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How come the 38mm are shipping faster than the 42mm?
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No one knows. Maybe they had a problem with the production. Maybe they underestimated the demand. Apple's not telling.
well, I think it is safe to say more men than women are ordering the apple watch. If that is true, then look at the threads on the forums. About 1/3 are ordering the 38mm and 2/3 the 42mm.
It seems that they discovered fairly late, perhaps after they had already committed to the April 24 launch date, that there was a flaw with the Taptic engines produced by one of their two suppliers. So they had to discard, recycle or remanufacture a substantial number of Watches that had already been produced. Rather than push back the launch and cause everyone to get their Watch late, they decided to just launch on the date they had already promised, with the limited inventory they had.
Supply and demand... supply and demand.
Hard to predict supply on a first generation product. Now that they have hard data on what people are buying, they're adjusting their production.
It really is literally impossible to predict. And from what I remember when I visited Apple a few years back on business, they don't conduct any user studies ahead of time that some other companies do that can sometimes yield this information.
Once this irons out, it'll be smooth sailing, most likely for the 2nd generation as well.
Hard to predict supply on a first generation product. Now that they have hard data on what people are buying, they're adjusting their production.
It really is literally impossible to predict. And from what I remember when I visited Apple a few years back on business, they don't conduct any user studies ahead of time that some other companies do that can sometimes yield this information.
Once this irons out, it'll be smooth sailing, most likely for the 2nd generation as well.
One would think they could have used that whole Favorites feature that they've been encouraging people to use on their website. Surely some sort of indication could have been used from that data to predict a trend one way or another.
Either that or it was just a cool way for us to just bookmark the ones we thought were cooler and it was never intended to get any sort of useful data.
Either that or it was just a cool way for us to just bookmark the ones we thought were cooler and it was never intended to get any sort of useful data.
