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Year-Over-Year Smartwatch Sales Jumped By 61% In the US Last Year (bgr.com)
New research from The NPD Group reveals that the smartwatch market overall is growing at an impressive rate and that the Apple Watch remains the best-selling wearable on the market. "Specifically, year-over-year smartwatch unit sales in the U.S. jumped by 61% while revenue jumped by 51%," reports BGR. "As for specific revenue figures, the report relays that smartwatch revenue from November of 2017 through November of 2018 checked in at $5 billion. One particularly interesting data point is that 88% of all smartwatch sales can be attributed to Apple, Samsung, and Fitbit." From the report: "Over the last 18 months smartwatch sales gained strong momentum, proving the naysayers, who didn't think the category could achieve mainstream acceptance, had potentially judged too soon," NPD analyst Weston Henderek said in a press release. "The ability to be truly connected via built-in LTE without the need to have a smartphone nearby proved to be a tipping point for consumers, as they now recognize the value in being able to complete a wide range of tasks on the device including receiving notifications, messaging, accessing smart home controls, and more."
Indeed, Apple executives have pointed to the inclusion of LTE connectivity on the Apple Watch Series 3 as a huge selling point. Notably, Apple Watch sales during the 2017 holiday quarter were record-breaking. More recently, Tim Cook said that revenue from Apple wearables line jumped by 50% "thanks to strong sales of both Apple Watch and AirPods."
Indeed, Apple executives have pointed to the inclusion of LTE connectivity on the Apple Watch Series 3 as a huge selling point. Notably, Apple Watch sales during the 2017 holiday quarter were record-breaking. More recently, Tim Cook said that revenue from Apple wearables line jumped by 50% "thanks to strong sales of both Apple Watch and AirPods."
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. When the numbers are so low it is easy to show large increases.
Said Michael Jan-Vincent into his bourbon and raw egg protein "shake", bitterly.
Sales of gadgets climb until they either saturate the market and sales stop climbing or the gadget loses it's novelty.
PCs/laptop sales are flat or down
Smart phones flat or down
Insert gadget here, sales climb as they get popular, then either people get tired of it or everyone has it and sales fall off. Smart watches are a fad and will not be in use in any large fashion in 10 years as they will get replaced by something else.
....4586% of all people will have smartwatches by 2025! Think of the money!
At first I read the headline as "Year-Over-Year Sammich Sales Jumped By 61% In the US Last Year ". Too close to dinner time, I guess.
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
R.I.P. my Pebble smart watch.
Amazing how that shut the squawking jew up. He squawks all day long on slashdot but that made him go silent. Go figure. Jews exposed stfu.
'Yep! Nothing but crickets...derp.' - by 110010001000 ( 697113 ) on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:38PM (#56368907)
Tell us more JEW "I am Jewish" by 110010001000 https://slashdot.org/comments.... Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.
Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.
This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all
Exterminate jewggers
Fastest-Growing
Maybe so, but most smartwatches I see around here are on older people. Especially at the gym. I get the feeling that people begin to like the idea that you can do 90% of the useful things on a watch without 90% of the distracting crap like InyourFacebook. Fitnesss tracking is much better too.
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
And i have seen a lot more in the last year. Maybe the hardware is finally fast enough to be useful
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
it's fitness tracking.
that's the "application" for them.
Anyhow, apple execs are insane if they think that having lte on the watch matters anything. sure, having a data connection is useful so you can leave your phone at home, but not that it is lte.
also, well. these are nearing the last years where you can sell 800bucks phones. they're running out of things to add to them. you can literally place 150 bucks phones next to 800 dollar phones on a table and if you don't know beforehand you can't say which is the expensive one - even if you're shown people using them for typical tasks.
the sub 100 bucks smartphone market in emerging markets is especially important as for those people that is the only digital connected device they have ever had.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
You could have just said "Smartwatch sales jumped by 61% in 2018" without trying to shoehorn in pretentious marketing jargon like a badass and failing by being redundant. I'm surprised you didn't try to work "synergize", "paradigms", and "kaizen" in there too.
Ok, NOW I get it. Not having to pull my phone out of the belt clip-case 3,403 times to see who is calling, texting, emailing is definitely worth it! The nice addition to having it show the heart rate, sleep pattern is just a bonus.
Do you people ever tire of this sort of thing?
>Apple: Makes the iPod
>Slashdot: No wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame
>Apple: Takes nearly every dime of profit from the portable music player market
>Microsoft: Sets fire to billions of dollars trying to compete
>Apple: Makes the iPhone
>Slashdot: Consumers don't want smartphones touchscreens are stupid they'll get boogers all over them this is going to fail
>Apple: Crushes all legacy smartphone manufacturers and makes so much money off it their finance can't count it all
>Microsoft: Sets fire to billions of dollars trying to compete
>Apple: Makes the iPad
>Slashdot: This is a fail computers are for doing work nobody will buy this
>Apple: Sucks all the profit out of the tablet market. Again their finance people beg them to stop
>Microsoft: Sets fire to billions of dollars trying to compete, though they learned their lesson and kept an extinguisher nearby labeled "Surface Pro"
>Apple: Makes the Apple Watch
>Slashdot: No one wants a super watch they just want fitbits and the like
>Apple: Boy you'd think we'd have worn out those money printing presses by now.
>Microsoft: *crickets*
And on and on. Do you think you people will ever come to terms with the fact that you have no idea what computing devices normal people want?
LOL! Well done.
Is an iPhone Mini. Proof that not everyone wants a big phone.