Wristly has published their first Apple Watch Customer Satisfaction results. Over the last week, the Wristly panel crossed the 1,100 subscribers mark and more than 800 completed this week’s survey.
With a high degree of confidence, Wristly states that the Apple Watch is doing extremely well on the key metric of customer satisfaction. This appears to be contrary to speculation from some tech and other pundits. Barely three months after launch, v1.0 of the Apple Watch has reached an amazingly high level of customer satisfaction. An astounding 66% are already “very satisfied / delighted” with Apple Watch and 31% of our panelists are “somewhat” satisfied with the Watch. Summing these two figures yields an Overall Customer Satisfaction rating of 97%.
Comparing Wristly’s customer satisfaction results for the Apple Watch with previous customer satisfaction results conducted by ChangeWave Research for the first generation versions of the iPhone and iPad, the results were very positive for the Apple Watch, as a 97% customer satisfaction rating places it ahead of both of these beloved Apple “v1.0” products. This is a very strong early indicator of Apple’s product execution for its first wearable product.
Lately, in the absence of any hard data from Apple, there has been a meme circulating (echoing is more like it) that the Watch might not be doing very well. This has been fueled, in part, by a study utilizing e-commerce data from U.S. digital receipts, but mostly by several industry pundits’ reports discussing personal observations of their Watch usage. To test this thesis, Wristly analyzed the satisfaction score by type of users in their panel.
Wristly found that 9% of their panel members work in tech and specifically have a job building or marketing mobile apps (“App Builders”) with another 34% classifying themselves as having different roles within the Tech industry (“Tech Insiders”) – the balance (also the majority at 53%) are comprised of everyday users of the Apple Watch (“Non Tech Users”). When Wristly analyzed this week’s customer satisfaction through the lens of this grouping, they found significant differences emerge in the degree of satisfaction for the Watch.
If looking at the “Satisfied” + “Very Satisfied” numbers for the “Non Tech Users,” the result is only bit higher than the other two cohorts. But looking specifically at the “Very Satisfied” category, the differences are staggering – 73% of “Non Tech Users” are delighted vs 63% for “Tech Insiders,” and only 43% for the ‘App Builders.” Wrislty is quite confident of this trend as it maps closely to the prior Net Promoter Score (“NPS”) research they conducted last month, where most claimed that the Watch was good, but only for certain types of early adopters. Today, we can see clearly that the mainstream consumers in our panel (and perhaps across the world?) are delighted with their Apple Watches.
More info via Wristly here.
MacDailyNews Take: So, “normal” people, the average Joe and Jane, in other words: the vast majority of consumers are delighted with their Apple Watches already. And this is even before watchOS 2 with native apps is delivered to their Apple Watches in a couple months!
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Newt Gingrich reviews Apple Watch: ‘Very helpful and surprisingly natural’ – June 19, 2015
One month with my Apple Watch: Why I’m loving it – June 17, 2015
Dalrymple reviews Apple Watch: ‘My most personal review ever’ – June 16, 2015
Apple Watch: 45 days later – June 8, 2015
Computerworld’s deep-dive Apple Watch review: ‘After a month of use: Very positive’ – June 8, 2015
Living with Apple Watch: One month in – June 3, 2015
Apple Watch: The early adopter’s take – June 1, 2015
Jean-Louis Gassée: Five weeks with Apple Watch – May 31, 2015
Ben Thompson: Apple Watch is being serially underestimated – May 20, 2015
BGR reviews Apple Watch: ‘A major technological achievement; you won’t want to take it off’ – May 7, 2015
The Telegraph reviews Apple Watch: Object of desire – May 7, 2015
Cult of Mac reviews Apple Watch: ‘Futuristic, fun and fan-flipping-tastic’ – April 28, 2015
PC Magazine reviews Apple Watch: ‘The best smartwatch available’ – April 28, 2015
Apple Watch owners shame so-called professional reviewers – April 27, 2015
Tech.pinions’ Ben Bajarin reviews Apple Watch: ‘Powerful’ and ‘completely new’ – April 8, 2015
It’s not essential but don’t take mine away
It’s so strange how for the past weeks most of the articles are about how no one is buying AppleWatches and the ones who do buy them, wear them for a week and then never use them again. I’m sure this is the general attitude of Wall Street that AppleWatch is a rather useless gadget. The general tone of AppleWatch is “Wall Street has its doubts about the future of AppleWatch.” I’m not saying they’re right because the iPad was also said to be like that, but this negativity has to be coming from somewhere.
That would be me. Never returned an apple purchase till there watch. Returned it on last day of the return period. No regrets. Was happy to put my breitling back on.
You are both trolls so real Apple Watch wearers do not care what you write.
And that just makes you unequivocally a fanboy.
No, not at all. You have no idea who you’re trolling to, do you? In fact, this has to be the worst Apple fanatic site for any anti-Apple troll in general. You’re either a newbie or a cluelessbie.
ok. Nice, analog, handmade watches are fun and Breitlings certainly fall into the moderate luxury category so, reasonable choice in that tier.
Choosing a digital, multifunction watch like the aaplWatch is quite different as it places a computer on your wrist that not only keeps accurate time but, tracks health information like your heart rate and your daily activity. It reminds you to be active and not sedentary. It allows you to glance down at texts discretely without pulling your phone out. It does the same for emails. It allows you to quickly pick up a call and have a quick conversation. It keeps an eye on live stock prices, the weather and, if you’re inclined, baseball, basketball and scores of other sports – at a glance. Finally, unlike other smart watches, like FitBit, it is well made and will last, which, my FitBit did not.
So, perhaps you can see, if in fact you actually owned the aaplWatch, you were barking up the wrong tree when pitting the aaplWatch against an aspirational luxury watch brand.
The negativity is coming from every Apple competitor. They are losing sales since they can’t design for crap, so they spread FUD and negative stories as much as they can.
See the 80s and 90s for how Microsoft did it. Now it’s cell phone makers that are freaking out.
Now I’ve had mine for nearly a month, the benefits of the health aspects of the watch are really starting to shine. Every week my calorie goal is increased because I want to get my achievements! I love the little subtle tap to get up and stand for a minute. As an IT shift worker it’s a boon. Reviewing all my activity on my iPhone is really motivating me and I feel fitter and better than ever.
The Apple Watch is the shizzle, I have a space grey sport with black leather loop and sports band. Can’t wait for os2 👍
The heart rate monitor is useless due to its inaccuracies. With that what’s the point.
Proof or shut up. Quote is good.
Quiet Is good.
Proof my a$$. Fanboy. Don’t need to prove anything to your sorry a$$
watchOS 2
Not surprising that tech insiders are less satisfied than the casual buyers. It’s a matter of realistic expectations. Techies rumoring capabilities, such as unicorn tear distillation and the like, every day for six months are bound to be somewhat disappointed with the final production model (what?! no tear distillation? What am supposed to do with this unicorn now?). And, of course App Builders are the most disappointed. They’ve had their hands tied, and that pisses them off.
Just goes to prove that the key to happiness is low expectations.
Their hands are not tied. They are all happily developing for watchOS 2.⌚️😍
They are NOW. But were very limited when data was likely collected on this study.
OMG Apple is seriously doomed this time. Sell sell sell. 😆