The international smartwatch market grew by 35 p.c year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 2021 with Apple sustaining its lead within the phase, in line with a brand new Counterpoint Research report. The Cupertino-based large captured a 33.5 p.c share within the international smartwatch market in Q1 2021, adopted by Huawei and Samsung. Counterpoint famous that Huawei continued to face declining gross sales and Samsung’s Tizen OS was the second hottest OS for wearables, adopted by Google’s WatchOS. As the worldwide smartwatch market grew by 35 p.c, Apple registered a 50 p.c annual progress, capturing a 3rd of the smartwatch market by way of volumes. The report stated that Apple noticed its market share climb by 3 p.c, driving on the rise in demand for the Apple Watch Series 6 fashions. Samsung shipments grew 27 p.c year-on-year, with the recognition of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 and the Galaxy Watch Active sequence.
In phrases of working methods, Apple’s WatchOS captured greater than a 3rd of the market with a rising connect price to its base of billion iPhone customers, Counterpoint Research stated. Google’s Wear OS has not but achieved so successful within the smartwatch area. This, in line with the report, is because of manufacturers creating and putting in their very own propriety OS to smartwatches. Google’s Wear OS captured a market share, whereas Apple’s WatchOS captured a 33.5 p.c share. Samsung’s Tizen OS captured 8 p.c of the market by way of smartwatch OS.
Counterpoint Research stated that Google’s Wear OS could acquire market share contemplating the Google-Samsung partnership introduced on the Google I/O final week. Google will combine Tizen OS with Google Wear OS to reinvigorate the market and go full power after the three.5 billion Android person base.
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