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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Coward.
Yep, no longer restricted to just food.
In our state, it’s definitely restricted ... :-) ... you need to move to a better state, like Oklahoma!
What ... for sitting back and watching your impending train wreck? ... :-) ...
This was the comment by the other poster, and not me ...
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Post #244 ...
Especially if someone catches him teaching their kid how to be “happy”.
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I never relate “GAY” to any of the products I buy, but it seems that a few other posters insist on making the products “gay” or that I support “gay”, which I don’t.
I’m MORE THAN HAPPY (excuse the pun) to leave GAY out of the conversation with the products I buy.
Why don't you throw a few LOLs and smileys at the admins while you're arguing with them? I'm sure they appreciate the "humour" of your "posting style".
There’s no argument with the Admin as far as I’m concerned ... I AGREE with the Admin that it’s a disgusting subject and is not appropriate for this forum!
I hope you agree too! ... :-) ...
It's not appropriate, or it's not appropriate if it's about Tim Cook?
LOL ... are you trying to reinsert the issue that the Admin Moderator said was a disgusting issue?!
I would advise you to follow the Admin’s advice and forget the disgusting subjects ... stick to the products ... :-) ...
It was your response that was inappropriate.
Here is what you responded to:
**Especially if someone catches him teaching their kid how to be “happy”.**
With:
**Well, that could apply to you, too ... but I’ll wait until they catch you ... which shouldn’t be too long ... LOL ...**
If you still don't understand that what you implied was disgusting, inappropriate and a personal attack read it again.
If you post about a product of a company where the top guy is a homosexual, you can expect comments concerning that aberration.
That is not what was said at all.
What was disgusting was your inference that an aniti-homosexual poster would try to get kids to become homosexual.
Do Not continue to twist the words of Admin Mod into a meaning different from what they clearly mean.
The other poster was only pinged because he was the recipient of your accusatory personal attack.
Homosexuality IS an appropriate subject on FR as it is pushed as normal by leftists and the media.
I don’t have that sexual orientation, so my preference is not to discuss it, but I end up in that discussion anyway, when others want to engage in it.
I personally don’t care about what others choose for themselves (in the way of their sexual orientation), and only care what I choose for myself, and I know my sexual orientation is not gay. And then I certainly don’t want anyone telling me that I have to support the gay sexual orientation ... or ... that I “do” support the gay sexual orientation.
Here (on this thread and others), I’m talking about products that I buy and use myself and I’m not about supporting a gay sexual orientation. But, again, some posters are actually talking about ME ... personally ... supporting that sexual orientation, which (again) I don’t.
If I could figure out how to get them off that about “me” and “my products” that I use myself (in terms of sexual orientation or my support for it, as they put it), this conversation would never come up.
There’s the problem that I see coming up over and over again.
At least I didn’t say I hate you ... LOL ...
I take it ... that it’s not appropriate for someone to say that buying a product ... like I do for Apple products ... means that I am of that sexual orientation or that I support that sexual orientation - especially when I make it clear I am not and don’t support it.
That is what I see a lot of here, and I’m talking about in my own case, not anyone else’s.
Oh ... and don’t go saying or thinking that “I’m thinking it!” ... :-) ... I know how sensitive you are.
Texas thought at one time about annexing OK but thought better of it, too many hill billies that gotta take their shoes off to count to 10.
Well, they must be a WHOLE LOT SMARTER than Texas, then, because they beat the heck out of Texas in being smart enough to have EVERY COUNTY in the state go against Obama’s election (even the two major metropolitan areas in the state) ... something Texas was unable to do or not smart enough to do ... LOL ...
Our voters actually know how to read to make their decisions, whether bad or good and OK, well they still do sign language. Besides, y’all only got 50 voters per precinct.
They must have not read good enough since there were quite a few counties that went for Obama in Texas ... :-) ... and none in Oklahoma. I would say the comprehension is a bit higher in Oklahoma ... LOL ...
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