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from MarketWatch:
Sales are far below expectations only three months after hitting shelves
Sales of the new Apple Watch have plunged by 90% since the opening week, according to a new market-research report.
Apple AAPL, -1.35% has been selling fewer than 20,000 watches a day in the U.S. since the initial surge in April, and on some days fewer than 10,000, according to data from Palo Alto, Calif.-based Slice Intelligence.
That is a sharp decline from the week of the April 10 launch, when Apple sold about 1.5 million watches, or an average of about 200,000 a day, Slice estimates.
Furthermore, two-thirds of the watches sold so far have been the lower-profit Sport version, whose price starts at $349, according to Slice, rather than the costlier and more advanced models that start at $549. ................(more)
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-watch-may-not-be-ticking-with-customers-2015-07-07
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)brooklynite
(94,727 posts)...the body sensors make the health/exercise software work. Question is whether people find that useful.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)I prefer to have an automatic on my wrist anyways . . .
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Dick Tracey still has the model I want.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)and most people to use easily. It was a gadget for 20 somethings, too expensive for teenagers and too low function for everybody else. It was mostly wrist candy to impress one's friends.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)brush
(53,862 posts)With such a small screen size, many people don't want to be bothered with the eye strain or miss-hitting the wrong mini icons.
Good business is to find a niche and fill it. Seems it's been filled for quite a long time with quality watches smart phones that any new app could be added to.
This could be a misstep. Wonder if Jobs would have went ahead with this product?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)all that I need.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)that does all I need in a watch.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)As one of them, most people who wear watches today do so for the look, i would think. I still wear a watch even though my phone always has the right time, and i always have my phone with me. (iPhone, by the way.)
The apple watch is unattractive and gimmicky and one could get a really nice looking Citizen or Seiko for less than the AW costs.
The "everything connected" vision is a bit much for me, as well.
I don't need a watch that's also a homing device.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)in at $50. It's pretty plain if it's supposed to be jewelry.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)If one wants it as jewelry, one can get something way more attractive for equal or lesser money, quite easily, and with a very broad selection. And the iWatch isn't jewelry at all. It's not at all decorative.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)D'oh
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)HFRN
(1,469 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)(if anything) than my phone does, with the added disadvantage of being too small to read all the features easily. For $50 I might buy one, but not for what they are charging.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Go to a Mac store and the watches are chained down or under glass so you can't goof around with them the way you would if you owned one ( maybe )
Apple is showing the growing pains of a company that thinks it is too big to fail .I used to love their computers bur rhen they became a mega douche company .
onehandle
(51,122 posts)The tables next to the display case contain dozens of Apple Watches. You just have to ask.
If you actually went into a store, which somehow I doubt, if they see you looking into the case, they will offer you a demo.
Additionally, there are display models on stands along the walls that you can play with.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)I think if you know the answer to that, you will know whether or not this type makes sense.
I love wristwatches, hell, I am perverted actually, I buy magazines to look at pictures of them
Told you I was perverted.
And I own a very nice watch, a few actually, and while I love looking at it or them from an aesthetic viewpoint, I RARELY look at it or them for the time.
Dont have to, everything has the time, my phone, my car, my laptop, etc.
So, I ask again, will wristwatches of any style, analog or digital, mechanical or quartz, exist in 30 yrs to any extent?
If I knew I would invest accordingly
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)Yes but only to a small but rabid and affluent collector clique driven by rarity, collection completism and, in current new models, either originality or cloning of past landmark models.
How can I be so sure? That's where my foible of fountain pens are today, and the analogy is nigh exact. A more elegant and artisanal past version of something done far more effectively in a utillitarian sense by cheaper and/or more capable substitutes now.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)run on springs, levers, gears appeal to people.
The quartz watch didn't get rid of the automatic/mechanical ones.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)I usually have either my phone on me or an Ipod. Who needs a watch?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Most companies would have to have that 'problem.'
Additionally, every gadget out there sells 10x normal at launch. A 90% drop (if true, the article admits they don't know) would be about normal for most electronics companies.
MarketWatch loves posting empty link bait. Apple haters eat it up.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)How will they stay in business!?
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)They have succeeded in making the best interpretation of an idea.
Apple without Jobs hasn't yet made the absolute best interpretation of an idea (the smart watch), but I still think that it has potential.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I guess it would depend on a lot of things.
It supports a lot of the apps I use and is very useful for calendar reminders, etc. The fitness stuff is also something I wanted and almost spent money on another device for before the Apple Watch came out.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)And looking at other brands that do the same thing, the pricing is pretty competitive.
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)Buy one now and in 10 years, sell it for a $2,000 profit. Meanwhile, Apple fanboys will have bought 5 Iwatches that cost them $2,000 over that same period.
JustAnotherGen
(31,880 posts)I'm a Caravelle woman.
And I work in the Wireless Industry - launched 57 devices from January 2006 to December 2007. Now I've morphed into a special niche in finance but . . .
I just walked up and down the aisles of our pod in the mother ship and well -
Only one person wasn't wearing a watch - she had a fitbit on.
TlalocW
(15,391 posts)And I'm never going back!!!
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