I don't know who you're talking about, but I would have expected Apple to sell a million $400 lollipops as long as they had the Apple logo on them.
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Apple Watch Received Estimated 1 Million Pre-Orders in U.S. on April 10
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People have two wrists. Once the market gets saturated for one WATCH per user, Apple will find a way to create a need to double their sales.
I can confirm you can buy two at a time,I did. One SS 42mm with classic buckle and a 38mm SS with a black modern buckle for my fiancé. Mine has a date of 4/24-5/8 and her's is 5/13-5/27. Both ordered at 12:02am PST.
This is news? Statistics from some place no one's heard of which has a small sample size of people (of unknown demographics) who supposedly allow them to scan their inboxes?
My neighbor's analysis revealed 10 million sales. My co-worker's numbers show 500 sales. And the lady at the grocery store doesn't know it even exists so that means 0 sales. These are all just as accurate as the figures from Slice Intelligence.
#bogus #notNews
My neighbor's analysis revealed 10 million sales. My co-worker's numbers show 500 sales. And the lady at the grocery store doesn't know it even exists so that means 0 sales. These are all just as accurate as the figures from Slice Intelligence.
#bogus #notNews
I don't know what planet you're on to think that this number from Friday on US for a new & untested product that all other brands had failed so far is low. Wow!
But keep spinning it guys. Like your deluded opinions matter to us.
Considering it took seven quarters to ship 1M Pebbles at $99-$199 each, preordering 1M WATCHes in one day at $349-$17000 each is pretty impressive, no?
If Apple can't get their disciples to pre-order 30 M. on the first day, Apple is doomed. Don't you get the memo?
Wow! What did the iPhone sell like 10 million pre-orders?
It's more impressive when you consider that 1M is ONLY for Friday AND United States. Let's say US made up 50% of the orders(conservative). That's 2M total for the 8 countries. iPhone launched in lot more countries. Let's also assume Friday was 80% of the weekend total(again, pretty conservative). That means 2.5M total for the launch weekend. Not bad for just 8 countries. For reference, iPhone 4 sold 1.7M in the launch weekend.
Also, one of the more bullish Apple analysts, Gene Munster, predicted only 300k in the first 24 hours.
Having worked in a market like this, I can honestly say there's a lot of shady things going on to gain this information and connect you, personally, to the information. Google got screwed by circumventing privacy in browsers, but a lot of lower level nobodies manage to get away with this.
It includes more than directly gaining emails. There's the session crawling, email trackings, content skimming... They even go as far as to purchase (and people sell) this type of information to create these datasets.
Does that mean these results are accurate or not? Dunno. However, I think an educated shot in the dark for such a mind boggling launch is something to raise brows about. The fact that they were able to extrapolate these kind of results is interesting, for sure.
I can envision this more like iPad sales...
Strong at first, gen 2 even stronger, and, by gen 5, it will decrease (from the previous year's numbers).
The mindset on watches of this price range is more of a keep for 5 years or more type of thing, not a "get every two years" like the phones are. Plus, the phones always have a feature that people are willing to drop their previous/current phones for.
Who's spinning anything? You're saying it's amazing, and others are saying it isn't. These are called... opinions. I know it's not often you see one that differs from your own around here, but in the real world, we call this "conversation."
Cheers!
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The difference being Apple's reputation and reach. They could have literally released a shiny turd for sale, and they'd have sold a large # of them. The most revealing numbers will be how this continues to sell over time.
Cheers!
I don't know what planet you're on to think that this number from Friday on US for a new & untested product that all other brands had failed so far is low. Wow!
But keep spinning it guys. Like your deluded opinions matter to us.
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The difference being Apple's reputation and reach. They could have literally released a shiny turd for sale, and they'd have sold a large # of them. The most revealing numbers will be how this continues to sell over time.
2 MILLION SMARTWATCHES WERE SOLD LAST YEAR, AND GALAXY GEAR IS LEADING
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/galaxy-gear-top-selling-smartwatch/
~800,000 Galaxy Gear smart watches sold.
I guess Apple just doubled the market segment overnight.
APPLE IS DOOMED!!!! /s
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/galaxy-gear-top-selling-smartwatch/
~800,000 Galaxy Gear smart watches sold.
I guess Apple just doubled the market segment overnight.
APPLE IS DOOMED!!!! /s
That's less than a TINY amount (for Apple), but a HUGE amount for a gen 1 product with no track record. Well done Apple
To all the people who inevitably, predictably, have - and will - say "iWatch is pointless", I say this to them - "Okay - so how much MORE pointless does that make all the direction-less, cumbersome Android smart watches?"
I don't personally think the Apple Watch is pointless, I just think it's very over priced for what it is. For the model that I would want (42mm stainless steel with black classic buckle) is $700. For comparison, a Moto 360 which also comes with a very good quality leather band, can be had for ~$180.
Besides the fact that it has a built-in speaker for phone calls which personally I'd never use, nothing really justifies the huge price difference.
PS. I've used a Moto 360 all day, every day, since release day. Love it.
I wasn't expecting the steel Watchwith black rubber band to be the most popular, but that's the one I ordered so I guess the majority of us have great taste!
Sorry, you are correct. I'm comparing the opening sales for iPhone compared to the preorders for the watch.
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You're right, but just trying to make point that the watch sales are hardly disappointing.
The fact that you've been using Moto 360 means that you have an android phone, so Apple watch doesn't apply to you anyway.
The same could be said for almost all of what Apple manufactures. Apple charges a premium because they can and because many of their products reflect a more sophisticated sense of design.
Your definition of screwing over is interesting. What you're really complaining about is that you didn't get preferential treatment and that is soooooooooo unfair. I can almost see your teddy being hurled into the corner.
If you can't cope with worldwide releases without howling about being screwed over, you better stop buying Apple products. The fact is international markets are now a massive contributor to Apples bottom line and this will most likely continue to grow. Do you really think Apple should relegate these vital markets to "2nd tier status" just so the US can get more stock at launch? You probably do actually and will come back with some some rubbish about it being a US company. It might well be listed and headquarters in the USA, but in terms of sales, it is international.
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What? They don't let you test drive it? Ridiculous. Makes no sense, especially for something that costs hundreds-thousands... At the very least they should have it paired w an in store iPhone so you can test the watch features.
I think this is more skewed because of the availability of each band. Many people I'm sure opted for the black sport band because that one seemed to have a better likelihood of a 4/24 delivery. That's the only reason I ordered on and ordered the brown loop seperately.
I've owned iPhone's in the past though, and my whole family uses iPhones. Have nothing against them, I just personally prefer to use an Android phone for my needs. Maybe in a week, month, year I'll switch to an iPhone for a while..
Irrelevant.
The point I'm saying is, I think the prices are set very high.