Tech: Wearables Update & a Special Guest
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 20 May 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Wearables industry expert and long-time fan of the Fool Ramon T. Llamas joins us to talk about his team’s work at IDC, what’s going on in the smartwatch and fitness wearables markets, and some trends to watch in the next couple quarters.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:06.5 | Today is Friday's show, so we're talking tech, namely I. D.C. Wearables data, since the numbers are hot off the presses. I am your host |
| 0:13.4 | Dylan Lewis and we're doing some kind of special today. I am joined on Skype |
| 0:16.7 | by the research manager for wearables and mobile phones at International |
| 0:20.3 | Data Corporation Ramon Tlamas. Ramon, how's it going? |
| 0:23.8 | It's going pretty well. |
| 0:24.8 | Thanks for having me here today. |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah, so earlier this week you guys released the quarterly update to the market share |
| 0:30.2 | data for wearables, right? |
| 0:32.4 | Always a lot of fun to put together. Oh, yeah? Mm-hmm. |
| 0:33.0 | Always a lot of fun to put together. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, yeah, and it's a lot of fun for us to digest. |
| 0:36.0 | I have to say, like, this is kind of a cool moment for me. |
| 0:38.0 | When I reached out to your PR guys about possibly getting something going on a regular basis, |
| 0:42.0 | I was not sure how enthusiastic you guys. about possibly getting something going on a regular basis. |
| 0:42.7 | I was not sure how enthusiastic you guys would be, |
| 0:45.3 | but you said you were a big fan of the fool, |
| 0:47.6 | we're obviously a big fan of your research |
| 0:49.6 | and the stuff you guys put out on a quarterly basis, |
| 0:51.2 | so it seems like kind of a match made in heaven. |
| 0:52.6 | Personally you've been a fan of the fool since 1995. Oh so you go way back. Yeah yes yes I have |
| 1:00.2 | all the books and everything. Wow yeah that's the early gardener stuff. |
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