Posted on 04/16/2015 5:29:23 PM PDT by Star Traveler
The Apple Watch is on fire: KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo estimates that Apple's debut smartwatch has sold more than 2.3 million units since preorders opened, MacRumors reports.
Apple hasn't released any sales data on Apple Watch sales, and it most likely won't until the company's quarterly earnings report. But this 2.3 million figure echoes what others have estimated — the research company Slice believes there were about 1 million US preorders on launch day, for example.
Ming-Chi Kuo has a good track record on Apple: He was spot on with his predictions about the iPhone 5S, for example. If Kuo's figures are correct, Apple has — in a stroke — cornered the entire smartwatch market.
The Apple Watch's strong sales are bad news for Google and its Android Wear smartwatch operating system OS. According to Canalys, devices using Android Wear sold 720,000 units in 2014. Slice's figures suggested Apple was able to easily breeze past this figure in a single day. In doing so, Apple took away Google's one historical advantage, which Business Insider explained in a previous story:
The iPhone has always — with some truth — been considered the "rich man's phone." Apple customers tend to be better off than Android users and spend more on apps and in-app purchases. Accordingly, ad rates on iOS, Apple's operating system, are higher than on Google's OS.
This strong push is immediately going to make Apple's Watch OS an extremely attractive platform for developers looking to move into wearables, especially when coupled with the purchasing power of Apple consumers. And as this app ecosystem develops, it will make the Apple Watch even more attractive compared with other smartwatches, consolidating Apple's position further still.
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Picture comprehension? Not that right there could tie you with West Virginia.
It could be comprehension, or reading skills or research capabilities or intuition or just plain common sense ... the bottom line is that Oklahoma had EVERY SINGLE COUNTY in the state, including the major metropolitan areas (which usually go left elsewhere) ... ALL against Obama! And that’s a better result than any other state including Texas ... :-) ...
Oklahoma also has open carry here, and a religious freedom law. Just those things by themselves shows a pretty smart electorate ... :-) ...
Not too bad for a nice quaint little place. It is just too bad it isn’t very big and have enough electoral votes, like Texas.
Y’all used to have a great football team in Norman too. What happened there?
I’m not a fan, so I couldn’t tell you one way or another.
But I’ll mention something about the Electoral College. The nice thing about what the founding fathers did was to weight the system to favor the small states, in order to offset the big states. That’s why Presidential candidates find themselves campaigning in the small states, because they are needed, and this is especially so with the GOP.
If it weren’t for the Electoral College, those candidates would only campaign in large states and large metro areas and leave everyone else out of the picture. I have to thank the founding fathers for making Oklahoma a significant factor in these elections!
Great, you get a gold star for your Friday social studies assignment. Only two hundred more and you can graduate from primary school, that is those of you that still have those one room school houses.
There was a contest? ... LOL ...
...are you trying to reinsert the issue that the Admin Moderator said was a disgusting issue?!
Do NOT alter what we posted for your own purposes.
YOU were the offender here. What was disgusting was posted by you.
You receive an “aw crap”, you lose 5 gold stars, go to the back of the line and spend one more year in primary school.
I went back to read the posts and I don’t disagree with them, if that’s what is thought. That should make it clear.
The other issues are just that ... other issues ... and they didn’t bear on the previous post. It was convenient to bring up, as other issues, since you were there at the time.
Gold stars? ... you got me there ... it’s the first time I’ve heard them mentioned on Free Republic. Are you sure it’s not some kind of secret rite you’re involved in? ... LOL ...
LOL! Well looked who got elected for president, twice!
Fools indeed!
He didn’t get elected because of me and my vote, that’s for sure!. I refused to vote for him both times! But the fact that I didn’t vote for Obama doesn’t bear on the issue of me buying an iPhone, iPad or iMac. I haven’t gotten to the Apple Watch yet ... :-) ...
Also, I think you’ll find that the other 700 FReepers on the Apple Ping List didn’t vote for Obama either. That’s my guess, but I’m sure if you polled them, you would find it to be true. Not voting for Obama doesn’t stop them, either, from getting and using their Apple products.
Outside of Free Republic, I also know conservatives who have Apple products. You won’t find a correlation between an individual buying Apple products, and then supporting Obama or supporting the gay agenda.
Sheese, you old enough to be out of high school. That is 10th or 12th grade for Okies?
You gotta be talking about something you went through. Perhaps you can tell us about your gold stars ... LOL ...
Oh yeah. I’m probably going to get an iPhone again when my 2 years is up in August. I have an HTC One right now and although it is a decent phone, it’s just not as stable as the iPhone I had before the One. There are just too many bugs and junk I have to keep dealig with, that I don’t want to.
Good for you! You’ll probably be getting the new camera lens (they might have it in the next model).
Whatever one is “free” with a 2 year contract is what I’ll get. 6, 7 whatever! I know it will be an improvment either way!
You guys are too funny and so easy to get riled up .... like a Ford driving redneck getting mad when they see a Chevy truck with a sticker like this...
You guys need to grow up ,, not everything apple is great,, surely you can see you're just like the high schoolers looking for attention and envy from those of us that JUST DON'T CARE about your unhealthy obsession with being "cool".
Gold stars are only for smart people, you don’t count.
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