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IDC Forecasts Sustained Double-Digit Growth for Wearable Devices

Will be led by steady adoption of smartwatches.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

Global shipments of wearable devices are forecasted to reach 125.3 million units in 2018, up 8.5% from 2017, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker.    The growing popularity of smartwatches and greater wearables adoption in emerging markets will combine to produce a five-year compound annual growth rate of 11% with shipments jumping to 189.9 million units in 2022. “The transition from basic wearables to smart wearab...

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