Life in the wearables market yet
 

IDC insists that the market is growing and changing

Beancounters at IDC think that despite no one actually money from wearables, there is some life in the market.

According to a new report, as the wearables market transforms, total shipment volumes are expected to maintain their forward momentum.

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, vendors will ship a total of 125.5 million wearable devices in 2017, marking a 20.4 per cent increase from the 104.3 million units shipped in 2016. From there, the wearables market will nearly double before reaching a total of 240.1 million units shipped in 2021, resulting in a five-year CAGR of 18.2 per cent.

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