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Using Slice Intelligence's way too accurate numbers of Apple Watches sold for "estimates", the total revenue for the US is $1,524,049,284.00, which is also way to accurate of "estimates." They could at least have the statistical honesty to round them off. . . and then claim a plus/minue error in their published figures or a degree of confidence, not wait for someone to ask. . . especially when using a set of data amassed from a self-selected universe of purchasers, that may or may not be representative of all Apple customers, or the subset of Apple Watch buyers. They also made the unforgivable sin of making generalities for worldwide sales from that flawed subset of sales data based only on US sales. . . and did it in a new market which they knew nothing about.

MacRumors provides more insight into Slice Intelligence's data on the Apple Watch sales. . . and perhaps shows how the data collection, the data, and its interpretation are flawed. Plus showing sales in the US alone are not flops. . . if their numbers are true. Remember, US sales represent only about 1/3 of the Apple Watch sales during this period. — PING!

Apple Watch US Sales (only) estimates from SLICE through July 10th
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> ...Slice Intelligence's way too accurate numbers of Apple Watches sold for "estimates", the total revenue for the US is $1,524,049,284.00, which is also way too accurate of "estimates." They could at least have the statistical honesty to round them off. . . and then claim a plus/minue error in their published figures or a degree of confidence,...

Hi Sword! Two things I dare to point out:

I think you meant "way too precise", not "way too accurate". As I'm sure you know, precision is when someone tells you that PI is 3.141592653333333... -- very precise, but inaccurate. "Accurate" would be "355/113 plus about 0.0000003". Or when someone tells you the Federal debt is "$17,236,418,220,871.47", very precise but inaccurate. In fact, the Federal debt is 17 bazillion cubic f**k-tons. That's not very precise, but it's accurate.
Slice Intelligence must be a bunch of freakin' bean counters. Bean counters love to say exactly how many beans they counted. It makes them feel important. They can't "round the count off" to make it more realistic. They don't give a crap about reality. They only want a precise count of the beans, period.

Just sayin'.