Thanks for offering your personal aesthetic. I happen to think that it looks better than any Android Wear product, and rectangular screens make 1000x more sense for a smartwatch than circular screens, so opinions vary. Your opinion on the Apple Watch's price, for example...$350 might be high for you, but it's obviously not too high for millions of people.
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Apple Watch U.S. Online Sales Estimated at 3 Million Through 3 Months
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Thanks for offering your personal aesthetic. I happen to think that it looks better than any Android Wear product, and rectangular screens make 1000x more sense for a smartwatch than circular screens, so opinions vary. Your opinion on the Apple Watch's price, for example...$350 might be high for you, but it's obviously not too high for millions of people.
Not much a wearable fan here too.
A real computer still does thing faster and comfortably than a smartphone.
To get work done if only have so much time, certainly I won't whip out a smartphone (even iPhone).
Working on a smartphone is still a pain
Not to mention a wearable watch. It is a nay, for me.
If I have time to waste.....may be.
Actually the article said and average of $13.7k. Thats over $25 million is hardware sales from just 1.8k customers. Thats the richest pool of customers apple has ever had.
Just backing you up on your point.
He's fake.
I think he was trying to follow in the foot steps of SJ with the iPhone & iPad introduction but he didn't recognize that simply saying a product is revolutionary without being actually revolutionary makes the words hollow.
I remember watching the introduction and being like... well android wear already does that.
still impressive numbers for US alone, looking to see world wide figures though and I will be picking up my Apple Watch tomorrow.
Agreed re: world wide numbers. Three million units sold is nice, especially since you really need another device to take advantage of the features.
The world numbers is going to be very, very, interesting!
OK, queue in semantical arguing:
I agree "Apple has always combined technology with liberal arts and humanities".
The argument I made is that recently, the needle is leaning way, way further into the "liberal arts and humanities" while "dumbing-down" (or crippling, limiting, locking-down, or whatever term you want to use) the "technology" part.
The definition of "real computers" does vary depending on who you ask, but the fact remains that Apple "computers" of today are far more like appliances than the devices Apple made when the term "Computer" was still in the company's name.
So, when I say "real computer", I mean "not a sealed, unnecessarily proprietary appliance".
Hahaha. Agreed. I was referring more to the curmudgeon-like attitude, but I guess that can occur at any age...
As pointed out earlier, it's sales are in line with other major Apple first gen products, and it's an accessory at that. That doesn't seem to be a total failure, at least at this point.
And also as you say it's not a stand alone device so why are people comparing sales to iphone or ipad?
I personally and frankly don't want an Apple watch even if it was half the current price.and at least 5 other people that I spoke to shared tge same disinterest.needless to say all of us are avid Apple fans and own a good number of Apple products.
face it : Apple Watch is never going to be a success.it will be a hobby product like Apple TV.
face it : Apple Watch is never going to be a success.it will be a hobby product like Apple TV.
For the purposes of replying to people calling it an obvious failure so far. It's both not obvious (since the numbers in the original article (for what they're worth) are in line with previous released products) and expecting it to reach the same numbers as the other products is foolhardy (since it's an accessory).
I have no idea if it's a "failure" or a "success", I just know that based off of those numbers, it's a lot more revenue (~ $1.5 Billion in revenue is a lot, even for a company that brought in $58 Billion in Q2. For example it's triple the revenue of Twitter, just for the watch).
not sure bout the rest of the post, but this has to STOP BEING REPEATED
Apple has done a fantastic job at moving up in the PC sales market. From 6% to 12% in about a decade. But Apple is NOT stealing vast numbers of WINDOWS users.
Considering that Apple computers now also run Windows, its near impossible to claim what the true breakdown of Windows to OSx is, but it's definitely estimated that OSx is < 10% of the worldwide marketshare of Computer users.
better than 5% for sure, But there's not some mass global move away from Windows that you'd like to believe. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding and misinterpretation by Apple's fantastic product placement in popular culture.
some sources:
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
http://www.tekrevue.com/windows-8-outpaces-os-x-mavericks/
The simple fact that Windows 8, with it's terrible UI choices, at 8.5% is estimated to have already blown completely by all of OSx install base is telling.
Don't get me wrong, I RUN OSx. I also run windows on my Macs as well.
sorry, I just get a bit of OCD when Hyperbolic statements are used that aren't fundamentally backed in fact
But there is not vast migration away from windows that you claim
OnTOPIC
as for the AW: how do any of us know ifit was a success or not. if Apple's budgeting profit and loss on the device was accurate and they've hit the numbers that the accountants put in the books, it is by all intents and purposes, a success.
we just wont know. We're never privy to that
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I feel like you read my post and interpreted it as meaning 'gosh guys, of course it sold incredibly well'. That's not what I was saying at all, I said right in my post that it easily could be a huge flop. My only point was that it's too early to tell for either the naysayers or the supporters.
Your response is a bit knee jerk based on something in your head, not what I actually wrote.
1. I didn't write that Windows was losing share to OS X.
2. I didn't write that Windows was losing share to Apple.
What I wrote was, and I quote verbatim: "people are still going away from Windows devices."
It's not 1994. Mac vs PC is dead. It's traditional computers vs tablets and smartphones now. More and more businesses are giving employees tablets and smartphones in lieu of desktops and laptops, where the latter are overkill for their communications needs. Same goes for consumers. Where homes once had a desktop and a laptop, now have a laptop and a tablet or multiple smartphones. Fewer people are buying laptops and desktops of any OS, and those who are buying, are buying fewer of them.
I wrote what I wrote because the Surface Pro contains a flavor of Windows 8. And while mobile is the big sales segment, the Surface Pro has yet to gain any real traction, notwithstanding Microsoft's huge NFL promotion.
If you are still in doubt then you can start with this Fortune Article: http://fortune.com/2015/04/23/microsoft-cloud-windows-decline/
It depends how one would define success and what the organisation desires. I don't think Apple is expecting the Watch to be similar in terms of revenue to the iPhone or iPad. And those that do expect this don't understand the market enough. Even if the wearables market increases very fast, it would never attain the size of these aforementioned products.
It is most likely that Apple defines success for the Apple Watch as it having the largest and growing market share in any of Apples markets within the year that it is introduced, and that it is driven by sales of the iPhone and vice versa. So an increase in market share for the iPhone results in an increase in market share for the watch.
In terms of importance for its mobile computing line, I'm sure Apple rates the Watch much higher than the Apple TV (judging by the amount of development and marketing effort) and doesn't consider it a hobby. 3 million watches sold might seem like a small amount if you think in iPhone terms, but looking at the entire wearables market it is very very impressive. They succeeded in blowing the competition out of the way in the most important and most developed wearables market on the planet.