What sales fall off of the Apple Watch, Okie? That seems to exist only in your delusional mind. Apple sold over 3.5 million Apple Watches in the first quarter they were available and then they bested that in the next quarter with 4.5 million. Where in hell is your mythical drop in sales???? You want proof? Here it is:
Strategy Analytics: Apple Watch sells 4.5 million units in Q315, takes 74% global smartwatch market share
Strategy Analytics -- Wednesday, October 28, 2015According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew an impressive 510 percent annually to hit a record 6.1 million units in the third quarter of 2015. In first place with a commanding 74 percent marketshare, Apple’s revolutionary Apple Watch continues to catalyze demand and set the pace in the smartwatch industry.
Cliff Raskind, Director at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement, “Global smartwatch shipments grew an impressive 510 percent annually from 1.0 million units in Q3 2014 to hit a record 6.1 million in Q3 2015. Global smartwatch growth is being driven by consumer demand across North America, Western Europe and Asia for the much-hyped Apple Watch model.”
Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “We estimate Apple Watch shipped 4.5 million units and captured a dominant 74 percent smartwatch marketshare worldwide in Q3 2015. Apple Watch’s retail presence is expanding fast and the device is now available in over 30 countries worldwide, including the United States, South Korea and China. However, Apple Watch is still not widely available at most mobile operators, and this is one area of weakness that Apple must improve to maintain its shipment growth in the future.”
Rajeev Nair, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, added, “We estimate Samsung shipped 0.6 million smartwatches, capturing 10 percent marketshare worldwide for second position. Apple and Samsung together account for 8 in 10 of all smartwatches shipped globally. Samsung remains a distant second to Apple, but its new range of Gear S2 models is being promoted heavily and this will enable Samsung to bounce back with stronger marketshare during the upcoming Q4 2015 holiday season.”
Exhibit 1: Global Smartwatch Vendor Shipments and Marketshare in Q3 2015
Source: Strategy Analytics
Note: Numbers are rounded
Then there is the prediction for the future quarter from IBM's Watson:
IBM Watson Trend pegs Apple Watch as hottest holiday gift
By Neil Hughes -- Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 07:06 am PT (10:06 am ET)IBM on Wednesday launched a new app and service called Watson Trend, which forecasts what consumer products will be popular this holiday season based on online chatter. Currently dominating the list: the Apple Watch.
IBM Watson Trend is a free download from the iOS App Store, designed for both iPhone and iPad. It uses IBM's supercomputer technology to read and interpret millions of reviews, expert blogs and social media conversations to determine what gifts people are talking about.
By far the most popular device on the list is the Apple Watch, which has maintained a "trend score" above 90 (out of 100) since mid-August. With a perfect score of 100 as of Wednesday, the Apple Watch has a score nearly double that of the next closest product: Samsung TVs.
In fact, Okie, the CEO of Best Buy attributes sales of Apple Watches to Best Buy's turn around in the third quarter of the year and made the decision to rush deployment to all 1500 of their stores in time for the holiday season.
Demand for Apple Watch has been 'so high,' Best Buy will start selling it everywhere
Matt Rosoff -- Aug. 25, 2015, 8:17 PMThe Apple Watch has been such a strong seller for Best Buy that the company is rolling it out to all 1,050 of its stores by the end of September, up from 100 stores this month.
The electronics retail chain is also expanding the Apple "store within a store" program, where it sets up a special area to display Apple products.
On the company's earnings call yesterday, CEO Hubert Joly said:
"The stores-within-a-store will have new Apple fixtures and are larger with more display tables for phones, computers and tablets. We've already implemented approximately 350 of them and expect to upgrade a total of approximately 520 by holiday. The additional display tables are great for the merchandising of Apple Watch, which went on sale on BestBuy.com and in more than 100 of our stores in August."Now because demand for Apple Watch has been so strong in these stores and online, we are excited to share that beginning September 4 we will be carrying Apple Watch in more than 900 of our big-box stores. Apple Watch will be available in all 1,050 of our big-box stores and in approximately 30 of our Best Buy Mobile Stores by the end of September.
In July, market data from Slice suggested that Apple Watch sales had plunged after strong initial interest, echoing fears from some Apple analysts. But Apple said that the watch sold better in its first nine weeks on the market than the iPhone and iPad did, and 1010Data recently said that the Apple Watch has nabbed 88% of the smartwatch market.
BestBuy surprised Wall Street with stronger than expected sales in the quarter ended Aug. 1, and the stock went up more than 12% today.
So, the record is that Apple has sold over 8 MILLION Apple Watches since they were put on Pre-Order on April 10, 2015. Your claim the sales didn't last long, or that the "sales fell off" is a total lie.
It's too late to argue with apple trolls and I'm rambling like hell.
No, Okie, you're spewing nonsense like hell. . . and frequently lying through your teeth, like most Apple Hate Brigade trolls.
