Apple Watch Remains Best-Selling Wearable With 4.7 Million Shipments Last Quarter (theverge.com) 62
According to research firm IDC, Apple sold 4.7 million Apple Watch units last quarter, capturing 17 percent of the global market. The only other company close on Apple's heels is Xiaomi, which "trailed Apple by two percentage points in market share and 500,000 unit shipments in the second quarter of the year," reports The Verge. From the report: Fitbit, Huawei, and Garmin are far behind, with IDC reporting that higher demand for more fully featured smartwatches is driving demand for Apple products and reducing the popularity of lower-cost fitness trackers. IDC stresses that this is a natural cycle for consumer electronics and that fitness-focused devices will still have a place in the market going forward. IDC says demand for its LTE-equipped Series 3 device largely drove Apple's wearable sales last quarter, and the device received a number of discounts at big-box retail stores that may have led to a surge in consumer purchases. Refurbished versions of the Apple Watch Series 3 also went up for sale on Apple's retail site starting in February.
Say wut (Score:1)
Apple with 17% of market share is 4.7 million units
Xiaomi with 15% of market share is 500,000 units
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It's IDC.
Meanwhile (Score:1)
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And my typewriter is better at writing letters than a PC. Whatâ(TM)s your point?
I have no doubt your typewriter is better at typing that whatever you are using.
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Ya with the special extended jobs character set.
It's called Unicode, it's a standard and supported by all websites that matter.
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#AllCharactersMatter
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My $15 Timex still works better for telling the time
A smart watch does not just tell time (although it does that well). It receives texts, makes phone calls, takes photos, and runs apps. If you are comparing it to a $15 Timex, then you are completely missing the point.
The early Apple Watch was sort of pointless since it didn't do the phone calls or texts without an iPhone within BlueTooth range. But that gaping hole has been fixed, and the latest Apple Watch is a tiny standalone smart phone.
My wife has an Apple Phone and she is very happy with it.
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Do not want. Got a Suunto. Nice looking. Battery last 2 weeks easy.
But it can't make or receive phone calls or texts.
Dick Tracy wouldn't be caught dead wearing one.
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Why should we care what that guy thinks? He's a dick.
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My $15 Timex still works better for telling the time
A smart watch does not just tell time (although it does that well). It receives texts, makes phone calls, takes photos, and runs apps. If you are comparing it to a $15 Timex, then you are completely missing the point.
The early Apple Watch was sort of pointless since it didn't do the phone calls or texts without an iPhone within BlueTooth range. But that gaping hole has been fixed, and the latest Apple Watch is a tiny standalone smart phone.
My wife has an Apple Phone and she is very happy with it.
Yes but I do not want all of that attached to my wrist any more than I want to use Google Glass. If I want to use my phone--guess what--I pull out my phone. When I do not want to use my phone, it stays put away.
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A smart watch does not just tell time (although it does that well).
Oh, and: only compared to no watch at all.
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If I want to use my phone--guess what--I pull out my phone.
But then you still need to carry your phone with you everywhere you go.
That may be ok for you, but there are people out there that don't automatically think that something big and clunky is obviously better than something small and light that can do the same thing.
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Speaking literally, wouldn't the Apple Watch be better for telling the time since it can actually speak... :-)
To me an Apple Watch is just as much an advancement as moving from a flip phone to a smart phone. And each iteration gets notably better - this year I plan to move from the first Apple Watch (the haughtily named "series 0") to whatever update they put out - not because it's not working, but because I would like a cell watch now that a second model is arriving to refine that.
That's great that all yo
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When smartphones came along, we put up with the worse recharge times because the benefits were clear to us. But as a watch wearer, I’m hard-pressed to come up with a benefit of the current smart watches that would justify its cost or the need to recharge it on a nightly basis.
My current dumb watch (Timex? Casio? I couldn’t even tell you) cost me $40, has lasted for years on its original battery, syncs with the atomic clock every night so that I never need to worry about it’s accuracy, stay
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So you went from a digital watch, which is a pretty neat idea, to a mechanical watch?
Isn't that like a downgrade?
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So you went from a digital watch, which is a pretty neat idea, to a mechanical watch? Isn't that like a downgrade?
From a strict technological standpoint: yes. But having a small mechanical machine on your wrist that harvests energy from your movements to keep time is just so much more fun than something electronic. And I still consider it a better timepiece than a smart watch because the time is always visible.
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So you went from a digital watch, which is a pretty neat idea, to a mechanical watch? Isn't that like a downgrade?
From a strict technological standpoint: yes. But having a small mechanical machine on your wrist that harvests energy from your movements to keep time is just so much more fun than something electronic. And I still consider it a better timepiece than a smart watch because the time is always visible.
Yeah - and you don't really need the exact time. Ever. Because when you have a mechanical watch, the whole world will wait for you because you are so special.
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Coca-Cola Remains Best-Selling Soft Drink With 180 Billion Beverages Last Quarter
This isn't news. Pretending otherwise insults us both.
Even shills are more discrete. This is tour-guide bullshit.
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Coca-Cola Remains Best-Selling Soft Drink With 180 Billion Beverages Last Quarter
This isn't news. Pretending otherwise insults us both.
Well, when the usual headline was "Coca-Cola is a complete failure", then yes, it would be news. Pretending otherwise only insults yourself.
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Coca-Cola Remains Best-Selling Soft Drink With 180 Billion Beverages Last Quarter
This isn't news. Pretending otherwise insults us both.
Even shills are more discrete. This is tour-guide bullshit.
No, maybe not, but it is still fun to rub this in the faces of people who predicted the Apple Watch would be a complete and utter flop and get reactions like the one you just gave.
Re: A drop in the buckef (Score:2)
Damn, someone needs to chill the fuck out!
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The real news (Score:2)
The real news is, Xiaomi came out of nowhere and pulled up within 2% of Apple. Looks like Apple will be knocked out of first place pretty soon. And keep an eye on Huawei too, grew 118% YoY to 6.5%
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Take a bow, you did it!
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There's a huge difference between predicting "Apple is dying/dead" and stating that Apple will likely be surpassed in the near future in a single market segment.
Apple makes high end equipment, the fact that Xiaomi is now moving into the medium to low-end market and will be outselling Apple in terms of devices sold does not require any kind of prescience since that is a market segment that Apple has historically not bothered with. This revelation that Xiaomi is hoovering up the low end of the market is more of a *yawn* than anything else.
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And Apple, which once owned 100% of the smart watch category, now has a mere 17% of the segment and looks likely to shrink further.
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And Apple, which once owned 100% of the smart watch category, now has a mere 17% of the segment and looks likely to shrink further.
And again you prove to be a complete and utter idiot, who can't even remember babbling endlessly about how the Apple Watch came out over a year after the Samsung Galaxy Gear, which was much better anyway. A truly tragic and hilariously funny case of brain damage on your side. And the size of your brain is the only thing shrinking.
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Apple cultists are so special
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Apple cultists are so special
Dumb people doubling down on their stupidity are so "special". Do go on, even the other Apple Haters are laughing their heads off over your stupidity.
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Apple's share of the smart watch market fell precipitously from 70% a few years go to 17% today, and still falling fast.
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Apple's share of the smart watch market fell precipitously from 70% a few years go to 17% today, and still falling fast.
But Apple's sales are up in a market that Apple created. Oh, and that market includes $20 fitness bands from China. Like the ones that boost Xiaaomi's market share. Still aren't feeling dumb? That's because you are sooooo dumb.
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the Apple Watch has been losing market share. Rivals such as Fitbit and Garmin have mounted successful comebacks causing a dip in Apple’s share from 43% to 34% [gadgetsandwearables.com]
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The real news is, Xiaomi came out of nowhere and pulled up within 2% of Apple.
They come out of China, and have been selling Smartwatches for years. Which comes to the surprise only of a complete idiot.
Best-selling wearable? (Score:3)
I bet Depends sells more than this.