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Apple Watch Remains Best-Selling Wearable With 4.7 Million Shipments Last Quarter (theverge.com)
According to research firm IDC, Apple sold 4.7 million Apple Watch units last quarter, capturing 17 percent of the global market. The only other company close on Apple's heels is Xiaomi, which "trailed Apple by two percentage points in market share and 500,000 unit shipments in the second quarter of the year," reports The Verge. From the report: Fitbit, Huawei, and Garmin are far behind, with IDC reporting that higher demand for more fully featured smartwatches is driving demand for Apple products and reducing the popularity of lower-cost fitness trackers. IDC stresses that this is a natural cycle for consumer electronics and that fitness-focused devices will still have a place in the market going forward. IDC says demand for its LTE-equipped Series 3 device largely drove Apple's wearable sales last quarter, and the device received a number of discounts at big-box retail stores that may have led to a surge in consumer purchases. Refurbished versions of the Apple Watch Series 3 also went up for sale on Apple's retail site starting in February.
It's IDC.
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This isn't news. Pretending otherwise insults us both.
Even shills are more discrete. This is tour-guide bullshit.
The real news is, Xiaomi came out of nowhere and pulled up within 2% of Apple. Looks like Apple will be knocked out of first place pretty soon. And keep an eye on Huawei too, grew 118% YoY to 6.5%
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I bet Depends sells more than this.
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Do not want. Got a Suunto. Nice looking. Battery last 2 weeks easy.
But it can't make or receive phone calls or texts.
Dick Tracy wouldn't be caught dead wearing one.
My $15 Timex still works better for telling the time
A smart watch does not just tell time (although it does that well). It receives texts, makes phone calls, takes photos, and runs apps. If you are comparing it to a $15 Timex, then you are completely missing the point.
The early Apple Watch was sort of pointless since it didn't do the phone calls or texts without an iPhone within BlueTooth range. But that gaping hole has been fixed, and the latest Apple Watch is a tiny standalone smart phone.
My wife has an Apple Phone and she is very happy with it.
Yes but I do not want all of that attached to my wrist any more than I want to use Google Glass. If I want to use my phone--guess what--I pull out my phone. When I do not want to use my phone, it stays put away.
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A smart watch does not just tell time (although it does that well).
Oh, and: only compared to no watch at all.
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Speaking literally, wouldn't the Apple Watch be better for telling the time since it can actually speak... :-)
To me an Apple Watch is just as much an advancement as moving from a flip phone to a smart phone. And each iteration gets notably better - this year I plan to move from the first Apple Watch (the haughtily named "series 0") to whatever update they put out - not because it's not working, but because I would like a cell watch now that a second model is arriving to refine that.
That's great that all you want or need is time but when that's all watches did I stopped wearing them.
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If I want to use my phone--guess what--I pull out my phone.
But then you still need to carry your phone with you everywhere you go.
That may be ok for you, but there are people out there that don't automatically think that something big and clunky is obviously better than something small and light that can do the same thing.
When smartphones came along, we put up with the worse recharge times because the benefits were clear to us. But as a watch wearer, I’m hard-pressed to come up with a benefit of the current smart watches that would justify its cost or the need to recharge it on a nightly basis.
My current dumb watch (Timex? Casio? I couldn’t even tell you) cost me $40, has lasted for years on its original battery, syncs with the atomic clock every night so that I never need to worry about it’s accuracy, stays on my wrist when I swim or go in the shower or go to sleep or wherever, can have its time zone changed as I travel, and otherwise doesn’t try to be too clever for its own good, since I don’t care about the other features. It replaced my previous unit of the exact same model, which met an untimely end.
I find the Apple Watch interesting, but it doesn’t really do anything different for me unless I pair it with some Air Pods, at which point we’ve just added $200 more to the asking price. I don’t need to listen to podcasts when my phone isn’t handy that much, and I loathe the idea of products in categories that should be able to last for a decade or longer only lasting a few years on account of their batteries.
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It's called Unicode, it's a standard and supported by all websites that matter.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
So you went from a digital watch, which is a pretty neat idea, to a mechanical watch?
Isn't that like a downgrade?
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Mechanical watches are charming. Yes, quaint but fascinating that something without electronics can be accurate to a few seconds per day. Beautiful.
It seems that many people find it useful.
So you went from a digital watch, which is a pretty neat idea, to a mechanical watch? Isn't that like a downgrade?
From a strict technological standpoint: yes. But having a small mechanical machine on your wrist that harvests energy from your movements to keep time is just so much more fun than something electronic. And I still consider it a better timepiece than a smart watch because the time is always visible.
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So you went from a digital watch, which is a pretty neat idea, to a mechanical watch? Isn't that like a downgrade?
From a strict technological standpoint: yes. But having a small mechanical machine on your wrist that harvests energy from your movements to keep time is just so much more fun than something electronic. And I still consider it a better timepiece than a smart watch because the time is always visible.
Yeah - and you don't really need the exact time. Ever. Because when you have a mechanical watch, the whole world will wait for you because you are so special.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.