The Apple Watch grabbed over half of the global smartwatch market last year even if it handiest went on sale on the end of April - while Android put on has slipped behind, according to an analyst report.
Juniper analysis talked about the Apple Watch accounted for fifty two percent of smatwatch shipments in 2015 - compared to Android put on which it talked about made up less than 10 p.c of shipments. someplace around 17 million smartwatches have been shipped ultimate year.
Most other smartwatch revenue are currently coming from more affordable, simpler devices from a variety of smaller players, comparable to Martian, X and Razer, the latter with the lately-introduced Nabu Watch, Juniper observed.
The analysts mentioned the "endured lack of a strong use case for smartwatches" ability that, aside from the Apple Watch, the market is being pushed through reduce-priced instruments with less refined performance, which deliver fundamental notification and health tracking, devoid of an app-in a position working device on the device itself.
And whereas smartwatch providers have crammed out their product traces, allowing for customisation and value segmentation, there has no longer been any brilliant start forward that revolutionised the class.
The smartwatch is now a category looking forward to a market observed analysis creator James Moar: 'newer devices have provided extra polished appears and subtly distinctive functions, but no colossal adjustments in gadget capabilities or utilization."
Smartwatch vendors were attempting to emulate Apple (which sells pricey gold smartwatches) by adding gold- and platinum-plating and crystals in an try and entice extra trend-mindful patrons. but smartwatches are nevertheless ready on more desirable battery existence and purposes that give a compelling reason to purchase one.
In September Apple published there were now 10,000 apps available for the Apple Watch - compared to Google's claim of 4,000 Android put on apps in may also.
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