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Apple Watch Outsold All Competing Smartwatches Combined Last Year
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To be fair...With respect to HomePod, a great sounding always-on speaker that adapts to its acoustic environment, Siri works exceptionally well for it's intended use. Since HomePod doesn't have a keyboard and screen, Siri lets users play and control music by using ones voice. That works exceptionally well, and is hardly fatal.
If you need to order a box of detergent from Amazon, solve a crossword puzzle, be advised of the travel time to Pluto, calculate the amount of wood a woodchuck could chuck in a day (assuming a woodchuck could chuck wood), etc, then you should consider a so-called digital assistant from Amazon or google.
That was my story as well. Well, not the part of giving a watch to your wife or your wife telling me that stuff, but the part about thinking it was useless and now needing the watch everyday.
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ahhh now your posts have become all that much clearer
I thought he was being sarcastic with that post of his, but I do agree that it could be interpreted either way.
Right out of the gate, AppleWatch was called a failure because it didn't meet some analyst's sales expectations. It appears as though every Apple product is judged only on the basis of unit sales. Is that how most products are judged? I know they say the Echo is a huge success because Amazon is selling a lot of Echo Dots, so I guess that's the main metric to judge a product's success. Echo Dots don't sound very good but I suppose having Alexa is good for a lot of consumers.
I know at one point it was said that the Fitbit wearables were far more successful than AppleWatch but that didn't last for very long. It's just that relatively inexpensive products can be considered disposables and therefore may generate a lot of impulse sales but have very little staying power. I'd heard there were a lot of problems with Fitbit devices and that some would only last as long as a few months of rigorous use. That's hardly what I would call a successful product. It's just funny how analysts kept saying how Fitbit was destroying Apple and other ridiculous things based on how many Fitbits were being sold at the time. There was such a huge difference in price between the two devices, so it wasn't worthwhile just to compare how many of each were being sold.
I'm glad the AppleWatch is healthy and selling in reasonable numbers. It's amazing Apple is selling as many as they are considering you can't use an AppleWatch with anything but an iPhone.
I know at one point it was said that the Fitbit wearables were far more successful than AppleWatch but that didn't last for very long. It's just that relatively inexpensive products can be considered disposables and therefore may generate a lot of impulse sales but have very little staying power. I'd heard there were a lot of problems with Fitbit devices and that some would only last as long as a few months of rigorous use. That's hardly what I would call a successful product. It's just funny how analysts kept saying how Fitbit was destroying Apple and other ridiculous things based on how many Fitbits were being sold at the time. There was such a huge difference in price between the two devices, so it wasn't worthwhile just to compare how many of each were being sold.
I'm glad the AppleWatch is healthy and selling in reasonable numbers. It's amazing Apple is selling as many as they are considering you can't use an AppleWatch with anything but an iPhone.
Have a S0 from day 1 I’ve found it a handy link to my phone and bank cards.
But I can live without it. I don’t exercise often enough for the activity features or really get notifications (turned off). Funny enough I use it mostly for the time and the occasional text while at work.
Hence I haven’t upgraded.
But I can live without it. I don’t exercise often enough for the activity features or really get notifications (turned off). Funny enough I use it mostly for the time and the occasional text while at work.
Hence I haven’t upgraded.
I figured when I bought my first AW, a S3, that I would probably only get two years out of it, by necessity or choice, and that three years was probably the brick-wall back end. So I think you guys with the S0 are doing well. It'd be nice if hardware had a longer run, but the newer features and functions are really worth the cost (IMO). That's why I figure that after two years, even if it's still performing nicely, I think there's a good chance that the hardware functions - not just speed - will convince me to update. We shall see.
Except that it doesn't. It has one fatal flaw: it only allows one account. Why Apple can't figure out that more than one person typically lives in a house I just don't know. I've often mused that it must reflect the living situation of most people that work for Apple....
Google Home does an amazing job with voice recognition. It serves up personalized Spotify, Calendar, traffic information and even compartmentalizes secure smart home devices (locks, garage doors, etc.) so they're only controlled by individuals who have authorization.
If Apple ever figures out that more than one person should be able to interact with a HomePod... then I'll buy one (Everything else I own is Apple and my whole house is Homekit compatible). Until then: I'm more than happy with Google Home.
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I thought the same thing when I bought my Series 0 (I upgrade my phone every year - so I figured I would do about the same for my Watch)... but that's just not how it played out. I think that being able to switch bands daily keeps it fresh (I have 6 or 7 bands) and for the things I do with it, it's done just fine.
Like I said though: it is definitely time to upgrade. That speed boost is going to be great!
If you use HomePod to listen to music, its intended use, then it's not a flaw. My wife controls HomePod via Siri as easily as I do.
Since I purchased HomePod to listen to music, I'm fine with that. I suspect many others are as well. I use Indigo for home security and automation, a superb and highly configurable system.
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Switching to an Android phone I spent a lot of time evaluating a replacement for my Apple Watch 2 Nike. There were not a lot of options.
For me gear is out because it doesn't run Android Wear and Samsung actively puts up obstacles trying to prevent me from running the SW I want on my phone, Samsung is the Apple of Android.
This is what I settled on when I decided to get a smart watch
https://www.nixon.com/us/en/mens-featured-smart
I can see that. Nice choice
I was perhaps lucky as all the Samsung and other functions I wanted for my Gear run on my Razer.
I upgraded from a series 0 and couldn’t be happier with it. The faster processor just makes everything better; especially Siri. It’s the best digital assistant money can buy; and that’s coming from someone who owns a HomePod and Echo Dot.
The paltry water resistance makes the Frontier useless for me (can't even go swimming with it). The Sport has 50M water resistance but no LTE. Why can't I get a Gear with 50M water resistance and LTE? Plus there's still fewer Apps for Tizen. No Strava, for example.
You could have changed that last paragraph to "if you like playing trivial pursuit with an inanimate object..."
Seriously, do people actually search for information from a voice assistant? I can't stand Siri, Google or Alexa for that. When I'm searching for something I need much more information than a short sound bite. I think Amazon realizes this which is why they brought out the Echo Show - Amazon knows a lot of queries can't be answered by voice and people need something to look at (more detailed information). So they added a screen to let you see that detailed information.
Yeah...
Same here. I have no need for what's now called a digital assistant. I suppose they're fine for showing off to guests who are easily impressed by having pi read out to a hundred digits.
As an interface to playing music on HomePod, however, Siri is perfect.
They're now able to include traditional non-smart Swiss watches? Hmm? A $330 AW sells more than a $10,000 Swiss watch hand assembled with intricate parts. Shocker.
So in fair turn, Casio & Timex absolutely crushed Apple Watch in total sales. lol
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In fair turn, if MacBook is the better laptop, it would have sold more than almost any solitarty laptop maker of Windows (example: Asus).
Am I reading it wrong? In first table Fitbit has 5.4 mil for Q417, in the second table it has 0.5 mil?
Reliable rumors say that the S4 AW will introduce a notch to further drive up sales.
I really wanted to like the AW. It just wasn’t for me. Things that ruined it for me: poor battery life, a different charger, raise to wake very inconsistent, built in apps can’t be deleted, vastly inferior running metrics to a dedicated running watch.
It’s a good product, but for me, it has too many drawbacks and frustrations. It was honestly a minor relief to take it off each night.
It’s a good product, but for me, it has too many drawbacks and frustrations. It was honestly a minor relief to take it off each night.
Huh that's new. Had to look up the rating. While the S3 has a higher rating IP68 versus IP67 for the Apple Watch it doesn't carry that depth. Though I've done lobster season free diving down 20-25 feet no problem with my S3. The more you know lol