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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Pure filth.
BFD. Other than the oppurtunity to become an obnoxious iHole, give me three good reasons to buy an iWatch (or any other smart watch). In other words, I would like to know how the iWatch is going to change my life (other than making me an obnoxious iHole).
quote “why would i want a watch that is helpless without a phone in my pocket? why wouldn’t i just use the phone?”
dont talk sense ! we must unthinkingly support the sodomite CEO of Apple !
Well ... I think you got on the wrong forum then ... because Free Republic is about the capitalistic free market system and making money. And then ... what you do with the money you make is your business ... or at least that’s what the vast majority here is for!
You must have missed all that! ... :-) ...
I don’t support sinners of any kind, which is why I tell everyone I know about the Saving Gospel of Jesus, the Messiah of Israel. So far, with everyone I’ve met ... I haven’t come across ANYONE who isn’t CONDEMNED TO DEATH because of their sins.
BUT ... the good news is that even though you are buying products and services from EVERYONE who is a sinner and condemned to death ... you can still be SAVED, through Jesus the Messiah of Israel!
I’m not trying to get you to buy an Apple Watch ... which is the reason I didn’t ping you to this thread ... LOL ...
It could be that you got on the wrong forum. God hates homos and those that support them.
Yep, great success, considering the fact that most of their products are technologically subpar.
Of all the potential new Apple products, the Apple iDogShit completely escaped me. Color me embarrassed as I color in my recently to be released Apple iColoringBook. Is there any end to the plethora of new Apple products ? The Apple iKittyLiter, the Apple iBookMarks, the Apple iFruitbegoneinlieuvegetables ?
Actually God hates sin so much he CONDEMNED YOU TO DEATH for your sin ... in case you didn’t realize that. And that goes for everyone else’s sin.
HOWEVER ... even though YOU ARE A SINNER who has been condemned to death ... I would still buy a computer from you, if it was one I wanted, and a car (again, if I wanted that one), or buy gas from you at a gas station, or food from you at a grocery store, or clothes from you at a department store.
NOW ... if I didn’t have that attitude about SINNERS LIKE YOU ... I would starve to death, and/or be walking and not driving, and be naked without any clothes ... because I would be unable to find ANYONE who was not a SINNER ... LOL ...
So you say ... but ... not all the customers who make Apple WILDLY SUCCESSFUL ... :-) ...
Pay attention people, this is the message of the antiChrist that is coming. You can't whorship Satan and think Christ is going to save you. Mocked I will be.
No one wears watches anymore. They are so 1990’s.
Buying products from SINNERS LIKE YOU is not worshipping Satan ... :-) ...
Well, if Apple Watch were a watch ... you might have a point ... :-) ...
They’re not all iThings. There was the XServer, but they don’t talk about that.
The stock isn’t moving.
Personally, I wouldn't take your money. Keep talking.
How would you know? ... :-) ...
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