Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seven Years

Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve... by PaulHoule on Friday August 07, 2015 @07:21PM (#10025585)

If Apple is killing watches it is not because of Apple watch, it is because if you have an iPhone you don't need a watch.

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Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve... by tzs on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:32PM (#10025979)

I'm not sure about that explanation. Clocks were very common on cell phones long before the iPhone came along.

The iPhone greatly changed the type of cell phone people carried, but I don't think it changed the number of people who carried cell phones, so would it really have had much influence on whether or not people used a watch?

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Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve... by EugeneOZ on Saturday August 08, 2015 @01:52AM (#10026482)

But big drop has happened after Apple Watch release, so your version is wrong. Even co-founder of Swiss watch brand understand it.

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Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve... by enraged_camel on Friday August 07, 2015 @09:47PM (#10026015)

>>I'm not sure about that explanation. Clocks were very common on cell phones long before the iPhone came along.

But people weren't using "dumb phones" nearly to the same extent that they use smartphones today.

If you had a Nokia 3210, the only time you used the phone was for calls and text messages (and also for playing Snake, but that took up the whole screen and you couldn't see what time it was).

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Re:Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seve... by tdkl on Saturday August 08, 2015 @03:54AM (#10026656)

Eh ? You took the phone out to check the time as same as you do now in the smartphone era and I remember people stopping to wear watches for the same reason.

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