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Apple Watch Demand Slides Significantly in June as Launch Momentum Wanes

I bought two apple watches and I am going to be honest, I never use them! My wife also does not use hers. So I feel bad, but probably will sell them. We just realized that they really do nothing that we need.
Still love Apple though.. but yeah.. kind of messed up here. And that goes for all companies, there really is no use for a watch.. in my or our opinion.
 
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Maybe I'm weird, but I like my Apple TV. No, I love my Apple TV. It all comes down to can it do the things I need it to do easily. In my case, it streams my daugther's cartoons and my movies quickly and easily.

As for the watch, I won't have mine until I visit home in a couple of weeks, but I expect it to:

Tell time
Notify me of texts
Notify me of calls
Basic fitness data (I'm not a fitness nut anyway, but I like to know how far I'm walking every day)
Look nice

That's it. I had a Pebble, and I dug it for what it could do, mostly text and call notifications plus telling time, but it was a hideous watch. The Apple Watch is a much nicer looking watch. I like not having to take my phone out of my pocket to tell time. I like not having to miss calls because I didn't feel the phone vibrate in my pocket. I like being able to decline calls if I'm teaching a class and can't answer or take the phone out of my pocket.

As for having my phone in my pocket for the Watch to work? I don't really care. If I were a runner, maybe I wouldn't want my phone with me, but I'm not.

From what I can tell, a boatload of watches sold in the first month. Drop off is supposed to happen. It won't change whether or not I like my watch. I don't know what the sales numbers are like for the Galaxy Gear watches, but I'd imagine Apple destroyed them in a matter of weeks. Sales will go up again with the release of OS 2 and with the holiday season I'd imagine.
 
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Technodynamic said:
I wear it daily and do not regret my purchase. I did my research so I knew exactly what I was getting, I think a lot of people here thought it would do other magical things and are disappointing.

Reading the posts, I guess I'm in the minority... and really like the watch.
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I'm with you, still love mine, my wife says the same - it's been super handy, assisted with workouts, I even wear mine around the homestead. Not to mention, I totally dig on it as just a watch :)

W/OS 2.0 should really ramp up the usability.

hokiemas said:
As for the watch, I won't have mine until I visit home in a couple of weeks, but I expect it to:

Tell time
Notify me of texts
Notify me of calls
Basic fitness data (I'm not a fitness nut anyway, but I like to know how far I'm walking every day)
Look nice
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You got it, and for me (us), that's plenty :)
 
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I love my 42mm SS!

Hadn't worn a watch in years, but I find the Apple Watch to be comfortable and stylish (for my modest tastes). Mostly though, I find it to be very useful.

Apple Pay is even more of a dream on the Apple Watch than it is on the iPhone! Passbook on the Apple Watch is very convenient as well. And the health and fitness tracking is great for my active lifestyle (cycling, working out, etc.).

Third-party apps and glances are coming into their own, and will only get better when WatchOS 2.0 drops. Based on my usage and experience, I think the new features they showed at WWDC will be very intuitive improvements to an already well thought out product. It's already reduced how much time I used to spend referencing my iPhone (a good thing), and I expect it to do it even more as it becomes more of a stand-alone device.

Others' mileage will vary, of course, and people's complaints are certainly valid for them, but I don't have buyer's remorse at all. I'm looking forward to Apple supporting the Apple Watch for years to come.
 
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D.T. said:
I'm with you, still love mine, my wife says the same - it's been super handy, assisted with workouts, I even wear mine around the homestead. Not to mention, I totally dig on it as just a watch :)

W/OS 2.0 should really ramp up the usability.
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watchOS 2 is what sold me on jumping on now as my partner and I start a 5k program.
 
Rogifan said:
Wait....this product is supposedly a failure yet you were able to sell it for more than you paid for it?
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Never said it was a failure...I just didn't see the value in it. Too many shortcomings for my taste. Someone else wanted it without waiting months...so I obliged. The small profit was a bonus.
 
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KindredMAC said:
Exactly...
I really question whether this will go the way of the Apple TV where it sits along the wall at the Apple Store and every once in a while someone goes over and buys one.

It is not a revolutionary product. It's an expansion device to the iPhone, much like a BT earpiece.

Mark my words, the Apple Watch will evolve into some other type of wearable, like a touch sensitive projector on the back of your hand or forearm, like this:
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Nice, but a scratch on that display will take a while to repair. :D
 
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Warbrain said:
Oh, you mean starting over new and not restoring from backup? I would expect this. What you're doing by manually pulling data is an extreme edge case.
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Phone stop syncing with iTunes. I can't use iCloud unless I pay to increase the storage. I still have the backup on my Mac but I can't export the components I want individually. It is all or nothing. I suppose I can restore from my backup and see if it fixes the syncing issue.
 
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i5pro said:
Never said it was a failure...I just didn't see the value in it. Too many shortcomings for my taste. Someone else wanted it without waiting months...so I obliged. The small profit was a bonus.
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I'm not talking specifically about you. It's just that's the general meme in threads like this so I find it amusing that such a failure could be sold for more than the original purchase price. :)
 
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Haters out in force again I see.

I like my watch, using it mostly for when I go mountain biking. To not have to wear a chest strap is worth the money alone.

Plenty of scope for improvement i will admit, but right now it is serving its purpose as a ridiculously expensive heart rate monitor.
 
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Rogifan said:
Right because you have sales data to know that sales are in the toilet.

I think MR needs to put up poll asking how many MR members have their email tracked by Slice Analytics. My guess is no one does.

But this isn't surprising. MR ran plenty of stores about the iPhone 5C allegedly being s failure too even though there wasn't a shred of solid evidence to support it.
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(Please read this as a respectful disagreement on your idea of a poll, not as a snarky slam.)
That would be funny...

A non-statistical poll on a service that is a opt-in subset (again, not statistically valid), because it has peoples' prejudices having them want to opt in, to get a reading on how valid the data from the opt-in subset is.

The downward spiral on this story continues.
 
I feel these numbers are more or less not truly representative of how the watch is doing nor how it will be doing a year or two from now. We are fickle and impatient creatures and feel some of the negativity on here is based on agenda's not really how good or bad the Apple Watch is. A lot of childish banter...

That being said, I am wanting to get an Apple Watch but honestly the price has held me back. I think Apple came out with big expectations and have limited the adoption due to the high(er) price for the Sports model. I feel people would be more likely to purchase if the entry was around 249 to 299 for Sport edition.

I feel the features of the watch are fantastic and the iPhone tethering is not really big deal for most stuff specially in wifi environments as you do not need your phone on you when on the same network. It still tracks workouts, and more with out your phone of or networks. Battery life looks to be very good with over 40% for most by end of day, which is stellar for this product. With the new OS and future models (probably not this year but in 2016) we should gradually see adoption increase. ALSO, do not be surprised to see a price cut in the next 4 to 6 months ... CHEERS. :)
 
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3 millions for a useless and ugly-looking smartwatch?

I consider that a success, but will this go the iPhone route or the iPad route?
 
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By the way this is not only happening to the Apple watch, this is the same predicament that will happen to beats. Beats is subpar product compared to Apple. Plus that bald guy and black guy running them ( sorry don't know their names) but it is just not suited for Apple. That is like asking "James Bond" to star in a movie with John Goodman in his "Roseanne" days. It just does not work out for too long. Maybe as a joke..
I still can't believe Apple paid that much to those guys.
I hope Apple can snap out of this lethargy. And get back to the days of really good products and remaining in a different world, where it is just them, alone.. making it HAPPEN! They can do it!
 
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To me, the primary disadvantage is battery life dependency. I'm used to watches with 5-year lithium batteries.
The second disadvantage may be durability. If it's not a G-Shock, it may not last long on my wrist.

I would rather get a new iPhone or iPad instead. Maybe in the future, if I have some money to waste, I may get an Apple Watch.
 
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Generally brick and mortar sales are about 12 times larger than online sales. If this is anywhere near true for Apple, then the drop in online sales of the Apple Watch in June could easily be explained by the availability of in-store sales. In fact, Apple Watch sales could easily be up because it is finally available in stores, especially for a product with so many options that people prefer to try it on before buying. I love my Apple Watch and though I admit that it might not be for everyone, I still try to convince everyone to get one.
 
Rogifan said:
You mean like all the people who take data like this seriously? :D
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I'm not sure anyone is taking it seriously, least of all me. My theory on smart watches not being 'all that' come from my love of mechanical watches. That, and I don't think we are there yet with the tech. Plus, having people talking into their watches would be more annoying than people walking around in public on speaker phone. Living in a huge market here in Los Angeles, I've only seen the Apple Watch on an Apple employee in the store. I've yet to see one in the wild.
 
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Amazing Iceman said:
To me, the primary disadvantage is battery life dependency. I'm used to watches with 5-year lithium batteries.
The second disadvantage may be durability. If it's not a G-Shock, it may not last long on my wrist.
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I was used to phones that never went dead, even when the power went out.

Then, 1983 happened, and cell phones started being used. It was slow, but the technology eventually picked up.
 
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