Wearable devices will continue to grow at a steady pace, but Apple's market share is likely to slip

After recently tracking an impressive 21.7 percent year-on-year growth in Q3 shipments of wearable devices around the world, the International Data Corporation (IDC) is now ready to forecast the market will be up a solid 8.5 percent all in all in 2018 compared to 2017.

That would amount to a grand total of 125.3 million units shipped globally this year, a number that the IDC expects to surge to around 190 million in 2022. Such long-term projections are always risky and hard to get just right, but recent market trends are making the bulk of analysts and research firms similarly optimistic ...