“Apple Inc.’s watch is gaining sales momentum with the official start of the holiday shopping season, said Dan Ives, an analyst at FBR & Co.,” Jennifer Booton reports for MarketWatch.
“The analyst reiterated an outperform rating on the stock Friday afternoon and said store checks at various Apple, Target and Best Buy locations on Black Friday morning revealed ‘growing interest’ in Apple Watch,” Booton reports. “‘While supply constraints/a choppy launch period have caused stumbles out of the gates,’ he said in a note to clients, ‘we have slowly seen momentum in the field over the last few months.'”
Booton reports, “FBR expects Apple to sell between 5 million and 6 million units in December alone, compared with the roughly 6 million it has sold overall in the roughly six months since its late-April launch, according to FBR’s estimates.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully all of the Apple Watch launch momentum that Apple squandered by having no supply for months will be regained and then some!
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Best Buy and Target all sold out Apple Watch, luckily I got one from each stores before they all sold out.
But how could this be when there are no killer apps, and no one wares a watch anymore, and you have to recharge it like a smartphone, and Samsung can’t sell theirs, and it only works with iPhones, and Tim Cook is gay, and it cost money, and it’s to big, and it’s to small, and it doesn’t do real work, and Apple is doomed, and IDC in never wrong, and… /s
The Apple Watch and IPhone are only the gateways to the eventual Apple Card….Apple owning its own bank and credit processing organization…competing with Visa and MC.
They were selling a lot of watches at the Target I visited on Friday morning. They were totally sold out on on the 64 gb iPhone 6s I was trying to find.
Apple products seemed to be the only thing people were really out looking for at the Target, WalMart, and Best Buy I went to.
I think that the “analysts” will be very surprised by iPhone sales this season. Demand doesn’t seem to be slowing at all.