Apple Already Dominates Smart-Wearables Market, IDC Says
Apple Watch Is Still Trying to Catch Fitbit
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Apple Inc. sold 3.6 million Apple Watches in the second quarter, beating some analysts’ expectations and making the company the dominant provider of smart wearable devices after just one quarter of sales, market research firm IDC said in a report.
Apple sold 66 percent of the 5.5 million smart wearables, defined as devices capable of running third-party applications, said Ramon Llamas, research manager for IDC’s wearables team. Only 1.4 million smart devices, almost all of them Samsung Electronics Co.’s Gear products, were sold in the quarter a year earlier, Llamas said Thursday.