LOl. Yes, I'm a Samsung shill working pro bono. Get real.
Honesty, as they say, is always the best policy.... Hope you rake it in....
LOl. Yes, I'm a Samsung shill working pro bono. Get real.
The iPhone is a tried and true product. The watch is a new product and previous attempts at a watch have failed spectacularly.
You mean the ones like from samsung or peblle that are selling hundreds of thousands to millions? How is that fail?
You mean the ones like from samsung or peblle that are selling hundreds of thousands to millions? How is that fail?
They sold a total of 720-800k last year.
Pebble (you know the guys from kickstarter) sold over a million beginning this year and the new campaign has close to a 80 000 backers . How is that "failed spectacularly"?
Samsung sold 1.2 million watches in 2014 again how is that a fail?
Both should sell several times as much this year, fail?
Why do you find the need to increase the succes of apple by belittling and making things up about other brands? I never understood that.
Link?
Pebbel more then 1 milion sales :
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102389470
Silicon Valley startup Pebble it has sold more than 1 million smartwatches,
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises
78,471 backers pledged $20,338,986 to help bring this project to life.
According to the data, Samsungs Gear series has propelled the company to the front of the smartwatch market, with approximately 1.2 million smartwatches sold in 2014. Samsung products already account for 17.7 percent of the market.
http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-no-1-smartwatch-sales-593790/
Again how is this a fail?
It's not a matter of liking it or not, I have no idea if it's any good, and nor does anybody on this forum. Just because it's Apple doesn't make it a good product, just an expensive one.
Ok its up for debate.
Even if it "only" is 7-800k, how is that a failure?
Pebble & samsung first products, new market , ten to hundres of million of revenue. Still not a fail.
That's a great point. Apple has never been in the market simply to control all of it. They just want to have enough market share to be profitable.I think failure is overstating it slightly, but it's not a success. When you consider that you have some of the biggest electronics makers all trying to make products in this category and this is the best they could do in terms of sales, you have to question whether people actually even want smartwatches.
That's why a lot of people have been looking to Apple as a sort of savior. If they can't make it a mainstream success, then maybe it's just something that most people don't need. And ironically I think a lot of the smartwatch makers are also hoping for the Apple Watch to be a success because it will boost interest in the category. Pebble Time apparently got a huge boost in preorders when the Apple Watch was announced. Maybe that was because people had been waiting to see what Apple was going to do before ordering something else, but I also think it's boosted interest in smartwatches overall.
I think failure is overstating it slightly, but it's not a success. When you consider that you have some of the biggest electronics makers all trying to make products in this category and this is the best they could do in terms of sales, you have to question whether people actually even want smartwatches.
No pebble got a boost because they a anounced new version with color. Nothing to do with apple watch.That's why a lot of people have been looking to Apple as a sort of savior. If they can't make it a mainstream success, then maybe it's just something that most people don't need. And ironically I think a lot of the smartwatch makers are also hoping for the Apple Watch to be a success because it will boost interest in the category. Pebble Time apparently got a huge boost in preorders when the Apple Watch was announced. Maybe that was because people had been waiting to see what Apple was going to do before ordering something else, but I also think it's boosted interest in smartwatches overall.
It's a huge success for a kickstarter campaign. But as a category, I don't think smartwatches have been anything more than a niche product up until now.Biggest? Pebble? How is a million sold units from a kickstarter campaign not a succes?
No pebble got a boost because they a anounced new version with color. Nothing to do with apple watch.
When the biggest company in the world enters your market, thats the kind of validation you can only dream of, Migicovsky expressed in a statement to TechCrunch. Ultimately the more awareness for smartwatches, and the more choice for consumers, the better for everyone. 2015 is going to be an extraordinarily exciting year.
There's no paid Samsung shills here on macrumors. The only thing close are Apple "shills" because this is an Apple site, so there is an Apple slant. I don't know if you understand business, but companies pay reviewers to praise their own products. I have never seen a company pay people to **** on other companies' products because at the end of the day, people would still not know about their products. The so called shills here are just people that aren't brainwashed.
Actually Samsung did pay people to **** on HTC products and they had to apologize publicly. Maybe you just "forgot" that. Of course Samsung said they'll never do it again, so it's all good now.
That wasn't the discussion. The statement was that everyone had failed.It's a huge success for a kickstarter campaign. But as a category, I don't think smartwatches have been anything more than a niche product up until now.
He isnt, re-read what he said. Validation is quite different then "we got the apple leftovers"Well, the CEO of Pebble seems to disagree with you.
Do you intend to stay poor forever?