.
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