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No One Is Buying Smartwatches Anymore (gizmodo.com)

Posted by msmash on from the ain't-nobody-want-to-see-that dept.

An anonymous reader shares a Gizmodo report: Remember how smartwatches were supposed to be the next big thing? About that... The market intelligence firm IDC reported on Monday that smartwatch shipments are down 51.6 percent year-over-year for the third quarter of 2016. This is bad news for all smartwatch vendors (except maybe Garmin), but it's especially bad for Apple, which saw shipments drop 71.6 percent, according to the IDC report Apple is still the overall smartwatch market leader, with an estimated 41.3-percent of the market, but IDC estimates it shipped only 1.1 million Apple Watches in Q3 2016, compared with 3.9 million in 2015. To a degree, that's to be expected, since the new Apple Watch Series 2 came out at the tail-end of the quarter. But the news is still a blow, when you consider how huge the Apple Watch hype was just 18 months ago.

4 of 330 comments (clear)

  1. Because you look dumb wearing it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There was a French kid in my high school who had this bulbous digital watch which was all the rage in France.

    We made fun of him for it relentlessly.

    That's how I knew smart watches were lame.

    1. Re:Because you look dumb wearing it by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 5, Funny

      We here at Slashdot are the nerds you picked on in High School.

      Shouldn't you be on 4Chan or somewhere like that?

  2. I blame Brexit! by plopez · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm not sure why but sooner or later someone will come up with a reason ;)

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  3. Re:People probably realized.. by Pseudonym · · Score: 5, Funny

    they already have a phone...or a watch.

    And smart wristwatches have no hipster cred value. Smart pocketwatches... now you're talking.

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