15 April 2015

Apple Watch outsells Androids


Fortune has an article by Benjamin Snyder about the Apple Watch:
Apple sold more Apple Watches on the device’s first day of preorder sales than its rival companies sold Android-based smartwatches throughout all of 2014, according to market research data by research firm Slice Intelligence, which estimates Apple sold nearly a million Apple Watches just on Friday, 10 April 2015. In comparison, about 720,000 smartwatches powered by Google’s Android Wear platform were sold in 2014, according to analysis firm Canalys. Apple has not yet given any official sales figures on the Apple Watch.
Several manufacturers make Android Wear smartwatches, including Motorola, LG, and Samsung. While this initial data might look bad for them on the surface, there’s a chance that any success Apple has in the smartwatch category could act as a rising ride lifting all boats. Apple has a long track record of entering embryonic new categories and taking them mainstream, as it did with the iPhone and the iPad.
While preorders have already begun, the Apple Watch doesn’t go on sale until 24 April 2015. Whether Apple can sustain interest in the device beyond first-weekend presales, a period dominated by early adopters who likely already knew they wanted the device, remains to be seen.
In January of 2015, Apple reported record earnings of $3.06 a share on seventy-five billion dollars in revenue.
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