According to a new research published by IDC, Apple is continuing to dominated the entire wearables industry with its Apple Watch, as its market share rise year-over-year from the 14.4 percent to 21 percent in Q4, along with units growing from 5.1 million, that makes it the best selling wearable device during the period.
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Furthermore, IDC says that one in every five wearables shipped last quarter was an Apple Watch, on the strength of new Series 3 models launched in September. Other four of the companies that ranked below Apple were Fitbit, Xiaomi, Garmin, and Huawei, with fitbit reported sales of 5.4 million wearables last quarter, while Xiaomi shipped 4.9 million units over that time,
4Q17 was the first quarter that Apple held the market leader position all to itself after spending several quarters close behind Fitbit or Xiaomi. Apple is catching the market at the right time with many users of basic wearables moving on to smartwatches and cellular connectivity (available on select Series 3 Watches) is earning a warm reception among end users, if only for the convenience of leaving their smartphone behind. The late-year push of 8.0 million units separated Apple from the competition to emerge as the overall leader of the wearables market for the year.
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Even through Apple doesn't break out Apple Watch sales as like it did with iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but CEO Tim Cook clams during last month's earnings call that Apple Watch had its best quarter ever in the fourth quarter of 2017, with over 50 percent growth in revenue and units sold for the fourth quarter in a row.