That's actually how I determined whether or not I should keep mine. I wore it for nearly the entire two-week trial period, and on the days that I wasn't wearing it noticed if I missed it or not. I felt that I could do without it. It wasn't really feeling like a "must have" device like my iPhone did. Ended up returning it.
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Apple Watch Beats Original iPhone and iPad in Customer Satisfaction Among Early Adopters
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That's actually how I determined whether or not I should keep mine. I wore it for nearly the entire two-week trial period, and on the days that I wasn't wearing it noticed if I missed it or not. I felt that I could do without it. It wasn't really feeling like a "must have" device like my iPhone did. Ended up returning it.
@Kroo looked up your point just fine.
We're still waiting for your example of a smart watch featuring a battery that lasts for "years".
Fitbit Charge does all this. Arguably it's a better fitness tracker, too. It's sleeker and lighter, has a simple UI and the battery lasts a week!
I think if you're not using the higher-end, more exclusive features of the Apple Watch (like Apple Pay, Siri, etc) then there are better products on the market.
Well, not a totally fair comparison because the success of each product has propelled apple's stock higher (literally and figuratively), so each new product launch rides the wave created by all of the previous successful products. Apple's profile is so high now that they're bound to sell a good number of almost anything they make, which wasn't the case when they launched the earlier products on that list.
As I said before, I do think Apple watch is selling well and is far from a flop, but many of its sales are undoubtably driven by the brand loyalty created by its predecessors.
In 2007 there were no "hipsters."
I suspect that the 2007 Apple customer base had a higher proportion of "hipsters" than the 2015 Apple customer base, which enjoys a higher share of the mainstream market.
In which case, Wristly's findings are an even stronger endorsement of Apple Watch than the 2007 research findings regarding iPhone.
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Except that the usability of Apple Watch is entirely dependent upon already owning an iPhone (not an iPad, iPod or any Mac computer).
Which surely makes it an even greater success than any previous Apple product.
I live in Miami, the most wannabe city I have ever been after Dubai. I work in a tech/multimedia company with some 400 people in Midtown which is an area of artists, young people and money. And until today I haven't seen the first Apple Watch in the wild, just in Apple Stores. I have friends with McLarens, there are two different BMW i8 in my building already, my best friend works in PPRR and he can find $400 million in 3 days if you need it for a business and I haven't seen the first Apple Watch in my circle, people have way better options. Not even the Cuban escorts in this city has them and they are mayor gold diggers. My point is that I do not know what demographic and where they are getting those numbers. When the iPad came out there where waiting lines everywhere, de demand was sick.
It is really sad Apple making up those numbers but that is what they have to do. They are not going to do like Steve Job when he mentioned the hockey puck mouse was their worst mouse ever, and I remember those because my step-brother used to tied me with them as a kid. But eventually they are going to end up as popular as the Apple TV. Actually, an Apple TV has been more useful since it came out.
It is really sad Apple making up those numbers but that is what they have to do. They are not going to do like Steve Job when he mentioned the hockey puck mouse was their worst mouse ever, and I remember those because my step-brother used to tied me with them as a kid. But eventually they are going to end up as popular as the Apple TV. Actually, an Apple TV has been more useful since it came out.
Actually Ben Bajarin said the early adopter techie crowd was more negative on Watch than others they talked to (it wasn't just an online survey)
It's typical for surveys that you do not find the option for what you really feel. Taken a few and
maybe one can believe half of what gets distilled.
Then a twist (Somewhat satisfied is not dissatisfied) and it all looks good.
Sorry, I am still waiting for that thing to make sense for me.
Congrats to all satisfied users.
What numbers is Apple making up? And when did Steve Jobs ever say they hockey puck mouse was their worst movies ever?!?
I agree, but you did not quote the rest of my statement. A big problem right now is that the 3rd party apps don't work very well. Apple Pay is fantastic, but finding places to use it is still a challenge (at least in the US where having a reader means nothing since most vendors have it turned off). Siri is great for short dictations on text messages (I have not tried the "Hey Siri" function), but most of the times I would actually use Siri I am in a crowd which means that it is not going to work well. I do use the remote to advance songs at home, but have not tried it with the Apple TV.
Most of all, I own two apple watches at this point, so why would I ditch them and buy a fitbit? Your suggestion does not seem to make sense....
Original iPod required a Mac. It later got PC support but not gen 1. That's far more of a restriction, based on installed user base (especially macs in 2001 vs iPhones in 2015).
I can't recall if the original iPhone required a Mac. I think a PC with iTunes worked too but am not positive. Edit: Everymac.com reports that the iPhone 2g did in fact work with a pc running iTunes. So my point is to the iPod only.
Nope:
You're pretending to compare one thing with something that's entirely different.
I stand corrected (I haven't checked, but I'll trust you). So let's review:
iPod : 125,000 units.
Apple Watch: still a huge success.
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So I guess a survey posted on Crackberry.com would show Blackberry is still the main smartphone seller, first in a lot of domains and that 75% people will get a blackberry next.
Hey, that's far from the truth !
You read that wrong. Not all the people who bought the Watch returned it, I was talking about the group who did.
I'm not "anti-Apple Watch", just pointing out that a lot of people returned it, as seen here on the forums. And exaggerating a bit of course. You must really love the Watch, it would almost seem like you take it personally...
I don't know about you, but I felt like more people were considering returning there Watch or saying that they didn't know what to with it then when the iPhone or iPad came out. iPad might have been close, but the iPhone? Smartwatches are just a different game. At least, that's just what I thought.
Which I don't disagree with and have never disagreed with. But I do think it's pretty clear that apple's overall rising tide has lifted the boat of each new product. I mean just look at the 4 you listed, if we rearrange them in chronological release order: Mac, 50k; iPod 125k; iPhone 1.1m; iPad 3.3m.
There's an obvious upward trend that corresponds to apple's rise from niche to dominant. The more good products they release, the higher the tide rises, and the better the *next* good product does. Then that next product is a success, and it helps push the overall brand that much higher yet again.
The watch is successful, sure, but its success at least in part stands on the tremendous brand reputation built by the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Surely you wouldn't disagree with that?
You need to factor in the current user base, and what the user base was in the previous products you noted. How many apple watches do you think would have sold in 1984?
You will find that in 1984 50,000 units was impressive.
Personally I think apple is disappointed by its most successful product to ever launch...... in 2015.
No, that shows that, of Crackberry members (a very high percentage of which being BlackBerry owners), BlackBerry was the biggest selling brand, 75% will buy another BlackBerry, etc, etc.
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Well constructed reply. As the Brand becomes more popular and desirable, naturally the sales numbers go up as the user base grows.
There is a keynote when he is mention it. He even say we are sorry or something like that and he came up with the optical mouse for every desktop since then because the hockey puck was only for the ctr iMacs. I had to watch that keynote in school.
I convinced myself that I wanted one for a big week long conference and I returned it.
- I thought the interface was so clunky that I could barely tell time. I'm sure there must have been ways to customize some of the behaviors but I only had 14 days to return it. If there was, it should have been intuitive.
- I thought I'd love the bar code scanning but it was actually uncomfortable trying to twist my wrist so that various scanners (Starbucks, Boarding Passes, etc) actually worked - I got frustrated and just took out my phone to do "simple" tasks more often than not.
- Then I thought I charged it one night, but the hotel plug didn't work and it died the next morning so I ended up wearing a dead watch all day. It didn't help that it used a non-standard charger either.
So no, I hated it.