Personally, I ordered three, and eventually cancelled two once I could actually try them on and see them in person.
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Apple Watch Received Estimated 1 Million Pre-Orders in U.S. on April 10
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Personally, I ordered three, and eventually cancelled two once I could actually try them on and see them in person.
I totally understand what you're saying. If I would buy the Apple Watch I would probably get the space gray black strap 38 mm so I could wear it on my right wrist so no one would notice and it wouldn't try to compete with my real watch on my left wrist. But are you going to wear your Rolex and Apple Watch at the same time or change it up per occasion? I would in 95% of the cases choose my watch (which is a real piece of jewellery) instead of the smartwatch.
But for all other people, who don't wear watches, going for the space gray is something I want to understand too
Pretty solid? Are you serious?
They sold 240m iphones last year. 1m out of 240m is 0.4%.
You think 0.4% is great? It's terrible. Plus the majority of those who preordered didn't had the chance to try the watch and will return it. By the end of the year they'll probably sell 3-5 million.
Anything under 10m/year is not solid.
And no, i'm not a hater, i actually like the watch and preordered it.
I would happily pay that price for a gold watch, even if it was 3 years old.
By the way, I don't wear watches, never.
How do you know it did not grow by that much? Apple did not built up such wealth so quickly based on a steady customer growth . The growth would have been driven by iPhone , and quess what launched after the iPad, the iPhone 4. So are you saying apple did not have one of its biggest growth spurts with the iPhone 4? We can look into the numbers of 3GS v iPhone 4 sales as an estimate ? I'll stand by my remark that Apple customer base could have easily gone up by 2.4 or More in 2010, as a result of the iPhone 4 being the best phone by a large margin.
Apple just outsold every Android watch ever released in just one day.
Like iPod to mp3s, iPhone to smartphones, and iPad to tablets, Apple is showing the rest of the industry how to properly do the smart watch.
Like iPod to mp3s, iPhone to smartphones, and iPad to tablets, Apple is showing the rest of the industry how to properly do the smart watch.
Nowhere. We're here.
We don't know yet. But the estimation numbers seem to indicate what we were saying: the continuity of this new product is highly doubtful. And we're still not taking into account what will happen in next months, when users realize they usually forget their watch in a drawer at home.
Apple or not, smartwatches are a very hard category to crack for any manufacturer. It's just not something that feels as "necessary" as a smartphone or a music player, especially at this price. People are not buying this to replace their traditional watches.
So if these numbers are real, that's a pretty impressive achievement for Apple, compared to its competitors.
I think smartwatches are going to stay in the "hobby" category for a long time just like the AppleTV is for Apple, probably until smartwatch batteries get a substantial increase in duration.
Pretty good sales! But it could be well more than that.
But. I wonder how many will be returned because they don't fit or not impressed with the battery life. You know what consumers are like!
But. I wonder how many will be returned because they don't fit or not impressed with the battery life. You know what consumers are like!
That's pretty bad math right there.
iPhone sales in the last year is actually 192.6m
1m Watch preorders in the US alone on Day 1.
Perhaps Add another 2-3 million for the other 7 countries... in one day.
iPhone 6 sold 4 million on Day 1 - 9m over the weekend.
Remember this is only 8 countries so far. The other 31 still to come...
I suspect they will be over 20m in a year easy. probably closer to 40... most of them sports of course.
Not to mention how many of them will end forgotten in a drawer. Of course, this won't affect first-month sales, which, anyway, doesn't seem to be as high as to compensate for what will happen in next months.But. I wonder how many will be returned because they don't fit or not impressed with the battery life. You know what consumers are like!
Am I the only one who remembers the iPad criticism?
'No better than a netbook (no multitasking, no Microsoft office, requires syncing to iTunes on a 'real' computer) yet more expensive'?
'Just a big iPod touch'?
'What can it actually do that we can't do already?'
'Too big to replace your phone and not powerful enough to replace your laptop'?
I am amazed that people don't remember these, as for me the iPad is the best example of a product which was attacked at first by reviewers then loved by the public.
Apple Watch Received Estimated 1 Million Pre-Orders in U.S. on April 10
No he didn't. He said he wished it launched in the US first, he didn't explain why. At least not in the post I quoted, I haven't seen his original post perhaps it was edited.
He already explained why in the same sentence.
No he didn't. He said he wished it launched in the US first, he didn't explain why. At least not in the post I quoted, I haven't seen his original post perhaps it was edited.
So you know how peoples minds work then.. what everyone in the entire world. Wow you must be incredibly successful... like the new Apple Watch.
And you are trying to spin Fantastic figures = bad future. [Slow hand clap]
You know the next one will be the one to get when the tech improves.
Future Sensors - sleep tracking, glucose monitoring, and hydration tracking + others
FaceTime Camera
A more complete API for developers
More watch independence from phone
And at some point AW4> Cellphone calling. Perhaps linked to the same cell
phone number... so you can just take the watch on a run for example.
Well it's pretty clear to me he's saying that due to availability and ship dates. Had it been US only, ship dates wouldn't have worsened as quickly.
I bought the first one and didn't use it 'that' much. The killer feature was really the iPad2's Front facing camera. FaceTime and Skype for all the Grandma's out there
The Watch 2/3 will be the same. I am sure they wanted it in the Watch... but guess there is not a lot of space in there.... and well it'll need a better battery!
What growth are we talking about again? You say it was driven by iPhone, so we are talking about iOS userbase? That could have grown 2.4 fold in one year in 2010 to 2011, I never said otherwise. But I don't think there were 2.4 fold more customers for iPad 2 in 2011 than they were in 2010. People just waited.