Solid Growth for Wearable Devices
In the three months leading up to the April release of the Apple Watch, the wearables market continued to show strong growth. The worldwide wearable device market recorded its eighth consecutive quarter of steady growth in the first quarter this year, with vendors shipping a total of 11.4 million wearables, according to research firm IDC. That was a 200 percent increase from 3.8 million in the year-earlier quarter. “Bucking the...