Wearables on the up again as prices slide

The global market for wearable devices returned to growth in the second quarter of the year, but while the rise of smaller players helped to drive shipments, it also contributed to falling prices.
So says IDC, which this week shared new market data and forecasts for the wearables space. Its headline finding showed unit shipments grew by 8.5% year-on-year in the three months to the end of June to 116.3 million devices, the growth coming after two quarters of decline.
Those Q2 numbers mean that ID