Apple Shipped 3.5M Watches in Q2 2018, 30% More Than Last Year

[Michael Scrip]

Market share usually also relates to market segment the product competes in.
Comparing a $80 "smart" watch to any Apple Watch is not really telling you anything.
Apple likely massively owns the high to mid-end smart watch segment.

Yep! Agreed

 

[Dustonfoster]

I wonder if the numbers would explode if Apple made them compatible with Android (a la iPod and windows).
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Not sure where you're getting your facts from... Yes everything CAN break, but many many of us (myself included) are on their Day 1 Series 0 Apple Watch and going strong. I'm sorry if you've had bad luck. I'm getting Series 4 for sure. Can't wait!

Zero problems with my S0 and S2. So far so good.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Zero problems with my S0 and S2. So far so good.

I never had any hardware issues with my series 0. It got slow and the battery degraded but this was more to do with the hardware aging over time. It didn’t have any manufacturing defects. I used it from launch day 2015 until the end of December 2017. It still worked when I sold it. I upgraded to the series 3 and I’ve bewn happy with it so far.

 

[The Game 161]

Be interesting how much bigger the series 4 will be screen wise.

 

[DNAppleGold]

Zero problems with my S0 and S2. So far so good.

Same. It was always was a bit pokey and more so as the battery naturally degrades. But it’s been rock solid from both hardware and software perspective.

 

[Sevendaymelee]

Still rocking my iPhone+analog wrist watch. Can't see a need for anything more.

 

[gnasher729]

A question for you, I was told by my brother in law he thinks he paid for something that was 60 ish pounds using Apple pay and his iPhone. Now I thought like in Tesco it's limited to a max of £30, is this true or can you actually use Apple Pay for more then £30 purchases, to me it would make sense due to the security unlike your wireless payment using a card.

It depends on the card terminal.

Older terminals don't actually accept Apple Pay - instead your iPhone or Apple watch behaves as if it was a contactless payment card, and contactless payment cards are limited to £30. The limit must be quite low, because anyone stealing your contactless card can use it to make purchases, and the terminal doesn't know it's not a contactless card.

Modern terminals recognise Apple Pay, so they know a more secure method is used (they can be quite sure it's either you, or a person you can use the finger print sensor on your phone), so the limits are higher. How high I don't know.

 

[ErikGrim]

It depends on the card terminal.

Older terminals don't actually accept Apple Pay - instead your iPhone or Apple watch behaves as if it was a contactless payment card, and contactless payment cards are limited to £30. The limit must be quite low, because anyone stealing your contactless card can use it to make purchases, and the terminal doesn't know it's not a contactless card.

Modern terminals recognise Apple Pay, so they know a more secure method is used (they can be quite sure it's either you, or a person you can use the finger print sensor on your phone), so the limits are higher. How high I don't know.

I paid AUD2,600 for a scooter using my watch and didn't even have to put in my pin.