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Apple Watch Loses Market Share as Android Wear Grows in Popularity
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The iPhone is right in line with how it should be doing. The iPhone 6/6 Plus in 2014 caused an abnormally high spike in sales due to demand for bigger screens. It is an impossible thing to compare against. The numbers would have declined with or without Steve Jobs at the helm. The Apple Watch is a gen 1 product that is selling twice as well as the iPhone did in its first year. Give it a second.
Also, I don't know if you've read the reviews, but there are a lot of them raving about the 9.7" iPad Pro, and the Apple Pencil is probably the most impressive gen 1 product Apple has ever released.
Steve Jobs was very good at products, that's true. But they were mostly products other people came up with. Steve was a great marketer, had a great eye for design, and knew how to sell. But he also had a great team of people under him that came up with the products he was selling. He can never be replaced, but Apple can, and will, still function without him.
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Yeah--but your logical take on it is not click-baity enough. We have to generate that ad money.
I haven't 'upgraded' my original Kickstarter Pebble watch because none of these devices seem to do much more for me. Prior to this article I never even considered an Android watch, I didn't know much about them. But they seem to be doing pretty well so maybe I'll pick one of those up when my Pebble breaks.
OR, the handful of people that really wanted the Apple watch got in on one in the first quarter and now sales take a dive. It's a niche product, and if you didn't want one at Christmas, you probably still have no interest in getting one.
What exactly is needed for the Macs? I just purchased a new computer around $2,000 (built it myself actually with 6-core processor and 32GB of RAM). I do not notice ANY difference between that and my 2010 Mac Pro. I still render videos at the same speed, Photoshop seems to perform the same. I get better gaming performance but that is about it.
Certainly not me. I have to carry around a work phone all the time and I usually have my personal phone along. I don't miss wearing a watch one bit.
It feels like companies are trying to create a market where there really isn't one. Fitness trackers are one thing, but a watch just isn't a good device for consuming media. The controls and screen size don't allow for useful interaction. No amount of battery life, thinness, or roundness is going to change that. I've only ever seen one smartwatch in the wild, and it was a Samsung Gear. Everyone else in our IT department feels the same way...
Apple have a smaller possible market - since Apple Watch only works with iPhone. I'm sure a lot of people forget this one small item.
If you have a phone that is not an iPhone, you are not going to use Apple Watch!!
Android Wear will work more phones, including iPhone.
Additionally, more companies making Android Wear devices.. so, yea, Apple's marketshare will fall.
Its not really surprising.
If you have a phone that is not an iPhone, you are not going to use Apple Watch!!
Android Wear will work more phones, including iPhone.
Additionally, more companies making Android Wear devices.. so, yea, Apple's marketshare will fall.
Its not really surprising.
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It's amazing how few people know how these companies work and how unreliable these numbers really are.
I would love a watch but not this version. Hopefully watch 2 is a bit slimmer, faster and with GPS. I also would love it if stainless steel was not like $1000 canadian for a watch, I wouldn't spend that much but do prefer the look of it to the aluminum versions
That's not the point. Offer both, and more options. If a company gets into the watch business, they have to offer options people have come to expect from such a product, whatever else they bring to the table, or accept the sales they can muster with the products they selectively offer.
They may not have a massive hit with the watch, but they sure seem to with the bands. And who says Apple isn't diversifying?
Going by the estimated sales figures it's safe to say the vast majority of people are not into wearables yet.
Exactly. How much money are they going to throw at this before they realise people don't want it or need it.
In the mean time Elon Musk is doing the real innovation.
A lot of people don't like the current rectangular design and would welcome a round option.
The dream era of smart watches is when one can leave his phone behind and still stay in touch using the watch without having to think about it.
Apple often isn't the highest seller or wow maker with their Gen 1 products.
But they are sure to refine and improve it. My personal wait/wish list before I buy would be:
* greater device independence, GPS, Some more storage, etc
* longer battery even 2 days of constant use would be fantastic
* price, either lower price or more features to justify the price to myself & my wallet.
But they are sure to refine and improve it. My personal wait/wish list before I buy would be:
* greater device independence, GPS, Some more storage, etc
* longer battery even 2 days of constant use would be fantastic
* price, either lower price or more features to justify the price to myself & my wallet.
Make it useful.
Problem solved.
Can you be more precise in what you regard as useful?