Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve...
by stephengillie on Friday August 07, 2015 @07:08PM
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Apple doesn't say how many watches they've sold, but...
> That would suggest the company may have sold at least 1.9 million watches, assuming the Apple Watch had an average selling price of $499. NPD estimates the traditional watch industry sold 927,500 timepieces in June in the U.S.
So the Apple is estimated to have sold twice as many of their Apple Watches as traditional watches have been sold? And traditional watch sales only declined 11%?
I don't know that Apple are eating traditional watches so much as providing a new accessory to own.
Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve...
by IBM on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:00PM
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If anything happens to the traditional watch industry it will be over a long period once people are conditioned into having something with more utility on their wrist.
> That would suggest the company may have sold at least 1.9 million watches, assuming the Apple Watch had an average selling price of $499. NPD estimates the traditional watch industry sold 927,500 timepieces in June in the U.S.
So the Apple is estimated to have sold twice as many of their Apple Watches as traditional watches have been sold? And traditional watch sales only declined 11%?
I don't know that Apple are eating traditional watches so much as providing a new accessory to own.