You must be a liberal moonbat. Attack the messenger. Typical alinsky tactic.
Ummm ... you’re the moonbat here ... up-yours ... :-) ...
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The Apple Watch is Already Wiping the Floor with the Entire Smartwatch Market
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3280021/posts
he 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 a winner! In just ONE WEEKEND Apple sold more units than ALL OTHER manufacturers combined — for the entire year, in 2014!
And NOW ... Apple has doubled their first weekend’s sales!
Sometimes the messenger is the source. . . and needs to be attacked. In this instance, the message is coming from Beta News, it is their columnist's opinion piece based on a load of misrepresentations and mis-information they are publishing with little to no fact-checking. Read the comments where their own readers are excoriating the author for misrepresenting the facts. LOL!