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

Mr. Retrofire said:
Face the truth:
Smart Watches are neither useful nor necessary. The world population can live without them.
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Same could be said for Smartphones as well as numerous other pieces of tech.
We survived a long time without them. They are wants not needs.
 
Kind of reminds me of people who call "First" in the first post of a new forum thread. They contribute nothing and only do it say they are first.
 
iapplelove said:
Did samsung fail or does the market not give a care about smart watches?
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I think the market doesn't care about smart watches made by Samsung

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osx11 said:
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."

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Nailed it. Do you write his speeches? :D
 
Smartass said:
If the demand for these "smart"watches was really that high, people would buy these no matter what, but nobody did so final conclusion

nobody wants a smart watch.
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Nobody wanted a tablet either. Tablets lingered for 10 years until Apple came out with theirs and now everyone wants one.
 
I hope Apple proves me wrong but WTF a watch? Really? Information on a wrist seems so 1990s. It's a better place for jewelry, or a Rolex, not LAN access.:eek:
 
So why not wait for it to be "ripe" before selling it? Did they even turn a profit?

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portishead said:
That's not bad. I doubt Apple sells more than 100K. It's a tough market after the Pebble.
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Apple doesn't sell watches unless you count the previous-generation iPod nano. And I think they should have kept it as a watch and low-end iPod instead of turning it into a cheapo iPod touch.
 
osx11 said:
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."

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Are you the teleprompter guy?
 
wxman2003 said:
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.
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Same with the iPod nano. I say replace the nano with a watch.
 
Nothing beats a fine made Swiss watch...... Samsung's smart watch is pretty cool never the less.
 
Can't wait for this to catch on. I'm eager to click on threads about people complaining the screen is too small, then wanting a full sized forearm "watch" ala Predator. :cool:
 
o0smoothies0o said:
The problem I see is that hardly anyone understands what Apple is going to be doing here, or they are so close-minded that they don't understand the real potential, and numerous applications for this.

First of all you don't think of it as a watch. That's the number one close-minded thought I see everyone make. This will be a wearable device, and telling you the current time will be of as little meaning in the overall picture as it is on the iPhone. They aren't making a watch. They are making a wearable device, and what Samsung, and apparently nearly everyone else doesn't understand is that a wearable device offers you one majorly important thing: it is almost constantly attached to your body. Biometrics are the #1 reason to make a wearable product. Everything else is merely there because it would obviously be included, like a calculator on your iPhone. If this product Apple is making can accurately measure vital biometrics (non-invasively of course), it could be extremely important, and be bought by millions.

It could save the lives of diabetics (if it accurately measured blood glucose, warning the wearer when they are getting dangerously low so as to avoid fainting, etc.), it could save the lives of anyone (if it accurately measured heart rate), being that it is constantly monitoring, and could instantly send alerts to family members/emergency services when wearer goes into cardiac arrest. Things like these are going to be the future, and they will transform people's lives much like past inventions have, and they will save lives too. I'm not saying this will be soon, but it will come about.

The reason to make this is biometrics. Granted getting alerts and seeing the time on your wrist would be a useful thing to have, it is no where near worth making a product for, so those of you who find the thought of devices like the Galaxy Gear useless, you are right, those few features aren't worth having the product. Will Apple's do alerts/messages etc.? Of course it will, but that isn't why the product exists. Luckily Apple has open-minded, inventive people working for them.
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Ding ding someone that gets it... And yep the key is biometrics and the m7 that's in the current iPhone as a test for the watch

This has nothing to do with time or an iPhone accessory on your wrist.

Just like years ago people thought of the iPhone and now people cannot be without one.

These wears led will turn into things years from now that we go " damn how did I live without that" and will do wonders for overall health monitoring/lifestyle changes.
 
I don't think this is Samsung's fault. Nine out of 10 people just don't wear crap on their wrist anymore. That's all we need, something else to charge every morning.

Apple's iWatch will share the same fate.
 
I've been trying to tell everyone that wearable devices are not there yet.

The only way this gets even into a legit market opportunity is after Apple has taken the hurdle into your living room with products/services, and some of the brick n' mortar stores gaining an ecosystem for the Touch ID. Also, when the new gps chips just need GPS and not A-GPS there may be an opportunity.

Then, the feature set of the wearable device will help you through your own house, with your own wifi hooked up to your nest thermo, CO2 reader, garage door, lights, etc, etc.... voila. You will feel the need or want to purchase after another measure is in place.

Then, a wearable device will be a legit want from the consumer. Just like a tv remote from its debut. At the same time, this want creates luxury initially, so it will be a luxury product, and presented as 'cool' or game changing.

Then, voila... it will be a need. Because Apple has pimped out a TV and done things no other company ever could within your house, and this thing around your wrist can do all you need it to do for your house.

Other than that. Wearable devices will be just fanboy jazz, and no utility(or not much I should say)... and nonetheless, not that cool... not cool at all.

Apple needs to make a TV... then do other things in the house alongside with releasing a wearable device that every damn nanny or parent wants.
 
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It's always in my mind that Apple spoofed fake rumors out that they are making an iWatch. They do this because they know Samdung will be stupid enough to copy the idea but try to be quicker to the market. And Samdung will come out with wasted development dollars along with tarnished image.

Maybe Apple might know something that I don't know. But I just fail to see what real life application there is for a smart watch, aside from health and fitness type settings.
 
Krazy Bill said:
I don't think this is Samsung's fault. Nine out of 10 people just don't wear crap on their wrist anymore. That's all we need, something else to charge every morning.

Apple's iWatch will share the same fate.
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It won't because Apple won't release a new product in a new category if they're not highly confident it will sell in large quantities. That's probably why we don't have a wearable device or TV from them yet.
 
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