They can paper this with a many numbers as they want but 3 million units in a world of billions is a product failure. Go to an apple store and look at the watch table. its easy to find. Just follow the sound of the crickets.
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Apple Named World's Largest Wearables Vendor With an Estimated 3.5M Apple Watch Shipments in Q1 2017
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There is a magic combination of price, utility, functionality, ease, and aesthetics that can make the Apple Watch wildly successful. Maybe even iPad status. Tim may want to reconsider where those things should intersect on a diagram. Because the screen is too small and most people don't have a need to track their health. It should probably be weighted more heavily towards price, utility, away from functionality, and higher on the aesthetics scale (thinner, rounder). Bands are covered, great job on those.
Even the blind can see the Watch will soon generate far more money for Apple than the Mac. ...And even help them navigate around the city too.
I love my Apple Watch. There are a number of things I'd like to see improved, but that is the case with anything. Looking forward to next version.
When the watch came out no one had one. Fast forward a a couple of years later and everyone and their mother has one. Yes, even elementary students.
Although i never see anyone using it. There always on the phone. For me, i only use it when i jog to keep track. I always have the phone with me so its more hassle than its worth to try and dictate or scribble anything.
Although i never see anyone using it. There always on the phone. For me, i only use it when i jog to keep track. I always have the phone with me so its more hassle than its worth to try and dictate or scribble anything.
Love my Apple Watch. I hope it continues to be a success for Apple so they continue making them. I read articles all the time from ignorant places like The Verge that continue to say the smart watch market is dead. Just because Android Wear isn't doing good doesn't mean the Apple Watch isn't.
I would not even consider getting any other smartwatch except for the Apple Watch. Just that after this, I will just try to keep it working for as long as possible and not upgrade if possible.
Ah, the typical macrumors commenter.
Time for some history lessons, wouldn't you agree?
At the start of 2009, apple sold around 4.3 million iPhones, and it was in its second year.
https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/21Apple-Reports-First-Quarter-Results.html
I guess that also was a product failure…
It's a wearable. it's not all about features. I don't own a smart watch but the one thing that strikes me about the non-Apple ones is how unattractive and not-wearable some of these wearables are. Most companies seem to be playing to the geek crowd and making their watch look like something vaguely Star Trek-ish. I think most of what Fitbit has produced is terrible looking and the Android world is a hodge-podge of the good, the bad and the ugly (mostly the ugly. Seriously, go do a Google Image search for "Android smart watch" and tell me you're not repulsed by most of what you see.) Apple, despite being mocked for it, cozied up to the fashion industry early on and angled for that aspect, probably knowing the rest of the tech industry would be blind to it.
Tell time, Apple Pay, Stream music to AirPods, stopwatch, timer, alarm, fitness tracking, tennis score keeper, calculator, shopping list, voice recorder, airplane boarding pass. I'm sure there are more, but these are a few things I have used mine for. I have an original, and Gen 2, wear it all day from the time I get up to go to sleep. At night it becomes my bed side clock and alarm clock. I use the watch more than my iPhone now.
Some people are clearly foolish to think 3 million units sold is a failure. a two year product it is way ahead of it's time in terms of sales. It does everything you need from a smart watch to do.
Then how come watches with LTE connectivity aren’t selling at all? You know, like the LG Urbane and the Samsung S3 that don’t even register on this report.
the dock is simply awesome to me
football scores
NBA scores
365 scores
eurosport
weather
reminders
facebook messenger
music
all I need for quick glances on the go.
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as somebody who had LTE on my samsung gear..to me it was useless and i never used it and rarely ever in a position where i would be without my phone. waste of a sim
It is billions, I make it approx 14M units a year or at $300 per unit- $4.2B in sales.
Assuming Swatch are the largest watch maker in the world at $8B approx turnover, Apple are half way to taking over Swatch at the worlds biggest watch company......in less than 2 years!
Swatch established 1983.
Apple watch 2015.
Apple watch is doing very well.
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Apple knows how to build it's business, the iPod, iPhone, iPad all were new products that the first two years sold but did not do the numbers until they refined the OS', got the apps together. Of course they get more in the wild, discontinue gens so people get discounted ones, adjust the pricing. It is their pattern in the end it works.
Xiaomi is not even on the same game...
A $14.99 sports band does not compete, it's even several times cheaper than the cheapest Apple Watch strap.
IDC generally tries very hard to make a bad picture for Apple, but not even with their lousy tricks they can get away with the reality this time.
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What exactly did sell a billion of units?
Do you even know what a billion of anything is?
I didn’t buy the Series 1 because you needed the phone for it to work , so a few months ago decided to buy the Series 2 because of the ability to work by itself, bought the aluminum one thinking if I don’t like I can resell it easier than the stainless steel, and I if do like it, sell it and buy the stainless steel Series 3 when it comes out.
I’ll definitely be buying the stainless steel Series 3 or whatever name they give it, just like you said, great for tracking my runs and some other exercise, motivates me to do more exercise than before, so yeah, it doesn’t need a camera to take 4k video or millions of features, a smart watch is a companion to the cellular device, it is not supposed to replace it like some people say.
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What else do you want a smart watch to do??
And also, series 1 sucks, and you're saying you are not buying a watch but yet you have no idea what series 3 new features will have, seriously??
You can make calls without the iPhone with the Series 2 just in case you really need to make a call over wifi, all you have to do is connect to a wifi from your iPhone, let say, the closest Starbucks to your house, then when you go for a run and really need to call someone, go into the Starbucks and make a call, you need to activate call over wifi first, but yeah, you can basically make phone calls over wifi without your iPhone.