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Samsung Sells Just 50,000 Galaxy Gear Smart Watches, Exec Says Product is Unripe [Updated]

Wonder what Apple will do to make their iWatch "essential", when they launch it.
Probably remove features from the iPhone and put in the iWatch, or make features that easily could be in the iPhone exclusive to the iWatch instead, so you have to own both!
 
I'm glad there are a few others who share my opinion of this. Who says Apple's version will be successful? I'm sure some people will buy it because it is an Apple product, which is lame. Personally I would not want this product if the price was $0.
 
overcast said:
Anyone who wears watches these days, is going to wear a real watch. Not some tacky, and plastic like that.
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I have a Tag heuer that I used to wear most days (aside from occasionally wearing a fossil with a nice leather strap). Since getting my pebble I can count on one hand the number of days I haven't worn it, and since the recent firmware / app update I can see it dropping to virtually no days at all. You can't underestimate the convenience of seeing notifications at a glance of your watch rather than digging your phone out of your pocket, or being able to reject a call from someone etc. Everyday I see new and cool things that people are doing with their pebbles (albeit with a bit of work on their part). Ok so it's a bit basic looking, but add a decent strap and it is a very nice addition to your wrist.

Where I think Samsung have gone wrong is trying to do their usual of cramming as much techno-guff as they possibly can with no thought as to why people would want it and how to provide the battery power for it.

If Apple are to enter this market I think they would be far better leaning towards the less is more approach of the pebble in terms of tech and bringing the usual Apple build quality and useability.
 
Sony SW2 is cheaper and better

Looks like Samsung does not know how to create a product to begin with. Why would any fool pay $300 for a digital watch without any useful functions. Still 50,000 people believed in it….good luck with Samsung.
 
Oui said:
Except Apple will sell at least that many, launch day of their iWhatever.
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I'm sure that Apple can build a watch that sells more than 50,000 on the launch day. However, 50,000 on launch day would _still_ be considered a flop.

If Samsung sells 50,000 in two months, how much better would an Apple product have to be to be worthwhile selling for Apple? There's a huge huge gap there to fill. Maybe it is impossible to fill. Maybe there is just not a market for that kind of product.

_If_ Apple is working on a smart watch, which is rumor and not fact, then this is very bad news for the team doing it. They might have looked at the Samsung watch and said "we can build something that sells ten times as many". With Samsung's 50,000 sales, "ten times as many" probably means the product gets canned.
 
Samsung needs to stick an apple logo to new devices. Also it would be nice to advertise it with a oversimplified music don't forget the bells...
 
Windlasher said:
Apple should put out a really cool watch that:


1: Tells time.
2: Shows who a message or call is from so you can tell if you want to bother pulling out your phone.
3: Monitors heart rate and calls 911 if there is an emergency, or transfers your run into your nike account.
4: Looks really freakin cool

Thats it.

and they should sell it for $49.
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That's never going to happen. The heart rate monitors you wear around your chest are prone to dropping out sometimes, never mind one embedded directly into the watch on your wrist. Can you imagine the fuss with thousands of false alarms placing calls to emergency services?

Everyone still seems to be overlooking the fact that Garmin have been making "smart" watches targeted at the fitness market for years. They might have slightly clunky interfaces compared to something that Apple could come up with, but they're excellent products which are well refined now for what they do and you see quite a lot of them among runners.

I honestly can't imagine any "fitness-targeted" watch from Apple or Samsung having much bigger sales figures than what Garmin sells currently as it's always going to be a fairly niche market, unless they are able to sell it at a *much* cheaper price or they come up with some amazing idea which none of us are thinking of at the moment.
 
We all knowing Chinese best at copying and that going for Koreans. They needing to see a winner then they having a chance to kicking ass. But sometimes they making mistake they can create.
 
Prince134 said:
When a watch is a must to wear, it would be like when people working as a banker for example. In that case, wearing a nice watch for a man just like women wearing wake ups to make he or she look appropriate.
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I think you're missing the young and "hipster" market. Also the one for normal people, who don't want to dig into their pocket for simple tasks, or bring out an expensive phone in a crowded street. It needs to look good, do a few simple tasks and not advertise that you have an iphone in your pocket.
 
Oletros said:
Do people really think that companies develop a whole new type of product just because in some forums there a rumors?
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Do you think the iWatch rumours only existed in 'some forums'? What about all those industry analysts and newspapers like WSJ?

Of course tech companies react to rumours. That's why other tech companies keep things secret. :rolleyes:

I'm surprised nobody in this thread has also mentioned those rumours from a while back about an Apple TV with supposed gesture controls. Those rumours were followed by stories about TV manufacturers scrambling to be ready for a potentially disruptive product from Apple, followed a few months later by the truly embarrassing gesture controlled TVs from... well you know who.
 
mw360 said:
Do you think the iWatch rumours only existed in 'some forums'? What about all those industry analysts and newspapers like WSJ?

Of course tech companies react to rumours. That's why other tech companies keep things secret. :rolleyes:

I'm surprised nobody in this thread has also mentioned those rumours from a while back about an Apple TV with supposed gesture controls. Those rumours were followed by stories about TV manufacturers scrambling to be ready for a potentially disruptive product from Apple, followed a few months later by the truly embarrassing gesture controlled TVs from... well you know who.
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Yes, yes, yes, Samsung only make things because there are rumors of Apple doing that. Well, if you're happy believing that companies are such stupid it is your prerogative. And Santa really exists

My God, and now even Samsung smart gestures is an answer to some rumors about Apple doing a TV? Really? I can't believe people can believe that nonsense
 
iSimon said:
Since getting my pebble I can count on one hand the number of days I haven't worn it, and since the recent firmware / app update I can see it dropping to virtually no days at all. You can't underestimate the convenience of seeing notifications at a glance of your watch rather than digging your phone out of your pocket, or being able to reject a call from someone etc.
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I think this nails it. There is a market for a smart watch done properly. The question is whether Pebble can survive if Apple get into the market.
 
Or maybe it's the return of the old Samsung strategy to announce channel sales, instead of end user sales.

This is an issue with all sales reports in the electronic industry this past couple of years, look it up (like with Samsung first android tablet as proven by the real numbers shown during the trial).
 
in Europe they give them for free

Samsung and sony give this crap away :D for free. No one wants it :D and that is why Apple waits. Apple lets them burn first, before they show them how to do it.
 
Oletros said:
Yes, yes, yes, Samsung only make things because there are rumors of Apple doing that. Well, if you're happy believing that companies are such stupid it is your prerogative. And Santa really exists

My God, and now even Samsung smart gestures is an answer to some rumors about Apple doing a TV? Really? I can't believe people can believe that nonsense
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Or instead of hyperbole, you can actually look at the situation like a smart adult and say "sometimes companies can make products based on rumours" which is most certainly true.
 
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