Apple Watch projections show significant growth in unit sales between now and 2020, with a drop in market share as Android Wear continues to grow in the lower priced market.
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IDC: Apple Watch leapfrogs all but FitBit, ships 4.1 million in 4th quarter
Not too shabby for a product that just started shipping 9 months ago.
IDC’s Apple Watch sales estimates, 3.9 million, up from 3.6 million last quarter
With two quarters of Apple Watch under its belt, Apple has sold a total of 7.5 million units. Not too shabby, especially given the heavy competition and the fact that this is still an emerging category.
Not trusting IDC analysts
> IDC collectively referred to iOS and Android as accounting for 93.8 percent of all smartphone shipments in 2013, describing the two platforms as pursuing opposite strategies without referencing the fact that Apple earns the majority of the world’s handset profits. “Android relied on its long list of OEM partners, a broad and deep collection of devices, and price points that appealed to nearly every market segment,” wrote IDC’s Research Manager Ramon Llamas, without providing any context on how that strategy resulted in lost profits for the majority of manufacturers who use Android, including Google’s own Motorola subsidiary. “Apple’s iOS, on the other hand,” Llamas continued, “relied on nearly the opposite approach: a limited selection of Apple-only devices, whose prices trended higher than most. Despite these differences, both platforms found a warm reception to their respective user experiences and selection of mobile applications.”
This report and comments from IDC just stink. The iPhone took over 87% of the handset profits worldwide.
IDC: Global PC shipments show worst drop since records began
PCs saw the worst sales drop ever for the first calendar quarter of 2013, according to research firm IDC.