“Analysts have begun predicting how many watches Apple will sell as the wearable’s April release date nears,” Julia Love reports for The Mercury News.
“In a report published yesterday, CCS Insight forecast that Apple will sell 20 million watches by the year’s end. Although that analysis assumes that just 7 percent of people who own iPhones compatible with the Apple Watch will take the plunge, that adoption rate would be enough to put Apple at the top of the nascent smartwatch market, the research firm wrote,” Love reports.
Love reports, “‘This highly anticipated smartwatch will create a frenzy of demand, catapulting it almost instantaneously to be the most successful smartwatch ever,’ the report reads. ‘The current love affair affluent US consumers have with the iPhone guarantees a strong start for the Apple Watch in its home market.'”
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