The Apple Watch Series 7 is the best-selling smartwatch worldwide
Analyst Francisco Jeronimo has shared a small infographic about the world’s most popular smartwatches in the first quarter of the year, and to no one’s surprise, Apple absolutely dominated the rankings. The Apple Watch Series 7, the brand’s most expensive smartwatch with a starting price of $399 in the United States, became the world’s best-selling smartwatch between January and March 2022.
The Apple Watch SE continues to perform well despite its age
The world’s second most popular smartwatch in the first quarter was… Drum roll, please… Another Apple Watch! The Apple Watch SE is fast approaching its second anniversary, but its $279 price point has kept customers interested. The model offers the gorgeous design of the Apple Watch Series 4-6 but without some of the premium features like ECG support. For most customers, it’s more than enough, hence its popularity.
The Series 3 is also a best-seller, but Apple’s dropping support
While the Apple Watch Series 7 and Watch SE contributed the bulk of Apple’s smartwatch sales, the cheaper (and much older) Series 3 ultimately helped push the brand’s market share to an outstanding 51.2% in Q1 2022.
However, the Series 3 is nearing the end of its life. Despite still being on sale, Apple won’t be supporting it beyond watchOS 8. It won’t receive the watchOS 9 features announced this week and will almost certainly be discontinued in September.
Samsung was the only other brand to place smartwatches in the top 5
What about those other two spots in the top 5 smartwatch list? Well, those belong to the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic — the company’s first watches running Google’s upgraded Wear OS platform. These two smartwatches were popular enough to secure a combined 18.9% market share for Samsung, representing strong growth over Q1 2020 when the brand was still shipping Tizen-powered smartwatches.It’s clear from the latest market data that Samsung made the right decision in replacing Tizen with Wear OS. And with the company now working on the next-generation Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro, this momentum should continue into the second half of 2022 and beyond.
Behind Samsung in terms of total sales with Garmin, with a market share of 7.2%, and Huawei, with a share of 4.5%. Google-owned Fitbit occupied fifth place overall with a 3.6% share, though it’ll be interesting to see how this evolves once the Pixel Watch hits shelves this autumn.
