The success of the Mi Band 3, the incredible growth of Huawei and other delights wearable electronics market
News Devices / / December 19, 2019
Interesting stats and unexpected figures Sales fitness bracelets, smart watches and other portable gadgets.
IDC analysts have published a report on the wearable electronics sales for the fourth quarter 2018. The market grew by 31.4%, and a total of 59.3 million units shipped. This growth is associated with the launch of new models of bracelets, watches and popularity of wireless headphones.
wearable market grew by 55% compared to the fourth quarter of 2017 and now stands at 34.3% of the share of wearable electronics. Previously, analysts Strategy Analytics reportedThat half of these devices in 2018 sold the Apple. The share of smart wristbands was 30%, and sales lead Xiaomi, Huawei and Fitbit.
In the ranking of manufacturers first place, as expected, it took Apple. She has sold 16.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2018, 10.4 of which were Apple Watch. The rest of the profit Apple in this market totaled AirPods headphones and Beats.
Xiaomi entrenched in second place. The company's products are very popular in China. Strengthened the position of and access to European and other Asian markets. The most popular wearable devaysom Xiaomi became
Mi Band 3, Which accounted for as much as 30% of all sales of the bracelets sold during the quarter.Closes the three Huawei, selling 5.7 million units. In this case, its annual growth amounted to as much as 248.5%, and all thanks to the fact that the company began selling bracelets complete with their phones.
On the fourth place is the Fitbit, which began to gain momentum after the release of Charge 3 and Versa. IDC believes that this company has good prospects as it continues to invest in health and Soup for the money back with interest. With this agreement, and experts from Strategy Analytics.
Fifth place went to Samsung. She, like Huawei and Xiaomi, sold its smart bracelets complete with smart phones, and the recently released Galaxy Watch users have taken very well. However, older models such as the Gear S3, still selling better.