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Apple Watch Demand Slides Significantly in June as Launch Momentum Wanes

You can debate how much Google trends matter when it comes to product popularity, but when the iPod is back to beating the Watch in searches that isn't a good thing. If sales and demand is as strong as some argue shouldn't we see that line on a slow upward path after dropping from an initial spike? It's on a downward trend and people seem to have more interest in the iPod right now.

http://www.google.com/trends/explor...e=today+12-m&cmpt=q&tz=Etc/GMT+4&tz=Etc/GMT+4
 
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Well - Apple could easily put an end to all this speculation if they reported the quarterly results of all product categories properly - like any respectable public company should be mandated to do (especially for newly launched products). Not doing so is a huge d... move by Apple, IMHO.
 
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paysdoufs said:
Well - Apple could easily put an end to all this speculation if they reported the quarterly results of all product categories properly - like any respectable public company should be mandated to do (especially for newly launched products). Not doing so is a huge d... move by Apple, IMHO.
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How so? How does it affect you personally?
 
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ninethirty said:
Oh this dumb argument. I see iPhones or major competitors every minute of every day. You know how many smart watches I see? Pretty close to 0. I don't live at home. I'm out all the time. Bars, popular restaurants, all over Chicago. I travel a lot as well. I've literally never seen a single person wearing an Apple Watch aside from the one I bought and briefly wore. They are not a popular thing with people.
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Yes because comparing iPhone to a new product makes a lot of sense.
Great argument there
 
When the iPhone came out, I saw plenty of them awfully quickly - everyone in the line of work I do wanted one. But EVERYONE had a cell phone of some type still. I'm not seeing other smart watches instead of Apple watches. I'm not seeing smart watches at all. Nobody I know or work with is even the least bit interested. To be honest, it's a bit of a joke. When I bought one, I got made fun of.

But let's leave that behind. Are you arguing that the Apple Watch is a popular desireable device for the masses and that I've just not been paying attention, and that I should be seeing them everywhere?

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Yes because comparing iPhone to a new product makes a lot of sense.
Great argument there
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iPhone pre-orders were also limited to the US only, whereas the Apple Watch launched in 9 countries.



BaldiMac said:
:) Goes to show the problem with anecdotal evidence. Apple watch preorders were larger than the first quarter of iPhone sales.
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Rogifan said:
You suspect sales have dived; there is no real market for smart watches. And your sources for this (besides just being your opinion) are?

Below are the cumulative sales of iPod, iPhone and iPad. As you can see iPad is the only one that was hugely successful from day one. iPod took quite a while to take off and didn't happen until iTunes came to Windows. Thankfully Apple leadership plays the long game.

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soooo you quoted me stating the obvious, that it's an opinion, then you posted an utterly useless graph of sales of devices that are NOT the Apple Watch in some vein attempt to show I don't know what.....

Post a graph of Apple Watch sales, the topic in hand, and lets see if those sales have 'dived' as I suspect.
 
apolloa said:
soooo you quoted me stating the obvious, that it's an opinion, then you posted an utterly useless graph of sales of devices that are NOT the Apple Watch in some vein attempt to show I don't know what.....

Post a graph of Apple Watch sales, the topic in hand, and lets see if those sales have 'dived' as I suspect.
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Dived from what? It's not like Watch was selling gangbusters. And I doubt Apple was expecting it to. Let's talk again a year or two from now.
 
NachoGrande said:
You get mad about a comment... I feel badly for you....
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Thank you! I appreciate someone feeling badly for me. :) My assumption is you didn't read my response correctly. I said it is just a comment by someone TRYING to get people mad. I'm not mad at all. There are over 700 posts here in response to an internet based sales quote on the watch and 90% of the posts are people saying HA HA and others getting defensive. My point was to say don't let it bother you. People will make things up to get others riled up. That's why there are over 700 posts. People love to laugh at Apple if something goes wrong or doesn't look good and then an equal number of people will defend apple because they like apple products. I personally like to read both but it is hard when people make stuff up and post it as facts. That makes people get upset but I just laugh or try to correct them.

Bottom line is you are right from your early predictions (so far). The Apple Watch may not sell as much as originally predicted because it has some limitations without the iPhone with gen 1 and o/s version 1. Apple stated from the beginning you needed the iPhone so it shouldn't be a shock, but I am pleasantly surprised by how much you can do without the iPhone with you. I absolutely love the Apple Watch and can't weight for o/s 2.0 for native apps. Makes the Apple Watch even more independent from the iPhone.
 
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Was just at my local Apple Store and it was crazy busy as usual... Except no one was at either the apple watch display tables or demo units!

All though I think the watch has great potential, I don't think it can maintain the year-to-year growth that the phone has. Phones are meant to be upgraded, watches historically not.
 
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NachoGrande said:
What can it do? Weather? Nope, Stocks, nope.... O I can play music as long as I have a pair of blu tooth headphones.. Last time I checked it didn't come with head phones..... Or I can just buy an iPod(o they discontinued the model that worked just like the watch for a fraction of the price)
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Actually, you are way way off. I can turn off my iphone and get stock quotes, weather updates, send messages to other people, receive messages from other people. I can leave my iPhone at home and go to work 45 miles away and still get stock quotes, weather updates, sent and receive iMessages, ask siri to do things for me, I can do workouts and track my steps and miles and heart rate. Should I go on? I can go to any coffee shop I normally use and continue to do all of the above with no iPhone on or with me. I can ask siri to search the internet and get responses back. I could accidentally leave my iPhone on a plane that lands in China and still do all of the above. :)
 
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dblackwood72 said:
Was just at my local Apple Store and it was crazy busy as usual... Except no one was at either the apple watch display tables or demo units!

All though I think the watch has great potential, I don't think it can maintain the year-to-year growth that the phone has. Phones are meant to be upgraded, watches historically not.
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I was at the Mall of America Apple Store and the staff said they get about 100-200 calls to the store each day and about 70% are people asking if they have the Apple Watch in stock and which models and sizes. Don't know if that translates to sales and I don't really care.

You are right about the year over year growth and iPhone will constantly be upgraded. I think the iPhone represents 70% of apples sales of all products. The Apple Watch might be 2% but make them about 500mm to 1billion in profits each year. Based on $200 profit per watch sold and selling about 3mm to 5mm watches.
 
NachoGrande said:
The watch can only tell time without having an iPhone. I'm amazed that is sold as many as it did, but just liked I figured people would see if for what it really is.... I still find mine useless, but I do like the ping feature since I always lose my phone.
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Oh man, you are posting this all over? The watch can do many many things besides the time without the iPhone - even with the iPhone not on or in another state. :) You can read my other post about the long list of things it can do without the iPhone.

Actually, I am not really thinking the opposite of you on the Apple Watch - even though I like it, it is too expensive to be a big seller and with it being the first gen, it makes it look worse but they have to start somewhere. The original iPhone was very very weak and didn't have the apps like it does now.

I think smart watches are here to stay and hopefully everyone keeps pushing the market forward.
 
ninethirty said:
This is like saying that Google is crushing the dorky augmented glasses sector.
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Well, not really. No one else is making those ugly google glasses. Several companies were making smart watches before Apple and Apple sold more in Pre-Sales than all other companies did in a year and have now sold more than all other companies combined since inception (based on 3mm-4mm sold).

I didn't think the graph told much other than first gen products may take awhile to catch on after initial sales but this is Apple and it has a very large following but the Watch is trying to sell to people who don't wear watches ever and probably never will unless it becomes the IT thing. Most of the analysts who follow Apple have lowered their yearly sales on average with the latest lowering from 12mm to 11.5mm this year and 24mm to 21mm for next year. Can you imagine the profits Apple makes on 21mm watches sold at an average profit of $200 per watch? That's over $4 billion in profits and many are saying that apple makes 75% profit on the Sport and higher on the other models. That pushes the profits to $6 billion per year based on the analysts guesses.

It's all just rough estimates and guesses, just like Slice.
 
swordfish5736 said:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15...lly-shows-apple-is-crushing-smartwatch-sector
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Well Apple Insider makes it sound like it's been a huge success. I guess we'll see if it has record sales or not when Apple finally tells us. You'd think if things were going as well as they are "guesstimating" Apple would want to get that information out to shareholders as soon as possible.

Personally I think this is a niche market and won't be the "next iPhone" that so so many predicted. We'll see when Apple finally says something about it.
 
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BlueMoon63 said:
I was at the Mall of America Apple Store and the staff said they get about 100-200 calls to the store each day and about 70% are people asking if they have the Apple Watch in stock and which models and sizes. Don't know if that translates to sales and I don't really care.

You are right about the year over year growth and iPhone will constantly be upgraded. I think the iPhone represents 70% of apples sales of all products. The Apple Watch might be 2% but make them about 500mm to 1billion in profits each year. Based on $200 profit per watch sold and selling about 3mm to 5mm watches.
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I'm actually amazed that Apple Store employees would give out any information at all on calls or popularity. Out this way it is a big no no for them to divulge any information concerning things like that.
 
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http://appleinsider.com/articles/15...lly-shows-apple-is-crushing-smartwatch-sector
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Considering the extremely poor Pebble and Android Gear sales - especially with the wide user install base in the case of the Pebble and the dominance of Android - it's not really that much of a feat to have "crushed the smartwatch sector". Those sales indicate - for now - that smartwatches are NOT "the next big thing".

And personally I doubt that there will be a break-through like there was with the iPhone/iPad, back then there was barely any competition (except for total flops like the LG Prada or in case of the first "Retina Display" iPhone the Toshiba Portege G900), now there have been a few devices like the Moto 360, the Pebble etc., and they really didn't seem to gain widespread traction at all.
 
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BlueMoon63 said:
This past weekend, I worked on my yard for three hours with my blue tooth headphones and the apple watch listening to a book and my iPhone was in the house. I responded to about 10 messages and work emails, scheduled two meetings for this week, made a list for items I needed from the store and never stopped working or needed my phone. I used the workout app and had almost 2000 calories and 190 minute workout that was logged. The watch was at 95% when I started and was at 69% when completed and at 40% at 10pm. I am very impressed.

I do believe the watch is overpriced but I can afford it so it is very worth it to me and my 6 other watches have not been worn once and they all cost about the same as my Apple Watch and they only tell the time. I really like the Watch and if Apple lowers the price OR adds some more features, it will sell even more.

This isn't going away... Apple, Samsung and others will keep making smartwatches.
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God man. That's incredible. (And you must be on 2.0, I can't send emails on my Watch yet, but I don't really want to anyway.)
 
dec. said:
Considering the extremely poor Pebble and Android Gear sales - especially with the wide user install base in the case of the Pebble and the dominance of Android - it's not really that much of a feat to have "crushed the smartwatch sector". Those sales indicate - for now - that smartwatches are NOT "the next big thing".

And personally I doubt that there will be a break-through like there was with the iPhone/iPad, back then there was barely any competition (except for total flops like the LG Prada or in case of the first "Retina Display" iPhone the Toshiba Portege G900), now there have been a few devices like the Moto 360, the Pebble etc., and they really didn't seem to gain widespread traction at all.
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Haven't they sold more apple watch in the same amount of time than the first iPod or the iPhone?
I'm really not sure where people are getting the impression that apple is not selling enough Apple watches...
 
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