Apple Held Top Spot in Global Smartwatch Market in Q4 2020, Shipping 13 Million Apple Watch Series 6 and SE Models

[Rochy Bay]

“Second largest” after “Others”??? How about an edit to correct this. “Others” is only a grab-bag of all the other unidentified manufacturers - Apple was the largest by a huge margin.

Its really a copy of every feature other fitness and smartwatches have done long ago and they shoved an app store to it to force developers to make it more interesting. This includes the sleeping feature it can’t even keep up with the battery. If you want to be the top leading watch you need to innovate. Too greedy of a company imho and a watch thats boring and rather everywhere now.

 

[Rochy Bay]

I still have my Apple Watch 0 and it is still running with the original battery. What a product it has been. I need to upgrade. Most likely this Christmas.

Really? I bought a series 3 for $50 and returned it because of how sluggish it was. Good for you.

 

[Rochy Bay]

Apple's sudden overtaking of the market can be attributed to the new Apple Watch SE's success, the mid-range Apple Watch option. Apple released the SE model alongside its flagship Series 6 at a lower $279 price point, with some caveats such as the lack of an always-on display, ECG functionality, and the faster S6 processor.

The rest of the tech industry could be in some serious trouble if apple keep releasing these mid range products with flagship processors.

Should've entered the midrange market ages ago.

Basically, they were able to sell some only once they cheapened the product with less features and quality. Anyone who uses Android can now use Fitbit which actually has more battery life and is an actual health device. I feel that Fitness+ should be brought to anti-trust by other fitness apps just like Spotify vs Apple.

 

[tongxinshe]

What about Xiaomi? The last time I checked, it is very popular in a lot of regions.

 

[Abazigal]

Basically, they were able to sell some only once they cheapened the product with less features and quality. Anyone who uses Android can now use Fitbit which actually has more battery life and is an actual health device. I feel that Fitness+ should be brought to anti-trust by other fitness apps just like Spotify vs Apple.

This is precisely what I was talking about in the other thread.

In what bizarro world is a great user experience for the customer, made possible by Apple's tight integration between hardware, software and services, suddenly a sign of monopolistic behaviour by Apple?

 

[Vasilisxd]

Now imagine what the market share would look like if it was compatible with Android.

This cannot be done. You would need access to AppStore to download apps , and that apps somehow should be compatible and communicate with the Android version (if available) and the WearOS should have compatibility with Android. There are more issues than that and even if they fix them , the experience wont be the same.