Say what you like about Apple (and I’ve never held back from some harsh words about the brand) but the team in Cupertino certainly knows how to get us coming back for more. However ridiculously expensive the products are, however easy it is to smash those screens and however crazy it is that the phones,…
So Apple is the coolest brand again this year. Really? I’d have thought a brand that’s owned by zillions of us would have been too commonplace to be cool. But the panel that decides these things has spoken. Actually, I was on that panel for a few years and not many of the names in…
The global wearable device market took a big step forward in Q4, but are we any closer to a world in which wearables are a sic-fi-like part of our everyday clothing? Hmmm. Not really. But that’s not to say wearables aren’t becoming more important to us.
Research specialist Gartner is throwing its weight behind smartwatches to make more of an impact in a wearables market currently dominated by low-cost fitness bands. Should Fitbit be worried? Probably not. Gartner expects 274.6m wearable electronic devices to be sold worldwide in 2016, an increase of 18.4% from 232m units in 2015. Sales of wearable…
Shock, Horror. Outrage. Apple’s Q1 iPhone sales grew at their slowest rate since the product’s 2007 launch and are even expected to fall later this year. Does this mean the end of the world as we know it? Well, some of the headlines following Apple’s Q1 results announcement Tuesday would suggest it does. But let’s…
What’s the top wearable technology brand? No, it’s not one named after a fruit. It’s the (relatively) humble Fitbit, which managed to keep its lead in the global wearables sector in Q3, despite both Apple and Xiaomi giving it a run for its money in second and third places. The latest sector report from research…
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