{"id":831907,"date":"2026-08-31T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831907\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:58:32","slug":"huawei-overtakes-apple-as-global-smartwatch-market-shrinks-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831907\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei overtakes Apple as global smartwatch market shrinks 4%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global smartwatch shipments market share    \t\t<\/p>\n<p>Brands<br \/>\nQ1 2025<br \/>\nQ2 2025<br \/>\nQ3 2025<br \/>\nQ4 2025<br \/>\nQ1 2026<br \/>\nQ2 2026<\/p>\n<p>Apple<br \/>\n20%<br \/>\n17%<br \/>\n23%<br \/>\n32%<br \/>\n23%<br \/>\n20%<\/p>\n<p>Others<br \/>\n80%<br \/>\n83%<br \/>\n77%<br \/>\n68%<br \/>\n77%<br \/>\n80%<\/p>\n<p>Market highlights:    \t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Global smartwatch shipments declined 4% YoY in Q2 2026. Apple slipped to the second spot, with 20% market share, surpassed by Huawei at 22%.<br \/>\nAmong the top 5 brands, Apple recorded the fastest YoY growth at 14%.<br \/>\nRegionally, North America saw the highest shipment growth at 8%, followed by China at 7%, Apple led growth in North America. China shipments were driven by the rise of Chinese leaders including Huawei and Imoo as a result of Chinese government\u2019s electronic subsidy scheme.<br \/>\nIn North America, HLOS smartwatch shipments grew 4% YoY in Q2 2026. Market leader Apple grew 13% YoY, while Garmin rose 6% YoY; Samsung\u2019s shipments fell 13% YoY.<\/p>\n<p>Counterpoint Research    \t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>    \t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global smartwatch shipments market share Brands Q1 2025 Q2 2025 Q3 2025 Q4 2025 Q1 2026 Q2 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[166,74],"class_list":["post-831907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}