Apple posted a remarkable 55.7% QoQ increase in Gulf countries shipments in Q4 2020 following the release of its iPhone 12 line of devices…
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Apple continues to dominate worldwide wearables market
Apple continues to dominate the worldwide wearables market as shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the Q420…
Apple’s iPhone dominates Japan smartphone market with 53.2% share
IDC Japan this week announced the shipment volume of domestic smartphones. Apple’s iPhone dominates the Japan market with 52.6% share…
Apple gains market share worldwide – analyst
Apple is gaining market share worldwide as IDC research in Q4 finds robust 5G iPhone demand and Apple taking share from Huawei while…
IDC: Apple iPhone grew 34.7% YOY in China in Q4
Apple recorded its highest shipments in China since 2016 and was the only top 5 vendor that achieved a full-year growth. The iPhone 12 series…
IDC: Apple Mac sales grow 49.2% year-over-year in Q420
Apple’s Mac sales grew a whopping 49.2% in the fourth quarter (holiday) quarter of 2020 versus Q4 in 2019. Q420 saw global shipments grow…
IDC: Apple Mac sales rocket in Q3 with 38.9% year-over-year growth
As the global pandemic continues, the remote work and learning COVID-19-induced boom saw Apple’s Mac sales rocket in Q3 with 38.9% growth…
IDC: Wearables market to near 400 million units this year on double digit growth
Global shipments of wearable devices are expected to total 396.0 million units in 2020 according to new data from IDC…
IDC: Apple dominates Q220 wearables with 34.2% market share
The market for wearable devices grew 14.1% during the second quarter of 2020 (2Q20), as Apple’s domination continues, thanks to…
IDC expects worldwide smartphone shipments to plummet 11.9% in 2020
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 11.9% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units, according to…
Apple iPhone continues to dominate India’s premium smartphone market
Apple’s iPhone continued to dominate India’ premium (US$500+) smartphone segment with 62.7% market share. However, in India, the sub-US$200 segment…
Apple Watch and AirPods dominate wearables market share
Apple dominated in worldwide wearables market share, shipping 43.4 million units in 4Q19 thanks to its refreshed AirPods, AirPods Pro, and Apple Watch…
IDC: Apple takes top spot in Q4 2019 worldwide smartphone market share
Apple’s iPhone took the top spot in Q4 2019 worldwide smartphone market share with year-over-year growth of 7.9%, thanks to the iPhone 11 series…
IDC: Worldwide wearables market to top 300 million units in 2019 and nearly 500 million units in 2023
Continued end-user demand, proliferation of devices, and declining average selling prices will propel the worldwide wearables market in the years to come…
IDC: Apple dominates worldwide wearables market, posts 195.5% YOY growth
Global shipments of wearable devices totaled 84.5 million units in the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19), a year-over-year increase of 94.6%…
IDC: 2019 will be challenging for iPhone, shipments expected to drop to 177.9 million, down 14.8% year over year
A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows signs of market recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020…
Analysts still can’t seem to estimate Apple Mac sales data consistently
The latest PC market data from Gartner and IDC is in — and projects contrasting pictures depending who you believe…
U.S. President Trump says meeting with China went ‘far better than expected’
The meeting exceeded expectations, Trump said, tweeting that it went “far better than expected.” The president also elaborated on…
Here’s one way Apple could benefit from the U.S.-China trade war
The global smartphone market fell 6.6% during the first quarter of 2019, according to ID, but…
IDC: Apple Watch to lead smartwatch growth through at least 2023
The market for wearable devices is on track to reach global shipments of 222.9 million units in 2019, growing to 302.3 million units in 2023…
IDC: Apple expected to gain traction in smart home market
The global market for smart home devices is expected to grow 26.9% year over year in 2019 to 832.7 million shipments…
IDC: Apple Watch will account for 27.5% of all smartwatches in 2023
The worldwide market for wearable devices, now inclusive of wireless headphones with smart assistants…
The Apple Watch is proving to be a big deal
In the week of March 4th, market intelligence firm IDC published a report that made me even more…
It’s prime time for Apple Watch
Smartwatches are most certainly no longer a fad…
IDC: Apple No.1 in Q418 worldwide wearables shipments with 16.2 million units, 10.4 million of which were Apple Watches
The worldwide market for wearable devices grew 31.4% during the fourth quarter of 2018…
Gartner: Apple’s iPhone unit sales suffered worst quarterly decline since first quarter of 2016
Global sales of smartphones to end users stalled in the fourth quarter of 2018…
IDC estimates Apple iPhone sales in China fell 20 percent YOY in 2018 holiday quarter
Apple Inc iPhone sales in China fell 20 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2018…
IDC: Samsung edges Apple as smartphone woes continue with worldwide shipments down 4.9% in holiday quarter
Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 375.4 million units during the fourth quarter of 2018…
Once again, IDC and Gartner were both quite wrong in estimating Apple’s Q4 Mac shipments
Two research groups that estimate global PC shipments not only served up incorrect data as fact…
IDC: Worldwide tablet market declined 13.5% during the Q218
The worldwide tablet market declined 13.5% during the second quarter of 2018…
IDC: Apple iPhone sales to grow 2.6% in 2018 to 221 million total units
After declining 0.3% in 2017, the worldwide smartphone market is expected to contract again in 2018 before returning to growth in 2019…
Apple takes 59% of global wearables revenue on 21% unit share
Apple is doing Apple, all over again…
IDC: Global wearables market grew 7.7% in Q417 and 10.3% in 2017 as Apple Watch seized the lead
The worldwide wearables market continued its upward trajectory in both the fourth quarter…
Apple’s line of smartwatches outsold the entire Swiss watch industry last quarter
Apple sold more than eight million watches in the final quarter of 2016, making it one of the largest watchmakers in the world…
Gartner estimates Apple Mac grew shipments 1.4% in holiday quarter; computer market declined in Q417 and for the year
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.6 million units…
IDC estimates Apple Mac grew shipments 7.3% in holiday quarter; personal computer market posts first Q4 shipment growth in 6 years
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled 70.6 million units…
Cellular-capable Apple Watch ushers in digital health revolution
In the last months of Steve Jobs’s life, the Apple co-founder fought cancer while managing diabetes…
IDC: Shipments of wearables to nearly double by 2021 as smartwatches take the lead over cheap fitness bands
The move from wristbands to watches introduces additional revenue opportunities for vendors and distributors…
Apple’s exposes IDC’s and Gartner’s flawed Mac unit sales estimates
Two industry surveys didn’t come close to estimating Apple’s Mac unit sales accurately…
IDC: Apple Mac slightly increases marketshare in Q317
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs totaled 67.2 million units in the third quarter of 2017…
IDC: Apple’s next-gen OLED iPhone will spur a major upgrade cycle in 2018
According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker
IDC: Artificial Intelligence can create 800,000+ jobs; global business revenues $1.1 trillion by 2021
Artificial intelligence will create 823,734 jobs by the year 2021, surpassing the number of jobs lost to AI technologies…
