If you think that wearables are just a fad and will go away as quickly as they came, you might be wrong. At first glance, wearables seem to be the fastest growing segment of the market. Canalys estimates that around 4.5 million wearables were sold in the first half of this year, which is an incredible 700% increase. ProThe problem is that as many wearable devices were sold in the first half of this year, Apple new iPhone only for the first weekend.
So the numbers sound interesting if we don't compare them with anything else, as soon as we look, for example, at the market of mobile phones with an operating system, i.e. so-called smartphones, we find out that 300 million smartphones were sold in just three months of this year. However, it is also necessary to take into account the fact that he has not even sown in this field for the time being AppleNor Microsoft and not even other big players in the market who can turn a market of several million into a market of several hundred million.
*Source: canalys.com
