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Apple Watch Received Estimated 1 Million Pre-Orders in U.S. on April 10
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It'll be great to have the watch and a Sesame door lock when I come home from the grocery store with my hands full:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1425492550/sesame-your-key-reinvented
Not to mention when I come home from a work trip or vacation and my keys have found their way to the bottom of my purse.
I'm sure they will add a watch app for their product, it only makes sense.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1425492550/sesame-your-key-reinvented
Not to mention when I come home from a work trip or vacation and my keys have found their way to the bottom of my purse.
I'm sure they will add a watch app for their product, it only makes sense.
You mean the ones like from samsung or peblle that are selling hundreds of thousands to millions? How is that fail?
Get back to us next year on those Pebble sales... It was nice being the only decent watch that worked with an iPhone. Of course, as long as they keep it cheaper there will still be takers. The Samsung people have no choice but to buy the watches for their phones. So those sales don't mean much, either. The interesting statistic will be how many people throw away Android phones in order to get an AppleWatch. Android people can be as loyal as Apple people to the point of thinking they are committing a personal sin if they break down and get any Apple product but people on the fence could be swayed over to the bright side
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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?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/android-wear-sales-bad-compared-to-phones-ok-compared-to-other-watches/
(Date: 2/11)
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?
Samsung sells both Android Wear and their own Tizen-based watches.
That's why their own sales were greater for all of 2014 than the total of Android Wear sales (which didn't start until the second half, and in cases like the Moto 360, were also constrained by an even later entry and initial limited supply).
Ok its up for debate. Your assertion that I was trying to bring android down was false. I can produce many many more links saying similar to the ars technica link.
http://www.ibtimes.com/google-inc-smartwatch-sales-are-lower-expected-could-accelerate-android-wear-20-1813662
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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.
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.
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.
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.
And others seem to be doing fine. around 5-7 million sales, twice that next year as most will double sales. I think its a bit unrealistic to expect any company now to sell tens of millions of any product it releases for it to be a succes.
Depending on development cost an returns even low volumes can be quite succesfull.
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.
Well, the CEO of Pebble seems to disagree with you.
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
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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
They also got fined a few hundred thousand dollars.
However, it wasn't done by Samsung HQ.
It was caused by a local sales manager in Taiwan who hired a third party marketing firm, and that firm hired people to write fake posts about HTC quality.
That wasn't the discussion. The statement was that everyone had failed.
He isnt, re-read what he said. Validation is quite different then "we got the apple leftovers"
The way things are going.. probably.
I even work as a contractor for a large semiconductor plant who makes millions of dollars a day.. and I make $11 hr.
Having rent, car payment, cell phone bill and 2 kids to raise/feed... I lose money every day. I can't even save a penny.
In the end I believe this version of the watch will be looked at as a disappointment for Apple. Most of Apple's huge base is finding that it represents more a hindrance than an enhancement to their lives.