APPLE HAS BEEN CROWNED the world’s number one smartwatch vendor, despite speculation that sales were tanking.According to new research from Strategy Analytics, Apple sold 3.5 million smartwatches in the first quarter of 2017. That’s up from the 2.2 million in the year-ago quarter, and sees the firm bagging 15.9 per cent of the global market.Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics, said: ”Apple shipped 3.5 million wearables worldwide in Q1 2017, rising 59 percent annually from 2.2 million units in Q1 2016.”Apple captured 16 percent global marketshare and overtook Fitbit to become the world’s largest wearables vendor. The new Apple Watch Series 2 is selling relatively well in the US, UK and elsewhere, due to enhanced styling, intensive marketing and a good retail presence.”The research comes just days after it was revealed that big-name firms, including Amazon, eBay and Google, had decided to bin their Apple Watch apps, fuelling speculation that sales of the Apple wearable had plummeted.
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