Hey galaxy watches look like that and sell like crap...so clearly how that looks doesn’t get people to switch
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Apple Watch Sales Grew to 6.8 Million Units in Q3 2019, up 51% From Last Year
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I’ve seen one very expensive mechanical watch where the price includes a service in 2099. They need to replace one part (because 2100 is the first year in 200 years that is divisible by four but not a leap year).
Not all analog watches are round, and putting function over form is just common sense.
iWatch is another outside the park home run for Tim Apple.
P.S. D to D minus. You gotta step up your troll game; you can do better!
Yes, some were returned, however all the folks I know having purchased a Apple Watch, none returned them; nor have they considered returning them. You asked a question thus one ? is enough.
Compared to the S3, it’s much much better. Technology moves fairly quickly so I wouldn’t doubt syncing continues to improve.
Assuming the company is even still around by then, or the owner’s descendants even remember that they have such a watch lying around.
Clearly the used market deems nicer finishes as fluff as resale for SS and Aluminum are usually fairly close.
Other than Hermès bands and some other rare bands (and maybe the 24k Edition models) though, Watch resale sucks.
In regards to the Watch becoming independant I believe that will end up being like when Apple released the first Windows iPod, aka sales will explode.
PS: Series 0 sales must have been far lower considering how many people have the S5 as their first one!
A Rolex is a piece of jewellery which you can hand down from generation to generation. It never goes out of date.
Neither will a rock.
I guess I understand why some people adore luxury watches so much. My mom loves gold jewellery as well, and she rationalises her purchases by pointing out they retain their gold value at the end of the day.
That said, you can’t escape the gathering storm. Fitbit is just the first of many casualties as the Apple Watch gains in both popularity and functionality. And who knows where it will stop.
I am calling it now. As Apple continues to redefine what utility on the wrist entails, the next target will be the Swiss Watch industry. They have painted themselves into a corner by selling the wrist as a place for intangibles, and it’s painfully obvious that they just don’t have a legitimate way of responding to the Apple Watch.
Jony Ive may have alluded to this in jest, but I don’t think any of the Swiss watch manufacturers are laughing. Fossil, Garmin, the fallout will be like watching the titanic heading for the iceberg.
Fight it. Deny it. Try to run from it. Destiny will come for them all the same.
It doesn't need better tech, it just needs a sensible product manager. Currently I can't do 1:1 sync from the iPhone to the Watch. I can sync single songs, or I can sync playlists, which I can compile by adding songs one by one. Pain in the arse. Especially for me, as I literally don't have any playlists, I just shuffle my 2k+ songs all the time.
Also, if Apple had any innovative minds, they would allow me to put songs on the Watch in Opus encoding, which takes around half the bitrate (read: half the disk space) to sound the same. But they're just too stubborn and proud to push anything besides AAC. I'm yet to find a way to put Opus files even on my iPhone lol. I could copy one file to OneDrive, then download on the phone to "On My iPhone", then navigate there in the Files app, and then it would actually play beautifully... but that's it. It won't appear in the Music app ever. Opus is the best encoder you've never heard of. All current day OSes support it, it just doesn't have much integration. It's a shame.
An Apple Watch is a tool you can actually use every day for its multiple function. I can pass down $15 thousand to another generation and still get daily use of an Apple Watch.
why ?
Since I passed my Series 4 to my son, I bought a new Series 5.
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it would be a nightmare as far as UI is concerned.AW needs a redesign overhaul and the faux leather band looks embarrassingly cheap. It would have closer to 73% YoY growth if it looked more like this.
Just like any android / Tizen smartwatch.
I don't know what "faux leather band" you are referring. Apple sells genuine leather bands.
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i don't know what an "iWatch" is.
Maybe some Chinese ripoff ?
By the way, watches may be round (many are not), but we are speaking about SMARTwatches here. And using a square display they are actually putting FUNCTION over form.
Very poor trolling attempt.
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Okay you do know you can have paired more than one AW to your iPhone? I have both my S4 and my S5 paired to my iPhone 8. Somedays I wear my 4 and somedays I wear my 5 which is set to always on. I also have gold Omegas and an IWC stuck away in a drawer somewhere.....never used.
It's the weather data I find interesting (I have the CARROT app on my AWs)....eg humidity here where I live is 90% while in Sydney where they are expecting "catastrophic" fire conditions on Tuesday the humidity is 0%!!!!
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I got the first Apple Watch on launch day in 2015 and I’ve had one ever since. I find it incredibly useful, in some ways almost as useful as my phone. I’ve never forgotten to wear it. I use mine to triage notifications and calls, to set reminders and timers, for Apple Pay, to locate my phone when I can’t find it, as a flashlight, to get quick information via Siri, as a calculator. I also use it for Audio and as a stand-alone device via cellular when I don’t have my phone with me.
Cartier would differ with your assessment. Not one round smartwatch has come even close to the sales numbers of the Apple Watch.
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I love my Apple Watch. Found an opened box mint condition series 5 44mm on eBay for $350.
I really have to ask, “what info” because atleast i feel my apple watch is quite restricted to display the content. A smatwatch doesnt need to mimic a normal watch and use the whole display for huge clock or days or... it should be possible to show info which i need i could see once when checking the display - as it was on my former android smatwatch already on year 2012... if i want my smartwatch showing the same info as a normal watch, i rather get a normal watch then. I wish i could configure my apple watch as i was able to do with my sony smatwatch years ago...
