What does it tell you?
It tells me that Apple created massive pent up demand -- a couple of million people bought the watch sight-unseen -- and since then sales have been rolling along.
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Apple Watch Orders Estimated to Average 30,000 Per Day in U.S. After Initial Surge
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What does it tell you?
It tells me that Apple created massive pent up demand -- a couple of million people bought the watch sight-unseen -- and since then sales have been rolling along.
Go to the iTunes store and type in Slice.
It's actually a pretty damn useful app. You might want to look into it before being so dismissive...
I could have included the rest of the quote. But I left it out to stop people replying with the argument:
"The Watch is only selling because Apple has made such good products in the past that customers are now blindly buying a bad product."
If you are making that argument, you are clutching at straws and are probably biased against the Watch.
It's like this argument I've seen floating around the net: "People only buy Apple products because of the Apple logo."
People associate the Apple logo with good products, because Apple makes good products. When Apple stops making excellent products, people will quickly stop associating the logo with excellence.
If the Watch is so bad it's destined to fail within 3 months, even Apple Faithful will return it. Or stop using it. There will be some way of tracking its failure. Again, people are faithful to Apple because of their fairly consistent ability to make good products.
If Slice is anything like Deliveries, I bet it's awesome. Deliveries is my favorite app of all time, hands down. However, I don't like that Slice snoops your email. Deliveries just takes the tracking number and aggregates data.
Sales of the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii - look at those spikes and WAY downturned sales... what does that tell you?
November/December 2009, Wii sold 9+ million, but in February/March 2010, Wii sold 1 million. You need to watch the LONGER projections.
It would make sense if the person you quoted alluded to how many men vs how many women. You just brought in a totally irrelevant point.
Actually the watches cost quite a bit to make. The margins for the Swatch Group and the Rolex Company that I just looked up are not particularly outrageous. Certainly they are less than Apple's.
But you are absolutely right that they are supported by major marketing. And that marketing, which is widespread and expensive, but spread over a fairly limited number of units, is part of why the companies have relatively modest margins.
At least one of the ones made today is destined for me. My credit card was billed yesterday and my order has finally made it to the "Preparing for Shipment" shipment status. Can't wait. My $AAPL is also very excited about how things look. 
Who says it's going to stay at 30k per day? It's more than optimistic to assume this is going to be constant for the next 7 months.
Let it go. It's a done deal. There's no point in taking it any further. Seems like you're just looking for an unnecessary fight.
Easy to fix. Only use an email address that gets shipment emails, nothing else.
By the way how does Deliveries get your tracking number?
Yeah. The
watch sales charts look similar to the furby, tickle me elmo, beanie baby etc... after 1 month...You should of thought of that originally.\\Let it go. It's a done deal. There's no point in taking it any further. Seems like you're just looking for an unnecessary fight.
Oh, i forgot
Remember that only people who own an iphone 5 or 6 can even use the watch. So we are talking about quite a small percentage of overall iOS users. And this is in the summer so it's not gift buying season for quite a few months. I think selling a few million of what is in effect a pretty expensive accessory is quite a big deal really.
So even though Apple Watch sales taper off, the success of Apple depends on the failure of others?
Interesting logic. Glad you aren't managing my portfolio.
You also realize these projections are only for the US? And that they're going to release the Apple Watch in many more countries before the end of the year? So I agree with your post that it won't remain constant but the average could well be 30k per day for the rest of the year, I don't think anyone really knows yet, but it will be interesting to
watch.
Also I haven't seen any competitor, running as many ads, has had tons of news coverage as the Apple has had, Apple has given away very expensive watches to Celebreties so they could post their pictures in Instagram flaunting their watches.
Is not just about how much others have not sold, is how much has Apple wasted just to create the illusion that is a most have piece of technology.
I will like to go to the store an experiment with a watch, to give a more true assessment, but I have yet to see an Apple watch in the wild. I go the gym a lot, I see all these guys with iPhones, but not one single watch that I caught. Maybe the shipping is holding up demand or whatnot. But I get the sense, this things will have to drop in price, at least by 100 dollars to start moving units to regular people. 400 dollars just to see updates seems quite hefty price tag, is saving 2 seconds a couple times a day worth 400 dollars, learning a whole new operating system.
Having to recharge every night. Wasting time setting up the machine, learning its idiosyncrasies. You know another thing that has annoyed me about the Apple watch. This feels like the first product, from Apple that is based on Social Class.
I think they could of done two watches, sport and casual wear, but Apple selling the Watch Edition.
I remember one thing also that I read about the iPhone, they said from the riches person to most average guy, they all had the same phone, and that celebrities were not given special treatment, they had to get them like the casual buyer. Seeing how this has been promoted, Apple definitely didn't go that route.
It tells me you're not really good at comparative analysis.
Had you compared the watch's launch to the Wii's launch, that would have been a less problematic comparison. It wouldn't have fit your narrative, but at least it would have been an honest comparison. The Wii's launch was relatively benign. It gained critical mass later. The launch of the watch, thus far, is totally opposite. But nooooo, you decided it would be better to take the holiday sales of the Wii's best month (2 years after the actual launch
) and compare it to after holiday sales. Hyperbolic edge case examples rarely achieve the effect you want. From that suspect analysis, you extrapolate a corollary that has no logical basis.Here's the irony. Your final statement is right. The watch's success has to be judge over the long haul. Deeming it a success or failure now is shortsighted, especially when discussing the project in it's entirety. Compared to other smartwatch launches (why couldn't you try this comparison) the Apple watch launch is a definite success.
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