{"id":55928,"date":"2025-10-02T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/55928\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:51:11","slug":"huawei-tops-apple-in-global-smartwatch-share-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/55928\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei tops Apple in global smartwatch share for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/consumer\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Chinese company&#8217;s devices prove a hit with cost-conscious consumers<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20251001N Huawei watch\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Electronics retailers in Japan say\u00a0Huawei smartwatches are a popular choice.\u00a0(Photo by Mana Kubota)<\/p>\n<p>HITOMI IZAWA<\/p>\n<p>October 2, 2025 00:56 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Smartwatch shipments from Chinese telecom hardware giant Huawei Technologies have surpassed Apple to make it the world&#8217;s top seller, in part due to better cost performance as consumers look to save money.<\/p>\n<p>Global smartwatch shipments in the April-June period rose 8% year-on-year to 34.4 million units, according to Counterpoint Research. Huawei saw a 53% increase to around 7.2 million units, taking the top spot for the first time with a 21% global market share.<\/p>\n<p>Apple smartwatch shipments fell 3% to 5.8 million units for the same period, the seventh consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline. Apple&#8217;s market share was 17% for April-June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer Chinese company&#8217;s devices prove a hit with cost-conscious consumers Electronics retailers in Japan say\u00a0Huawei smartwatches are a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[47085,351,356,1437,1311,111,139,69,2122,1802,145,2044,2726],"class_list":{"0":"post-55928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-1st","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-global","12":"tag-huawei","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-share","17":"tag-smartwatch","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-time","20":"tag-tops"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}