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Apple projected to dominate true wireless hearables market in 2020
According to Counterpoint Research’s latest Hearables Market Tracker, Apple is projected to dominate true wireless hearables market in 2020…
How Apple should launch their AR Glasses: Apple Watch-style
Apple should launch the oft-rumored and highly-anticipated Apple AR Glasses in “Apple Watch-style” by releasing an “80% of the way there” product…
Apple CEO Tim Cook has had a remarkable run
Throughout Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple CEO, critics have lamented his lack of “the vision thing,” casting doubt on his ability to launch breakthrough products…
Apple’s story is shifting thanks to the massive success of Apple Watch and AirPods
Apple’s wearables business, which includes the Apple Watch and AirPods, are expected to show massive growth for the 2019 holiday quarter…
Apple’s AirPods make more money than Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify combined
Imagine a startup with $12 billion of revenue, 125%+ YoY revenue growth (two years in a row), and Apple-esque gross margins (30-50%)…
Apple AirPods sales totaled $6 billion this year, could generate $15 billion in 2020
Apple sold $6 billion worth of AirPods this year and should sell more than double that next year, according to Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein…
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%…
Apple’s AirPods fire up Luxshare, one of Asia’s top stocks
Luxshare is making big gains from producing Apple’s hot-selling AirPods as Cupertino’s wearables business is expected to become a growth driver…
Analyst: Apple’s new AirPods to be ‘clear star’ of Black Friday amid surging demand
Ives estimated Apple was on track to sell more than 65 million AirPods units this year and could potentially hit 90 million unit sales in 2020…
Apple AirPods demand ‘much higher’ than expected; shipments expected to double to 60 million in 2019
There’s currently a wait time of two to three weeks for the AirPods Pro on Apple’s U.S. website…
Apple’s stock will rise on sales of Apple Watch and AirPods, analyst says
Evercore analyst Amit Daryanani sees Apple’s AirPods, AirPods Pro, and Apple Watches contributing mightily to Cupertino’s revenue stream…
U.S. iPhone users more than twice as likely to own a smartwatch as Android users
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners today released analysis of the results from its research on smartphones and smartwatches…
Xiaomi gears up to peddle Apple Watch knockoff
As Xiaomi gears up to launch its 108-megapixel phone at its November 5th event, the company has also unveiled details…
Private Medicare plan Devoted Health first to offer Apple Watch as a benefit
Private health insurer Devoted Health says it is the first Medicare Advantage plan to offer Apple Watch as a benefit to its members…
This is the start of a whole new era for Apple augmented reality
Thanks to a trio of new augmented reality tools for iOS 13, and the very real possibility of an Apple AR headset on the horizon…
Canalys: Apple Watch dominates North American wearables market
The value of North America’s wearable band market reached US$2.0 billion in Q2 2019, with shipments up 38% at 7.7 million units…
Apple Watch and AirPods now make more money than iPad
Apple’s wearables division, including Apple Watch and AirPods, is now bigger than the company’s iPad business…
Sales of 18-Karat Gold Apple Watch Edition costing up to $17,000 died after first two weeks
The Watch has been Apple COO Jeff Williams’s biggest test. Months before the first model’s release in 2015…
AirPods continue to dominate the wireless hearables market
The size of the global market for true wireless hearables reached 17.5 million units in calendar Q119…
Apple finds ‘gimmicks’ like Apple Watch and AirPods wearables really count
If Apple wants to prove to doubters that there is life beyond the iPhone…
One of every three smartwatches sold worldwide is an Apple Watch
Global smartwatch shipments grew a healthy rate of 48% year-on-year…
Apple AirPods continue to dominate the hearable market with 35 million units sold last year
The global market for true wireless hearables is estimated to reach a volume of 129 million units..
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…
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…
Apple plans to add sleep tracking to Apple Watch next year
Apple Inc. is said to be testing a sleep monitor for a future version of its smartwatch…
Making sense of Apple’s frustrating wearables comparisons
Apple has a weird way of bragging about its wearables business…
NPD: Apple Watch is ‘the clear leader’ in strongly growing U.S. smartwatch market
U.S. smartwatch sales experienced strong growth with 16% of U.S. adults now owning a smartwatch…
Apple’s AirPods quickly went from initial mockery to millennial status symbol
Of all the widely ridiculed tech products, Apple’s AirPods have experienced an extraordinary turnaround…
Why is Apple going to sleep?
Why is one of the world’s largest tech companies…
How Apple’s smart clothing will be good for you
An Apple patent shows the company is exploring use of smart textiles for connected clothing…
Apple’s sleep tracking company Beddit releases new ‘3.5’ sleep monitor
arlier this week, Apple received FCC clearance with a new sleep monitor product…
How to add automatic sleep tracking to your Apple Watch
The Apple Watch Series 4 is a fantastic upgrade to Apple’s wrist-wearable accessory…
With Apple Watch Series 4, Apple started the revolution in wearable healthcare
With the recent announcement of FDA approval for the first-ever consumer wearable health device…
Apple’s third act: The wearables company
We are entering the third age of Apple. A PC company first, and now very much the trillion-dollar iPhone company…
Time is on Apple’s side
Apple has sold 52.7 million watches and that is between $14 billion to $17 billion in revenues…
The wild success of Apple Watch has created a luxury smartwatch boom
The world’s most successful watchmaker is Apple, with 2017 revenues eclipsing Rolex…
Apple is taking us through the looking glass with ARKit 2
One day, Augmented Reality (AR) will live in our glasses or contact lenses, in the photons hacked on their way to our visual receptors, or embedded right into our brains…
Apple is figuring out what’s next
Apple used this year’s WWDC to demonstrate a number of areas in which it is playing offense…
Hands-on with Apple Watch’s Walkie-Talkie feature in watchOS 5 beta 2
After appearing as a placeholder in the initial iOS 12 developer beta, Walkie-Talkie is now functional…
How ARKit 2 works, and why Apple is so focused on AR
Augmented reality (AR) has played prominently in nearly all of Apple’s events since iOS 11 was introduced…
