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Apple Watch Received Estimated 1 Million Pre-Orders in U.S. on April 10
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I'm skeptical that people would let an outfit called Slice Intelligence track their email receipts. Unless it's being tracked without consumers knowledge?
Thanks for that bit of information. Could you tell us why you weren't impressed? Otherwise it's kind of a useless opinion.
I'm curious to see exactly how many they sold as well. I'm not even going to speculate because I know I'll be wrong 
Yeah, 1 million pre-ordered on FIRST day...
50% will be returned because everyone ordered 2 different sizes just to try...
Another 25% will be returned because they realize the Watch sucks...
100,000 are just developers buying watches
10,000 are just media/reporters buying watches
90% of the remainder are just sheep buying because they have to - because they're loyal to Apple. They'll be in their sock drawers within a week
Maybe there will be 100 people that buy it for real and really use it.
Android Wear has 700,000 loyal customers who love their watches and it changed their lives.
So, Android is winning 7000 to 1.
This is the Android spin we'll see in the coming days....
Reread. They don't give you the average sale price overall. Also the study only reports US. Not worldwide. It's going to be much larger that 1/2billion.
Not to mention that this estimate is just the United States. Estimates worldwide I think are around 5 to 5.5 million sold. If that is in fact the case than that is HUGE, especially since it took Android Wear 6 months to sell 700,000 units and a couple of years for the Pebble Watch to sell 1 million. At any rate pretty good. They must only had 1 million for April 24th - May 8th shipment. I think that allotment sold out within the first 15 minutes. Crazy!
Wow! What did the iPhone sell like 10 million pre-orders?
That's the current iPhone, but this definitely beats the original iPhone preorders on 2007. If we compare 1st gen iPhone to 1st gen Watch, this wins.
"Some 62% of buyers opted for the low-end aluminum Sports model, which starts at $349."
People keep referring to the Sport model as low-end. Not sure when a $350 fashion accessory became low-end. Entry-level would be more apt.
"Most" is a hasty generalization based on what you've seen people doing on this forum.
People keep referring to the Sport model as low-end. Not sure when a $350 fashion accessory became low-end. Entry-level would be more apt.
"Most" is a hasty generalization based on what you've seen people doing on this forum.
It went available for pre order this past Friday. Its the weekend, buddy. I'm sure they will announce something during the week, this week or next.
Just because your not sure why you bought the Apple watch doesn't mean you need to bash Android and everyone else who didn't buy one.
Seriously though, who made you mad?
It's an Apple product so a great opening weekend is expected. What remains to be seen is long term sales. Is this an iPhone which continues to gain in sales each revision or is this an iPad which already peaked and is in decline at this point?
I'm not trying to be negative, but it's hard to say if a product is a long term success by the opening weekend.
It's still not a fair comparison though. Apple is coming off a string of successful products. Had the watch come out when people didn't trust Apple that much, it too would've had a similar start to the various Android devices and who knows if Sammy and others would've even released a smart watch before Apple.
Yeah, I guess over three times the amount of iPad that sold in its first day is a bit small.
Wow! What did the iPhone sell like 10 million pre-orders?
Don't forget, this is just the United States. Considering China was part of the initial launch it could easily be 2-4 million sold.
What I don't like is that you have to spend a $1000 just to get a space black SS. It makes no sense whatsoever. Not sure why a Space Black with with sport band wasn't offered.