Q4 Fitbit shipments plunged 17.3% to 5.4m units, with its market share declining from 18.5% to 14.2% and the shipment of millet dropped 4.5% to 4.9m and the market share dropped from 14.7% to 13.0% ranked No. 3. Followed by 6.5% of Garmin (shipments grew 4.7% to 2.5 million), Huawei 4.3% (93.2% surge to 1.6 million).
IDC pointed out that for the full year of 2017, global shipments of wearable devices increased by 10.3% to 111.4 million units in volume, although the growth rate was passively lower than the 27% in 2016, but shipments hit a record high Record.
In particular, Fitbit shipments plunged 31.6% to 15.4m in FY17F from 17.5% in 2016 to 13.3% in FY15, down from 1 in 2016 to 3 in the market.
On the other hand, the sales of Apple Watch surged by 55.9% to 17.7 million. Its market share jumped from 10.8% to 15.3%. Its annual market share surpassed that of millet at one go and Fitbit ranked first for the first time.
Shipments of millet dropped 0.3% in 2017 to 15.7m and market share shrank from 15.0% to 13.6%, followed by Garmin 5.4% (shipments 0.8% to 6.3m) and Fossil Of the 4.3% (133.1% surge to 4.9 million).
According to iPhone Mania reported on the 2nd, according to the American media MacRumors, the smart watch shipping forecast data obtained from IDC shows that the market share of Q4 Apple watch in the global smart watch market in 2017 is as high as 60.99%, and is the only one to obtain 2 (10%) market share of Samsung smart watches market share of 8.40% (1.1 million shipments) ranked second, followed by Garmin's 7.25% (900,000), Fossil's 4.49 % (600,000) and Fitbit's 3.53% (500,000).
For 2017 as a whole, Apple Watch accounted for 53.01% of the global smart watch market, followed by Samsung's 10.90% (3.6 million shipments), Garmin's 8.24% (2.7 million), Fossil's 5.35% (1.8 million) and 4.35% (1.4 million) of Continental Wireless.