“With an aggressive nine country launch into a user base of more than 400 million iPhone owners, the Apple Watch will likely represent the largest new product category launch, according to sales, in Apple’s 38-year history,” Neil Cybart writes for Above Avalon.
“Given my opening weekend sales expectations, the Apple Watch launch may be upwards of 12x as large as the iPad launch,” Cybart writes. “I am establishing calendar year 2015 and 2016 Apple Watch unit sales estimates of 19 and 33 million, respectively.”
Cybart writes, “I am establishing a 3.5 million opening weekend sales estimate based primary on the list of launch countries and what I consider to be a realistic amount of available supply.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Cybart gets it. Apple Watch is going to so thoroughly change things that listening to the naysayers bray causes us to shiver in anticipation of the deluge of schadenfreude to come.