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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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Religion
KEYWORDS: apple; devotional; religion
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To: biff
LOL ... I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with an EBT card at Starbucks ... :-) ...
And I know those EBT-people don’t go to Home Depot.
Those iPhone and iPad (and now Apple Watch) people are sought after not because of Food Stamps, but because of their high incomes. Keep working hard and you’ll get there, into the right monetary category ... :-) ... to be sought after by retailers.
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04/17/2015 8:29:11 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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. They also seem to be inordinately concerned with the movement of small pieces of paper.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:30:01 AM PDT
by
zeugma
( The Clintons Could Find a Loophole in a Stop Sign)
To: Star Traveler
And I know those EBT-people don’t go to Home Depot. Looks like "EBT-people" to me.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:32:45 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: tacticalogic
Well, I’ll guarantee you they’re not using the EBT-card to buy plumbing supplies ... LOL ...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:38:41 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
Well, I’ll guarantee you they’re not using the EBT-card to buy plumbing supplies ... LOL ... Just a minute ago you were guaranteeing they wouldn't be there at all.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:39:26 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: tacticalogic
They probably go to those in your neighborhood, but not mine ... LOL ...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:41:44 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: dayglored
Nah, I'm not easily insulted. You can't insult someone who runs a Windows Ping List, it's just impossible! :) Ha! I could try, but won't.
I'd like to call everybody's attention to the huge difference in the threads here on FR, since dayglored so kindly started the windows pinglist.
If you look at almost any Apple thread, you'll see the insults start before the 10th post.
If you look at the Windows threads, you'll notice the absolute dearth of gratuitous insults.
I've ended up having to killfile several folks on the Apple threads using the FRTrollBlocker greasemonkey script because they are so obnoxious.
BTW dayglored, you're doing a good job with the new list. keep it up. :-)
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:44:03 AM PDT
by
zeugma
( The Clintons Could Find a Loophole in a Stop Sign)
To: Star Traveler
They probably go to those in your neighborhood, but not mine ... LOL ...Sounds like stirring up internecine class warfare. Who'd want to do that?
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:44:12 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: tacticalogic
I would move out of your neighborhood, to get away from those EBT-people, if I were there ... :-) ...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:45:23 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
I would move out of your neighborhood, to get away from those EBT-people, if I were there ... :-) ...If you were in my neighborhood, you wouldn't have to move. We'd move you.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:47:39 AM PDT
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tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: tacticalogic
I would suggest you work on those EBT-people and not the Middle Class ... :-) ...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:51:15 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:54:41 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
To: Star Traveler
I would suggest you work on those EBT-people and not the Middle Class ... :-) ...We don't discriminate. We try to get rid of all the assholes.
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:54:59 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Lazamataz
I’m just a smilin’ type of guy ... :-) ... oooops ...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:55:30 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:55:43 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
To: Star Traveler
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:56:16 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
To: tacticalogic
I can see your only exception to that is yourself ... LOL ...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:56:28 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:56:41 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
To: Lazamataz
Overcome pain through smiling ... :-) ...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:57:02 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Lazamataz
Sometimes a particularly troubled person must supplement smiling, with a shrink ... :-) ...
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posted on
04/17/2015 8:58:05 AM 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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