Worldwide Wearable Computing Device Forecast, 2020–2024: CY 1Q20
This IDC study presents the worldwide wearable computing device forecast for 2020–2024."Hearables will drive the market forward in 2020 and in the years that follow, as earwear transitions from simple audio only to audio and plus-one capabilities ranging from smart assistants and language translation to frequency modulation and noise cancelling," says Ramon T. Llamas, research director, IDC's Wearables team. "Smartwatches will also play a key role in the market's growth, ranging from specific-use devices to multifunctional devices aimed at multiple market segments. These will keep the wearables market well out in front and growing throughout our forecast period."
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- IDC Market Forecast Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Market Forecast
- Basic Wearables Versus Smart Wearables
- Wearables Forecast by Region
- Wearables Forecast by Product
- Wearables Forecast by Segment
- Market Context
- Drivers and Inhibitors
- Drivers
- Iteration Beyond Second-Generation Devices
- Entrance of More Vendors and Devices
- Proliferation of Products
- Inhibitors
- Lukewarm Reception Within the Mass Market
- Exodus of Wearables Vendors
- Significant Market Developments
- Changes from Prior Forecast
- Market Definition
- Methodology
- Primary Data Sources
- Secondary Sources
- IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker
- Related Research
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