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IDC Estimates Apple Watch Sales Totaled 3.6 Million in Second Quarter
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We? Who's this "we" you speak of?
Speaking for everyone or are you Borg?I would venture most people aren't emotionally invested in companies. At least not enough to hate.
We? Who's this "we" you speak of?
I would venture most people aren't emotionally invested in companies. At least not enough to hate.
Don't make me assimilate you!
I borrowed a Fitbit Charge HR for a week and it was way better at keeping your heart rate over the Apple Watch. I would lose my heart rate 1-3 times per hour with the Apple Watch and zero or one time for the FitBit but that is all I can see a FitBit doing. Exercise. Not an every day device. Too unprofessional looking.
Fitbit does one thing really well and it will sell great until Apple makes all the same features in their watch and then they will be number one. My guess is that apple adds more features in bands and starting soon.
I absolutely love my Apple Watch SS and the bands. It does everything else better than FitBit but no one should rip Fitbit. It is good for what it does.
Fitbit does one thing really well and it will sell great until Apple makes all the same features in their watch and then they will be number one. My guess is that apple adds more features in bands and starting soon.
I absolutely love my Apple Watch SS and the bands. It does everything else better than FitBit but no one should rip Fitbit. It is good for what it does.
One of my friends got a Samsung Galaxy Gear as an indirect gift. Looked like a McDonald's toy and was pretty impractical. They even tried to stick a bulging-out camera on the wristband. The Apple Watch doesn't look great either, but it's the nicest smart watch I've seen.
What it really boils down to is people are beginning to see the value in wearables. This is still a fairly new market and it takes time for the public to "get" the value. Of Course, the value and use cases is different for everyone. Some it is strictly fitness but others it is more like notifications, apps, and so on.Surprising to see that Fitbit has increased 168%. I wonder if Apple has made people more interested in the category or if Fitbit is doing something different that is driving so much growth.
Anyway, this still seems amazing growth for Apple. I for one love my watch and am happy to be in debt up to my eyeballs
As the market matures, sales will only increase significantly. I personally feel Apple will see significant growth of the watch, especially with the release of iOS Watch 2. People saying Apple watch sales were poor are idiots. The only thing poor about their sales were the bloated and obnoxious numbers analysts were giving, not Apple. In time, the AppleWatch is going to be huge, and wearables in general will morph, change and improve to a level where a large segment of the population will see value in them and be buying in droves. In 5 years wearables will be Massive and the AppleWatch will be a big part of this. Who knows who the leader will be but I strongly feel Apple will be one of them if not the primary leader.
Those people usually start to appear on page 3 or 4 of the thread.
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
I could see it as an entry level wearable, for some, to find out if they will actually use/wear it. Personally, I won't buy a first gen watch, but I could see myself spending $80 on a fitbit to help me decide if I should get a gen 2 watch. I am also hoping for GPS in Gen 2.
Imagine if at the end of the run, you could use that device in your write to buy a bottle of water from a NFC vending machine!
The Apple Watch does track the distance ran without needing an iPhone.
Shouldn't this yield about 80 posts along the lines of Fitbit being "a piece of junk" and all variants of that one? Maybe about 25 posts revolving around some Apple Watch-only feature(s) being spun as if it is massively important? 10-20 posts should spin fault-finding with the analysis itself. And 5-10 posts should spin "...but which wearable is the most profitable?" and similar.
Oh dear lord this guy again who lives in his own little out of touch alternate universe. Creating contexts to posts that don't exist with zero evidence, and bizarre fantasy-laden cable and music business model opinions where he creates the numbers to support his agenda.
And I regret not buying the 42mm size. Will be getting the larger size when gen 2 is out. I stubbornly stuck to the idea that the large model would be too big for my small wrists. That was a mistake. After a few months my eyes were begging for the larger screen.
Shouldn't this yield about 80 posts along the lines of Fitbit being "a piece of junk" and all variants of that one? Maybe about 25 posts revolving around some Apple Watch-only feature(s) being spun as if it is massively important? 10-20 posts should spin fault-finding with the analysis itself. And 5-10 posts should spin "...but which wearable is the most profitable?" and similar.
Well, I haven't counted the "fitbit is stupid!" posts but it definitely yields another useless "blah blah this community suuuuuucks bla bla" post...
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"On topic: While the numbers aren't all that great (unless you're one of the competitors, in that case they'd be quite good, I suppose), I can imagine that the Best Buy-sales will add to the next quarter.
How would you tell? Taking out a smartphone was a fairly obvious way to an iPhone, then the first wave of Androids. Even so, I remember when Android started to ramp up, that there was a surprisingly long period (maybe a year) when it was really unusual for me to see someone with an Android phone.
Meanwhile a watch on the wrist just does not stand out unless you're being very creepy in how you look at people. Some of the band colors are more striking, but the white or black sports bands, or the more expensive bands are not that obvious.
It's also worth considering the numbers. Assuming that Apple's shipped say 2 million in the US. That means about one per 180 people; with higher concentrations in SF, NYC, LA, and lower concentrations elsewhere. That, with the difficulty of obviously seeing a watch as an aWatch, seem to me all the explanation necessary.
I'm no fan of IDC; but there is a difference between a prediction (which is, ultimately based on faith and fantasy) and a report of what has happened. IDC probably make their estimate based on things like talking to the companies that supplies the watch screens or the batteries and seeing how their shipments ramped up over the past quarter. They can supplement this with things like surveys to see if the various numbers all kinda correlate.
Their figure of around a million a month certainly matches up with what other observers have suggested.
Sorry but I'd bet that most of the Samsung Watches I've seen were given away with the purchase of one of their phones.
As if people into buying fashionable things have any taste. $500+ women's shoes?? $1000++ handbags???
If your eyes are struggling with the 38mm, the 42mm is not going to do much.
I am a fan of IDC, but I agree with your main point. Predictions are often inaccurate.