Most Q1 Wearables Growth Came From Smaller Vendors: IDC
Consumer demand for wearables remained strong in Q1, though volume retreated from record Q4 levels, reported IDC Thursday. It estimates global shipments of 104.6 million devices were up 34.4% from Q1 a year earlier -- the first time first-quarter shipments…
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topped 100 million. Though Apple and Samsung maintained double-digit leadership shares, most of the growth -- 55.5% year over year -- came from smaller companies like boAt and Oura, said IDC. Apple started 2021 the way it ended 2020 “as the clear leader in the worldwide wearables market,” IDC said. Samsung moved ahead of Xiaomi for the first time in Q1 and by more than a million units. Xiaomi was the only company among the top five to post a year-on-year decline.