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Apple Watch Sales Have Plummeted

10 points by JohnTHaller 11y ago

JohnTHaller 11y ago
Sales are down to as little as 4,000 a day. They are very good compared to the lowkey Android Watch segment but, with the marketing done for the Apple Watch, they're lower than many expected. The Apple Watch launch appears not to have affected FitBit sales, with FitBit now outselling Apple Watch again. http://intelligence.slice.com/tracking-the-fitness-of-fitness-trackers-fitbit-is-in-a-class-by-itself/ http://intelligence.slice.com/tracking-the-fitness-of-fitnes...
- gluxon 11y ago
  I'm curious to see what these charts will look like when watchOS 2 is released, or if it'll even make a difference. P.S. Good to see you here John.
  - JohnTHaller 11y ago
    It might change things a bit once the watch itself can actually run 3rd party apps. I think it would help sales a lot for Apple to allow the types of face customizations that Android Wear does and to make a ton of commercial faces available from major brands. Google is now starting to do that with Wear. PS - Good to see you, too. I've been kicking around HN for a while.
applecore 11y ago
Isn't it a bit early for sales to have “plummeted”? The iPod barely sold at all for its first several years and iterations, and it was one of the most successful products of all time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales
- JohnTHaller 11y ago
  I think, now that Apple is this dominant cash-flush company that spends a ton on advertising, everyone was expecting an iPad-style sales curve (it went up and up until it started falling off last year) instead of a large pre-order/launch day event and then sales tapering off to not much. There's also the fact that, at least in the immediate future, the smartwatch category isn't poised to take off like smartphones did. Smartwatches are still kind of interesting but not as big a game-changer as smartphones were. Smartphones were the first time you could do these things on the go all the time. Smartwatches, so far, just help you take your smartphone out of your pocket less often. This can easily change, of course. And I say that as someone with an LG G watch that's planning on messing around with development.

10 points by JohnTHaller 11y ago

Sales are down to as little as 4,000 a day. They are very good compared to the lowkey Android Watch segment but, with the marketing done for the Apple Watch, they're lower than many expected. The Apple Watch launch appears not to have affected FitBit sales, with FitBit now outselling Apple Watch again. http://intelligence.slice.com/tracking-the-fitness-of-fitness-trackers-fitbit-is-in-a-class-by-itself/ http://intelligence.slice.com/tracking-the-fitness-of-fitnes...

gluxon 11y ago
I'm curious to see what these charts will look like when watchOS 2 is released, or if it'll even make a difference. P.S. Good to see you here John.
- JohnTHaller 11y ago
  It might change things a bit once the watch itself can actually run 3rd party apps. I think it would help sales a lot for Apple to allow the types of face customizations that Android Wear does and to make a ton of commercial faces available from major brands. Google is now starting to do that with Wear. PS - Good to see you, too. I've been kicking around HN for a while.

applecore 11y ago

Isn't it a bit early for sales to have “plummeted”? The iPod barely sold at all for its first several years and iterations, and it was one of the most successful products of all time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales

JohnTHaller 11y ago
I think, now that Apple is this dominant cash-flush company that spends a ton on advertising, everyone was expecting an iPad-style sales curve (it went up and up until it started falling off last year) instead of a large pre-order/launch day event and then sales tapering off to not much. There's also the fact that, at least in the immediate future, the smartwatch category isn't poised to take off like smartphones did. Smartwatches are still kind of interesting but not as big a game-changer as smartphones were. Smartphones were the first time you could do these things on the go all the time. Smartwatches, so far, just help you take your smartphone out of your pocket less often. This can easily change, of course. And I say that as someone with an LG G watch that's planning on messing around with development.