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The Apple Watch accounted for half of all smartwatches shipped in 2016

February 8, 2017

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Analytics firm Canalys released a report today stating that the Apple Watch continues to have a huge share of the global smartwatch market. 6 million units were delivered during the fourth calendar quarter (Apple’s fiscal first quarter), representing a huge chunk of the 9 million smartwatches that were shipped worldwide during the three-month period. For the Apple Watch, this represented a 12% increase from the number of watches it shipped during the same quarter last year. The $2.6 billion in revenue generated by the Apple Watch from October through December, a quarterly record for the product, accounted for 80% of total smartwatch gross during the period.

According to Canalys, 11.9 million Apple Watches were shipped for all of last year, helped in part by lower entry level pricing for the Series 1 models.

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