This cannot be. Someone has been adding numbers wrong. Every human on Earth only lives for getting an Apple Watch and stare at it in awe with such beautiful life-changing technology.
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Apple Watch Loses Market Share as Android Wear Grows in Popularity
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As with smart phones and tablets, Apple will wile away their market leading position, allowing the competition to catch up by adding more user requested features, and gradually eating away at their marketshare. What happened to the proactive Apple of only a few years ago?
Declining sales due to lack of innovation? Nope. Last year was an anomaly, the 6 and 6 Plus were so successful that this year was always going to see a decline in unit sales. If you compare Q2 2016 to a "normal year" of iPhone sales, i.e. iPhone 5S sales the year before, then you'll find that sales were actually up. I don't doubt that the same thing will happen again in the future, Apple will release an iPhone just as successful that the following year sales will be down by comparison. That's just the nature of the beast.
People also need to remember that true innovation takes time and that Apple can't release a breakthrough new product every 6 months. This train of thought was rife in the period leading up to the release of the Apple Watch. Apple is doomed they need to innovate, just because a new exciting product wasn't released every 5 minutes, seems people have slipped back into their impatient and short-sighted habits.
As for Mac updates being incremental, that's nothing new. You only really get big updates, i.e. design changes every several years, so stop expecting something like that every 6 months.
"I'm still using my original 1984 Macintosh because every Mac update since then has been boring, incremental and not compelling enough for me to upgrade!"
This is pretty much it. The same thing that keeps Windows on top.
Options. Folks like options.
Not that Apple needs to do anything. Apple really is just another option. Nothing wrong with losing market share to good competition.
Apples fanatical fan base will wane eventually. Despite the res screens the iPhone still outsells any other device. But, how long can they keep doing this as others get better.
You're right, they need to follow the lead of the manufacturer with 1/4 their market share who entered said market 1-2 years before Apple. /s Round watches make for a terrible smartwatch UX. Apple Watch has no problems in the looks dept. whatsoever. Just wish they'd drop the friends button and further simplify the product. Still by far the best smartwatch currently available.
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You asked we delivered. New this year. Apple loom bands!
Make it go away and make new powerful, affordable Macs and peripherals.
Problem solved.
Problem solved.
Honestly.. three people at work here had Apple watches.. all of them sold them a month or two later.
I refuse to wear a watch, but I carry my iPhone everywhere with me.
I don't know what the solution is, but smartwatches in general seem to have been a 'look at me' trend and slowly waning. There's no real killer reason to buy one, and for the price and battery life, very little incentive other than for bling.
I refuse to wear a watch, but I carry my iPhone everywhere with me.
I don't know what the solution is, but smartwatches in general seem to have been a 'look at me' trend and slowly waning. There's no real killer reason to buy one, and for the price and battery life, very little incentive other than for bling.
I wouldn't say any smartwatch is doing it for me at the moment. They just lack that killer feature that thrusts a product from the niche market into the mainstream.
No surprise. Other watches have 90% of the functionality for 50% of the cost.
Sorry but sales equals market share...then leads to profits. The more sales.....the more market share. They go hand in hand. You need to have sales to gain market share and those two add to profits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share
Big venue for WWDC. Let's see what Macs they introduce. If you don't think they've thinner MBPs, new Mac Pros and new 5K displays in the works you're out of your mind. Wouldn't surprise me if the EOL Mac mini however.
Unless they double the battery life, which is unlikely, the battery life is already good enough. I've never had one run down from 5:30 AM when i wake up to 10 PM when i charge it on the nightstand. If you want to add GPS we'd better be happy with any battery life improvements being absorbed by that functionality (not to mention if they put cellular in it or allow a screen-always-on mode).
iPhone sales are declining, now Apple Watch sales are declining so soon, and Mac Sales are steady if not slightly declining. I must say, Tim Cook is doing a fine job running Apple.
Of course the lovers will be blinded by more profits... Gee I wonder why there's more profits. Pretty easy to take someone else's ideas, keep changing the colors and sizes of the devices, and then find ways to nickel and dime your customers. If Tim wasn't doing the nickel and dime thing, the profits would be dropping like a rock. I guess people haven't figure out why they shouldn't pay for $100 for a glorified stylus and an extra $100 for a keyboard to go with their iPad.
Of course the lovers will be blinded by more profits... Gee I wonder why there's more profits. Pretty easy to take someone else's ideas, keep changing the colors and sizes of the devices, and then find ways to nickel and dime your customers. If Tim wasn't doing the nickel and dime thing, the profits would be dropping like a rock. I guess people haven't figure out why they shouldn't pay for $100 for a glorified stylus and an extra $100 for a keyboard to go with their iPad.
Sounds similar to a Planet Fitness business model, doesn't it?
....if there were only more band options I would probably get one. Not.
While I avoided the keyboard like the plague, I didn't have much choice on the stylus. The Pencil provides the best drawing experience I've ever had on a consumer device. It totally destroys the Samsung S-Pens I've had, and is better than the old Wacom tablet I had and the n-trig tech in the SP4. Yeah it is overpriced, but there is no alternative. It is a lot less painful paying the Apple Tax when you get something nice in return.
I think a large part of this was people have been waiting for Apple to release a watch. I mean it was rumored years before Samsung came out with one of the first Android smartwatches that Apple was in R&D to create a watch, and then years later Apple finally releases one, and it was dissapointing. In the meantime after several generations of watches from Samsung, they keep getting better. By the time Apple releases Apple Watch 2.0 Samsung will release another Gear watch which will be even better then the Gear S2.
Hopefully all this recent doom and gloom will finally light a match under Apple's ass again because I think they have stagnated for the last few years and whatever push Steve Jobs' left them with for future products for innovation has, I greatly believe, finally reached its peak. Apple has to strike out on their own now and develop a new generation of innovation and products that restore their brand and make people want them again. Apple Watch 1.0 failed, Apple Watch 2.0 should be completely re-envisioned and avoid what Steve Jobs might have wanted out of the product 6+ years ago.
Apple can't keep latching on to the past and simply tweak products that Steve Jobs originally blessed them with before he passed; it's time for Apple 4.0 to step up to the plate. If Apple doesn't come out with new exciting designs and innovation for ALL Their products, from Macs to iPads, iPhones to Watches, and even new categories that are not defined yet, I think we are seeing the next Blackberry.
Hopefully all this recent doom and gloom will finally light a match under Apple's ass again because I think they have stagnated for the last few years and whatever push Steve Jobs' left them with for future products for innovation has, I greatly believe, finally reached its peak. Apple has to strike out on their own now and develop a new generation of innovation and products that restore their brand and make people want them again. Apple Watch 1.0 failed, Apple Watch 2.0 should be completely re-envisioned and avoid what Steve Jobs might have wanted out of the product 6+ years ago.
Apple can't keep latching on to the past and simply tweak products that Steve Jobs originally blessed them with before he passed; it's time for Apple 4.0 to step up to the plate. If Apple doesn't come out with new exciting designs and innovation for ALL Their products, from Macs to iPads, iPhones to Watches, and even new categories that are not defined yet, I think we are seeing the next Blackberry.
