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48%

48% -- unit sales growth rate for Smartwatches (2016)

2016  · Gartner, Inc.

Smartwatch adoption is forecast to experience 48 percent growth.

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https://electronicsnews.com.au/sales-of-smartwatches-to-total-50-4-million-units-in-2016/ ↗
Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2016 Channel: Deep Crawl
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- Invisible radar a boost for defence - Lighting event part of Sydney’s Vivid - RF switches for an array of applications - Is a legal dispute with Apple costing chip maker Qualcomm? Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 274.6 million wearable electronic devices will be sold worldwide in 2016, an increase of …
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Gartner forecast, attributed to Apple popularizing wearables

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Smartwatches: 48% unit sales growth rate. Source: Gartner, Inc. (2016). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/smartwatch-adoption-growth-2016
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/smartwatch-adoption-growth-2016" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>48%</strong> -- unit sales growth rate for Smartwatches<br><small>Source: Gartner, Inc. (2016) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/smartwatch-adoption-growth-2016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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