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The Apple Watch is Already Wiping the Floor with the Entire Smartwatch Market
Business Insider ^ | Thursday, April 16, 2015 | Rob Price

Posted on 04/16/2015 5:29:23 PM PDT by Star Traveler

The Apple Watch is on fire: KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo estimates that Apple's debut smartwatch has sold more than 2.3 million units since preorders opened, MacRumors reports.

Apple hasn't released any sales data on Apple Watch sales, and it most likely won't until the company's quarterly earnings report. But this 2.3 million figure echoes what others have estimated — the research company Slice believes there were about 1 million US preorders on launch day, for example.

Ming-Chi Kuo has a good track record on Apple: He was spot on with his predictions about the iPhone 5S, for example. If Kuo's figures are correct, Apple has — in a stroke — cornered the entire smartwatch market.

The Apple Watch's strong sales are bad news for Google and its Android Wear smartwatch operating system OS. According to Canalys, devices using Android Wear sold 720,000 units in 2014. Slice's figures suggested Apple was able to easily breeze past this figure in a single day. In doing so, Apple took away Google's one historical advantage, which Business Insider explained in a previous story:

The iPhone has always — with some truth — been considered the "rich man's phone." Apple customers tend to be better off than Android users and spend more on apps and in-app purchases. Accordingly, ad rates on iOS, Apple's operating system, are higher than on Google's OS.

This strong push is immediately going to make Apple's Watch OS an extremely attractive platform for developers looking to move into wearables, especially when coupled with the purchasing power of Apple consumers. And as this app ecosystem develops, it will make the Apple Watch even more attractive compared with other smartwatches, consolidating Apple's position further still.

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To: Star Traveler

Why not wait the 18 months for the better, greatly improved one then?
Do you really really really need one now?

My guess is YES


121 posted on 04/16/2015 8:29:14 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: mowowie

You must not be a fan of The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy. My last post was a quote from the book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy


122 posted on 04/16/2015 8:29:39 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: glasseye

Just like the iPhone was for an extremely limited audience, right?
I tried out an Apple Watch. The market for watches just got completely redefined, just like phones did.


123 posted on 04/16/2015 8:30:10 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Star Traveler

I used the Infinite Improbability Drive. ;)


124 posted on 04/16/2015 8:30:32 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

Didn’t care for the goofy humor.


125 posted on 04/16/2015 8:33:11 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: Redcitizen
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

Er, 93 million miles...but what's five million miles between friends? :-)

Digital watches are so yesterday, but wearable computers are just coming into their own. Personally I'm more excited about augmented reality glasses like those from Magic Leap. That said, the Apple Watch has a lot of potential, particularly in the health/fitness area.

126 posted on 04/16/2015 8:34:13 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: mowowie

Actually, I rotate through my iOS devices and usually jump one or two models between devices (and computers). The Apple products do have a long life, so I can easily do that. And so ... I’ve already got plans for another device first before I go for the Apple Watch, to keep my planned rotation going ... :-) ...

So, no ... I’m not going to go crazy not having one immediately. With the iPhone, though, I could tell that was dynamite and I got one on “Day Three” of sales. The Tulsa Apple Store was brand new at that time and first opened at Woodland Hills Mall at the exact time that the new iPhone went on sale (late afternoon). I went there with the intention of getting one. The line was long and I didn’t want to wait. Instead, I drove down to Dallas and got one there on Day Three ... :-) ...

I was going there anyway, and there was no line to contend with. So, you see, I was able to wait THREE DAYS ... for the iPhone! ... LOL ...

With the Apple Watch, I’ll wait until version two, because of other Apple items I’m getting first.


127 posted on 04/16/2015 8:43:38 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: mowowie

Reminds me of Scientology...


128 posted on 04/16/2015 8:43:47 PM PDT by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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To: Star Traveler; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; ...
Pre-orders of Apple Watches have already blown away all sales of other smart watches before ever shipping. — PING!


Apple Watch Pre-Sales out perform all previous sales of smartwatches Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

129 posted on 04/16/2015 8:45:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Neidermeyer

I’m not a scientologist, but I’ve looked at it from the standpoint of my CULT GROUP studies, as compared to Christianity.

And I’ll assure you, my iPad bears no resemblance to Scientology, as far as its usefulness to me and all that I do with it. The same applies to my iPhone.

If Scientology was actually USEFUL in a real-world and practical sense, like the iPad and iPhone are, then you would see a lot more involvement, with the general public, in Scientology. It’s not, so there is no comparison with Apple products and what people are able to do, very productively, with Apple products!


130 posted on 04/16/2015 8:48:53 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler

There was a smartwatch market? Who knew?


131 posted on 04/16/2015 8:49:09 PM PDT by generally
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To: generally

Amazing, isn’t it! Apple sure knows how to take a nascent and faltering market that no one has paid any attention to ... and MAKE IT EXPLODE with sales ... :-) ...


132 posted on 04/16/2015 8:52:23 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

You got that right. Look at the Rap Music industry, still booming, and creating billionaires. I’ve waited over 30 years for it to go away.


133 posted on 04/16/2015 8:53:43 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: ctdonath2
The market for watches just got completely redefined, just like phones did.

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No , the market for watches is unchanged. The market for the functional equivalent of a bluetooth remote control for your iPhone has emerged... IT's NOT A WATCH AT ALL , IT's AN ACCESSORY FOR THE iPhone ... NOTHING MORE My prediction is that this non-watch will never perform it's stated function , being a watch , with any success... Face it ... My Seiko tells time perfectly and uses a single $0.99 battery every 5 years or so. The iWatch fails with a dead battery every stinking day. How is that an advancement? It's display is too small to make use of ANY application that you may be able to execute... unless you make the "watch" "phone" sized that will always be the case... This is a FAIL , Apple has jumped the shark with their foray into the jewelry business. I can get a Rolex priced gold band... Can I get it bedazzled? Will it ever be able to tell the time better and with less fuss than your typical $5 Chinese watch from Walmart?

134 posted on 04/16/2015 9:00:40 PM PDT by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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To: Star Traveler

And all the buyers voted for Bammy too. Oh yeah, they used their EBT cards to buy them.


135 posted on 04/16/2015 9:01:21 PM PDT by biff (Et Tu Boeh-ner)
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To: Swordmaker

The true believer Fanboies have been called into the fray.


136 posted on 04/16/2015 9:03:12 PM PDT by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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To: biff

LOL ... you haven’t looked at the demographics for the Apple consumer. The EBT people can only get the junk Samsung or other Android phones that they give away at these roadside tents that say “Free Phones”.

You see a lot of junk Samsung or Android phones there for those EBT people, but you NEVER see them giving ANYONE an iPhone!

Go out there and check it out yourself ... :-) ...


137 posted on 04/16/2015 9:06:51 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
They haven’t been “delivered” yet. The MONEY has been paid and has been taken out of their credit cards. The money is all in Apple’s hands right now!

No, I have to disagree with your description of Apple's transaction methods. Apple will not charge anyone's cards until the purchase is shipped. They are a company that does think differently. They will not take your money until they are actually going to deliver the product.

138 posted on 04/16/2015 9:08:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Neidermeyer; Swordmaker

Don’t forget the 700 other FReepers who are on the Apple ping list ... :-) ...


139 posted on 04/16/2015 9:09:06 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler; Neidermeyer
You might be able to, but Swordmaker has the details on that. I’ve pinged him. He has the exact details on that. I do know it can get rained on or used in the shower. I don’t know about swimming, though. He’ll get back to you ... :-) ...

No, you cannot go swimming or take a bath wearing the Apple Watch, but you can wash your hands, and Apple Watch users, including Tim Cook, say they have taken showers with one on. It is water resistant to a certain degree but not for immersion. There is a data port underneath one side of the band slot that is not sealed.

140 posted on 04/16/2015 9:15:52 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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