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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And NOW ... Apple has doubled their first weekend's sales!
WOW! Apple has gone BONKERS with units sold for the Apple Watch!
Apparently they’ve cornered the market on exclamation points as well.
Nah, clearly this can’t possibly be true!
Someone on FreeRepublic stated that no one wears watches anymore!
And Hillary is the greatest too.
With the kind of capabilities it has ... it’s actually going to make me go back to wearing something on my wrist again ... :-) ...
Apple has enough of a cult following that they could produce rubber dogsh*t and sell a million units. People aren’t that logical.
If she wants one, she can get it, too ... :-) ...
People are stupid. You can make money on that!
You’ve got the cart before the horse ... on that one. It’s not the “name” that sells the products ... but rather ... the excellent products (along with customer service and customer satisfaction) that “make the name” ... :-) ...
Apple is the great American success story in our capitalistic and free market system ... in the Apple has 93% of the profits for the ENTIRE smartphone market (all manufacturers combined) ... and now we see that in just ONE WEEKEND they blew past ALL other manufacturers of smart watches for the entire year last year!
Must be a lot of people embracing the left wing fascism of Tim Cook. Does it have an app for ratting out Christians who oppose homofascism?
except for weddings and dinners out w/ my lady, i haven’t worn a watch in over 10 years.
why would i want a watch that is helpless without a phone in my pocket? why wouldn’t i just use the phone?
People buy iPads, iPhones, iPods, iMacs, Apple Watches ... and not a person’s sexual orientation ... LOL ...
It is niche product.
The apple fan-bois will fawn over it and there is money to be made.
Not a choice I would make for myself, but for some folks, yes.
Extremely limited audience on this one.
I’ve got a couple of watches right now that are laying around ... still keeping good time and I haven’t had a watch on in a long while either. BUT ... the Apple Watch is going to get me to change my mind on that ... :-) ...
AND ... what a lot of people don’t realize is that an Apple Watch is not a watch! ... :-) ...
Not right away. Even the LA School District wised up eventually.
I didn’t think you did ... which was the reason I didn’t ping you to this thread ... LOL ...
I am holding out for the Barnum Special Edition.
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