Apple Watch Sales Comprised Half of Smartwatch Market in 2018

[Soccertess]

What Apple fanboy has ever claimed marketshare as Apple's biggest asset or desire? In the U.S., iPhone marketshare is huge but still not even 50% last time I checked.
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The Watch still relies too much on the smartphone component which means Apple wouldn't be able to assure a good user experience. Look at all those cheap Android phones out there that would kill to be able to connect to an Apple Watch. Their garbage hardware, unsecured OS and malware-ridden apps would ruin the Apple Watch experience for all of those people and only make Apple look bad.

I think of market share as something tha t directly impacts the ecosystems. For example, most of the world (US is only 300M). So the less being on iOS, the less useful Animojis are, the less FaceTime is useful, and ability to send you heart beat or walkie talkie in Apple Watch. Most are useless features but you get the point

 

[LordVic]

not terribly surprised. Except for Apple and Samsung, the smartwatch market died and burned when Qualcomm stopped trying to innovate their CPU's for this market and Pebble became extinct.

And While I love my gear watch, there is no surprise that Apple Watch engagment is higher for those using iPhone's versus Galaxy users using the Galaxy watch


but we're only talking Marketshare. it's kind of an irrelevant number if you don't know the size of the market

 

[johnnygee]

The Apple watch runs plenty of apps besides health. News headlines, Twitter, email, messages, stock market listings, Apple Pay, weather radar through RadarScope, Dictionary, etc...The possibilities are nearly endless. Are similar apps available for the fitbit versa or ionic?
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Could you eleborate ?
Who are those people you claim to know who's lifes were saved by an Apple watch, and what where the circumstances ?

apple-watch-ecg-saves-life

 

[I7guy]

I think of market share as something tha t directly impacts the ecosystems. For example, most of the world (US is only 300M). So the less being on iOS, the less useful Animojis are, the less FaceTime is useful, and ability to send you heart beat or walkie talkie in Apple Watch. Most are useless features but you get the point

One persons useless is another persons must have. I have fun with Animojis. Facetime and imessage is used to talk to my family scattered here and there, without dickering about 3rd party apps.

As far as the Apple Watch, whether or not it relies on IOS and whether or not those view it as a hinderance or a positive, is up to the individual.

 

[votdfak]

Love S3, can't wait for S5. I would love to get sapphire version. Maybe one day. If only this joke of a country/mobile providers had esim support.

 

[nikusak]

That being said, how can they have dropped 16% marketshare in a year?!

Easily.

Except that they haven’t “dropped” anything. Surely we are going to see sensational clickbait articles about this.

The whole smartwatch market is expanding. Samsung is pretty much the only decent choice for Android users.

Android’s global market share is ~85%.

(Of course it’s lot less in wealthy markets like USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, UK, parts of EU.)

If and when Android users start buying smartwatches Apple’s share will naturally get smaller and smaller. Apple Watch sales would need to grow by triple digits to keep up.

If 10% of Android users get a smartwatch it’s 250-300 million units. If 10% of iPhone users get an Apple Watch it’s 90 million units and roughly 25% market share.

But so what?

Apple’s share of smartwatch sales is somewhat irrelevant metric because there are effectively two smartwatch markets:

Smartwatches for iPhone
Smartwatches for Android

The most interesting metric for AW’s success (in addition to annual growth) is perhaps: how many iPhone users own or plan on getting one and how that figure develops.

(Loving my S2, great product despite some shortcomings).

 

[RobertMartens]

Apple shipped 9.2 million Apple Watch units during Q4 2018, according to the report, rising 18 percent from 7.8 million units in Q4 2017.

7.8 million watches in 90 days. Say, how many seconds are there in 90 days?
Well that's interesteing that you asked.

There are 7.8 million seconds in 90 days. How do you like that!

 

[Napalm Doctor]

The fact that they pushed LTE more than any other company help, as a lot of Apple Watch are bought subsidized trough the carriers.

 

[lowendlinux]

In the end I'm not sure there is any value in comparing Apple Watch sales to *other

People aren't going to switch from iPhone because of a watch and the other way is also generally true. What I like on the Android side though is the plethora of watches available, everything from my Nixon Mission to slim and elegant.