800,000 in two months? Well that's far better than Microsoft could manage with their Surface RTs. They only managed to sell 400,000 of those in the first six months.
Last edited:
Every single post in this thread is stupid.
1) The Galaxy Gear is not made for people with a standard phone. It is made for people who have a phablet like the note 3.
People can have all the benefits of a large screen for apps and games and emails, but also the convenience of being able to tell the time, or check a txt message or make a phone call without pulling a small tablet out of their pocket/bag.
For all those people that complain that the note 3 looks stupid when being used as a phone, the Galaxy Gear is Samsung's answer to that - they've just done a crap job at selling the devices together. They should be bundled rather than sold separately.
2) This is a 1.0 release. Just like with every 1.0 release of a new Apple product, it has it's problems in functionality, battery life and software.
(Everyone bitching should look up: Newton, Pippin, G4 Cube, Apple Lisa, Mac Portable, Powerbook duo, hockey puck mouse, eWorld, 1st gen iPod, 1st Gen iPhone, 1st gen Apple TV, OSX 10.0, FCP X... Every single one of those products was a complete and utter turd. Massively overpriced, poorly designed and/or full of technical problems.)
3) I don't really care who does what first. I'm a consumer and I don't need to pick sides. I can pick and choose devices and technology that suit my needs at the time and I can change as my needs change. If Samsung, Apple and Sony are all competing for my money then great, technology will advance faster as they try to build the best products. This is never, ever a bad thing.
(Everyone bitching should look up: Newton, Pippin, G4 Cube, Apple Lisa, Mac Portable, Powerbook duo, hockey puck mouse, eWorld, 1st gen iPod, 1st Gen iPhone, 1st gen Apple TV, OSX 10.0, FCP X... Every single one of those products was a complete and utter turd. Massively overpriced, poorly designed and/or full of technical problems.)
Apple sold more than 50k any of those...
Make "me first!" copycat crap, that's what you get.
Samsung themselves have now come out and clarified that they shipped 800,000 to retailers and sold 50,000 to consumers. So yes it is a massive flop as of right now.
Supposedly 1/3 of these have been returned.
Every single post in this thread is stupid.
I'm not a fan of this thing either but to those saying that it has to be charged daily: there are people that wind their watches up every day. So charging watch A overnight vs. winding watch B before bed boils down to the same thing...
inb4 "niche market" "people r stoopid y0" etc., etc...
My job takes me out of town frequently and I can assure you that I'd rather wind my watch than plug it in.
Once you start plugging your watch in you run into problems like....
Having to pack multiple chargers or cables....
Limited plug ins at the hotel (I usually have to unplug an arm clock to charge my phone bedside)...
And for me sometimes I'm not at the away from home terminal long enough to warrant going to a hotel room so I don't get tine to charge.
Also and this is an IMPORTANT argument!!! I can't comment on wind up wrist watches (I like the old pocket watches) but you can get two days (barely) out of a wind and some you can get 60 hours out of! And those were made in the 30's!!
smartwatch is not the same as a tablet. It's usefulnes doesn't even come close to tablets.
As already noted, the 50K was just in South Korea. The 800K is how many have been sold worldwide to retailers.
(Samsung counts a sale when an item arrives at the retailer. Apple counts a sale when the item ships to the retailer. )
At least, at Best Buy stores in the USA. (We don't know about any other source yet.)
According to the original article, Samsung wanted to know why Best Buy has an unusually high return rate.
E.g. Are the Samsung salespeople at Best Buy selling them to people without a Note 3? Are they pushing them on people who didn't want one? Is it because the salespeople overclaimed its abilities? Or is it simply because the watch doesn't do what BB customers need/want?
A tablet in 2001 was deemed even less useful than a watch. I don't understand your point.
useless? the first tablets were FAR from useless. They were as usefull as any other PC or notebook at that time. The only problem was that they were too expensive and clumsy. This was the whole reason why they didnt work at that time.A tablet in 2001 was deemed even less useful than a watch. I don't understand your point.
Watch is only usefull for looking at the time. Anything more like that "magical" ability to display phone notifications (oh dear lord thats revolutionairy!) is a total waste of money. It just doesnt bring anything new to the table.
Apple sold more than 50k any of those...
My job takes me out of town frequently and I can assure you that I'd rather wind my watch than plug it in.
Once you start plugging your watch in you run into problems like....
Having to pack multiple chargers or cables....
Limited plug ins at the hotel (I usually have to unplug an arm clock to charge my phone bedside)...
And for me sometimes I'm not at the away from home terminal long enough to warrant going to a hotel room so I don't get tine to charge.
Also and this is an IMPORTANT argument!!! I can't comment on wind up wrist watches (I like the old pocket watches) but you can get two days (barely) out of a wind and some you can get 60 hours out of! And those were made in the 30's!!
Tim Cook on Stage:
"Next up, iWatch"
"We had an amazing launch weekend. We sold over 1 million iWatches in just the first week alone. This is incredible. People love iWatch. We made a video to show how people love our products."
"You know, here at Apple we make the best products. Our competition tried to sell a smart watch, but they only sold 50,000 models in the first months. We sold 20 times that in one week alone. This is amazing."
..........
Tim Cook on Stage:
"Next up, iWatch"
"We had an amazing launch weekend. We sold over 1 million iWatches in just the first week alone. This is incredible. People love iWatch. We made a video to show how people love our products."
"You know, here at Apple we make the best products. Our competition tried to sell a smart watch, but they only sold 50,000 models in the first months. We sold 20 times that in one week alone. This is amazing."
..........
Wait, what? Has somebody completely forgotten about Sony here? I'm pretty sure they qualify as a "major electronics company", and the original LiveView smartwatch--which was an Android sidecar, not unlike this one--was previewed back at the end of 2010, three years ago. Even the LiveView2 shipped before the Samsung.
In fact, given that Samsung originally built their consumer electronics business around copying Sony TVs and such before they got into copying Apple products, you could claim that the Gear is a copy of the Sony watch if you wanted to be mean.
Wearable smart watches will always be a niche market. Most people don't need one, while most people need a phone. Even if Apple comes out with one, it won't be mass accepted.
Samsung doesn't care if it sells 50k units or just one. The purpose of this product is to ensure that they won't be sued anymore if Apple will release an iWatch later, since the court won't likely distinguish between "lame smartwatch" and "great new modern smartwatch like Apple's (or others')". Of course if consumers like it then it's an added bonus. Anyway the poor sales won't hurt them much.