Apple Dominates Global Smartwatch Sales.

Byline: Felix Richter

When Apple introduced the Apple Watch in September 2014, it had impossible shoes to fill. After all, the company's first foray into the nascent wearable's market was supposed to emulate the iPhone's unprecedented success, a task that the iPad had failed to accomplish a couple of years earlier. In hindsight however, the Apple Watch must be considered a blockbuster success, even if at a considerably smaller scale than the iPhone.

When the iPhone was released in 2007, it became synonymous with an entirely new class of devices, paving the way for touchscreen phones to become mainstream and thus marking the dawn of the modern smartphone era. While the Apple Watch certainly wasn't the first smart watch around, it did help wearable technology break through to...