Quanta Reportedly Likely to Stop Assembling the Apple Watch in 2020 Due to Profit Concerns

[brewcitywi]

I believe that Apple could optimize the construction and assembly of the watch a bit, and solve a great deal of the issues involved - with some design tweaks.

I totally agree. Maybe you should optimize your wrist, first.

 

[Shirasaki]

That is true. Most of the time I am able to get through the day with a single charge.

But as the rumors suggested (official) sleep tracking is coming to Apple Watch soon, when will be a good time to charge it? It will be an interesting problem to solve ...

For me the best time to charge is when I am sure I won’t move around a lot or when I am taking a shower. I wear the watch while sleeping for a bit of simple sleep tracking and I charge my watch usually one or two hours before I go to bed.

 

[bruinsrme]

What can the Apple watch do that a standard garmin 945 cant? Or vivoactive?

I use my garmin for workouts,runs, cycling. It tracks everything,gps constantly on. Lets me upload data to strava, it connects to my watch so i know when an sms or email comes in. I got heartrate and always on display, super long battery life. Activity tracking with gps for 5 hrs only uses 10%ish.

it tracks so much data you can go nuts analyzing it. When im out riding, garmin has a feature to track where my friends are, theres even a live playback of your ride where garmin tracks the cyclists around you and lets you know where they are relative to you in animation.

it tracks the daily temperature, altitude climbed and so much more.

it has ant and bluetooth so i can connect to any speed cadence meter for cycling, power meters and running cadence sensors too.

sometimes i wear it to work so it tracks my steps, how many stairs i climbed as well.

so how is the apple watch better? Using some app in a tiny screen? Im serious though,how is an apple watch superior?

In the same way your Garmin is superior to you. It suits your needs. I don’t need all that, I need more connectivity features than I need altitude and cadence.

 

[truthertech]

It might be due to their own management issues. Apple Watch is the best selling wearable device right now.

I do not own one and I will not until they give me a good battery life, some of the competitors can go up to 7 days on a single charge, I just do not trust their quality.

LOL. The reason those competitor's watches last longer is that the only do a fraction of what the Apple Watch does. While Apple is inexorably improving the battery life, they can't change battery chemistry law until new materials are developed. So choose your poison- if you want multiple days of battery life in a reasonable size watch, then don't ask the battery to do high performance items.

 

[damphoose]

What can the Apple watch do that a standard garmin 945 cant? Or vivoactive?

I use my garmin for workouts,runs, cycling. It tracks everything,gps constantly on. Lets me upload data to strava, it connects to my watch so i know when an sms or email comes in. I got heartrate and always on display, super long battery life. Activity tracking with gps for 5 hrs only uses 10%ish.

it tracks so much data you can go nuts analyzing it. When im out riding, garmin has a feature to track where my friends are, theres even a live playback of your ride where garmin tracks the cyclists around you and lets you know where they are relative to you in animation.

it tracks the daily temperature, altitude climbed and so much more.

it has ant and bluetooth so i can connect to any speed cadence meter for cycling, power meters and running cadence sensors too.

sometimes i wear it to work so it tracks my steps, how many stairs i climbed as well.

so how is the apple watch better? Using some app in a tiny screen? Im serious though,how is an apple watch superior?

You just described a very nice fitness tracker. Yes, the Apple Watch lets you run thousands of apps on tiny screen. That’s not for you? Great. You seem to need or want a full featured fitness device and not a mini computer which is what the Apple Watch is. I hate those apples. Why? Because they are inferior oranges. but they are not oranges at all....

 

[lxmeta]

So you’re giving up your smartphone right? 😉

Which is not on my wrist, and not tracking my sleep. And yes, I go cycling and swimming etc without it! It is actually off when I’m sleeping. The smartwatches try to go where the phone can’t, to track even more of your vitals and behaviors...

 

[Tech198]

Bargaining tactics. Will Apple bite and agree to a higher price for services rendered?

lol @ "Will Apple bite"

 

[MadeTheSwitch]

Which is not on my wrist, and not tracking my sleep. And yes, I go cycling and swimming etc without it! It is actually off when I’m sleeping. The smartwatches try to go where the phone can’t, to track even more of your vitals and behaviors...

You sound pretty dependent on those gadgets during your waking hours. I just don’t understand that. 😉 LOL

 

[sinsin07]

AppleWatch isn't just a watch, and it's not just a fitness tracker; it's a wrist worn computer. Those watches or fitness trackers that offer 7 day battery life are not wrist computers, they're watches or fitness trackers. You'll be waiting a really long time if you're waiting for a computer to last you 7 days between charges.

What makes a computer a computer?
If they are not computers how do they track anything?
Your definition of computers is flawed.

 

[mech986]

Apple watches flying off the shelves means profit for Apple, not necessarily Quanta. The complaint in the article states lack of profit for Quanta (not Apple) as reason for wanting to exit AW manufacturing. Contract manufacturing doesn't typically generate high margin profit and the manufacturers primarily get by on volume. If the volume generates profit that is too minimal or worse, negative, selling the under performing plant makes sense. It's all speculation so we don't know if it's true or not. Apple does have a reputation of squeezing suppliers to maximize their profit so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You would think that suppliers would buy a lot of AAPL stock so as to improve their own investments and cash in on what they helped to create.