US retail mcommerce sales grew 41.4% during the pandemic year of 2020 and are set to double from this elevated base by 2025. This report looks at what’s driving this growth and how sellers should respond.

What’s next for smartwatch vendors lagging behind Apple? Healthcare consumers are worried about privacy—a factor Apple competitors could take into account more this year to prop up the value of their wearables in the eyes of potential customers. Read more about smartwatches and supply chains.

While the “supply has been a constant battle for many companies during 2021, many of the issues began to subside [in Q4’21] and allowed brands to ship record volumes while broadening their product lines,” according to IDC. What’s next for smartwatch vendors lagging behind Apple?

Global insurers have been rocked by large, unexpected payouts and falling revenues amid the coronavirus pandemic. Yet, P&C and life insurers in leading markets will still increase their tech spend and accelerate their digital transformations in the next several years to enhance the online user experience.

What’s next? Voice-based clinical assistants are gaining investor attention, but it’ll be difficult for entrants to carve into the market with the threat of Microsoft-owned voice assistant Nuance.

For comparison, in 2021, Epic had a nearly 33% stake in the market, up from 31% the year before. What’s next? Oracle’s acquisition of Cerner could help the EHR company broaden its AI voice tech to attract new health system clients over the next few years.

What's the state of the smart speaker market, in terms of adoption, share, key platforms, and use? What are the ways that consumers are using smart speakers and how can companies capitalize on this data to leverage the platform? What's next for the voice interface and medium? WHAT’S IN THIS REPORT? In this report, Insider Intelligence examines the fast-evolving smart speaker market.

New AirPods, for example, are rumored to include various health sensors. Apple’s Dominance Will Be Challenged by Tech Competitors. Apple towers over today’s smartwatch and hearable markets, and it’s well-positioned at the top of the smartphone market. AirPods will account for 31.1% of the US hearables market this year. Apple Watch users will represent 46.2% of US smartwatch users.

What’s next? Leaving 3G behind will likely lead customers to choose 5G as the most future-proof option, which could result in an uptick in 5G subscriptions and new smartphone sales. As for security and IoT services, upgrading from 3G is likely to be a more complex and expensive undertaking.

What’s next? Wearable makers need to improve user design and experience to get their devices to stick. Ease of use is probably the biggest driver of whether consumers actually use the wearables prescribed by their doctors. Adherence and regular usage is extremely important to gauge the effectiveness of wearables in improving health outcomes.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 featured a reimagined world of commerce and marketing: The products displayed in Las Vegas last week revealed new ways for marketers to blend the physical and virtual worlds.

For context, Wear OS’s market share has been gradually whittled down into irrelevance. Samsung’s own Tizen OS-powered smartwatch releases have seen some success, despite Tizen’s lack of an app ecosystem and its struggle for wider adoption beyond Samsung loyalists. What’s next? The consolidated smartwatch platform has the opportunity to fill a void in the wearables space.

What’s next: Amazon’s workers’ vote against unionization in one of their busiest distribution centers is a setback for organized labor in Big Tech. Since labor movements come in waves, this defeat could stifle the momentum of several union actions. Conversely, companies like Amazon could decide that union-busting is effective, and they could redouble efforts to stop movements in their tracks.

What’s next? Healthcare cloud adoption is expected to skyrocket in coming years, and Microsoft is well positioned to be a leader in this growing market. Healthcare cloud adoption is expected to spike from 27% to 51% in the next three years, per a March 2022 Nutatix Cloud Index report.

The number of mobile apps for health condition management is rising. This report examines how smartphone apps can help users control diseases and what gaps need to be filled before more consumers, providers, and payers get on board.

The use of voice assistants among US adults is growing as both consumers and companies find more use cases for conversational AI technologies.

Google is mobilizing a consolidation of Wear OS, Fitbit, and Samsung’s Tizen OS under its new Wear platform, slated for launch later this year. It will need developer support as well as massive consumer buy-in to catch up. What’s next? Apple can keep dominating the wearables market by continuing to add and refine features focused on health, fitness, and safety.