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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 successfu

• 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.