Flash in the pan - but you gotta love Capitalism. Works every time they can dupe said limited audience. Case in point...
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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Apple has enough of a cult following that they could be led by a flaming, bullying, Christ-hating sodomite and they would sell a hundred million units.
Wait a minute...
Flash in the pan - but you gotta love Capitalism. Works every time they can dupe said limited audience. Case in point...
So much stupid to go around.
Two words: Tim Cook.
I’m usually typing, ‘Terri Schaivo.’ ;)
TWENTY MILLION for first year sales (projected by some, and already over TWO MILLION in less than a week) is a “niche” that all the other manufacturers would KILL FOR! ... :-) ...
AND ... so much money to be made, and people employed in our capitalistic free market system. Hooray for business and making money!
That is true. Our Father hates false idols. And yet how do they act?
Along with the flash in the pan “iPod” and the flash in the pan “iPhone” and now the flash in the pan “Apple Watch” ... :-) ...
AND ... that’s not saying anything about the “flash in the pan company” ... APPLE (which some have said for the last thirty years) ... :-) ...
Yep. They are taking advantage of the stupid. A fool and his money are soon parted the saying goes.
Good on them.
Well ... if Apple starts selling Tim Cook dolls, I’m not buying ... LOL ...
it’s a tiny screen on my wrist. and?
why would i care? what data would i want to view on such a small screen, besides those functions found in a $10 casio watch??
Thirty years is nothing compared to enternity. Pick your grave.
Well, that would mean that there are over 60 millions fools in the USA. To put that in perspective, in the last presidential election there was almost 61 million voting for the GOP ... :-) ...
Companies don’t have to be concerned about eternity ... :-) ... that’s not their “reason to be”.
In our capitalistic free market system, which we tout to the world as the best system (as compared to others in operation around the globe) ... the reason to be is to MAKE MONEY!
Does that mean that I finally will be able to tell the time of day by merely glancing at my wrist? I have to have one of those.
You might not, but there’s enough others that do ... for a company to make a PILE OF MONEY ... which is what companies are about!
Are you Catolic? That faith seems to put a lot of stock in numbers.
As I’ve said many times before ... one doesn’t understand the Apple Watch UNTIL they come to the realization that it is not a watch ... :-) ...
See if you can figure that one out from my Freeper page ... ;-) ...
If you can’t let me know and I’ll tell you.
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