The iPod is outperforming the Apple Watch – in Google searches, as new iPods debut, ten months after Apple Watch was unveiled

“It’s hard to believe, but people care more about the veteran iPod than the brand new Apple Watch,” Ananya Bhattacharya reports for CNN. “A search on Google Trends comparing five of Apple’s products– iPod, Macbook, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch– reveals that people are searching for the Watch far less than any of the other Apple products.”

“The company’s first new gadget in five years– the first since Steve Jobs died– could turn out to be a bad apple (excuse the pun),” Bhattacharya reports. “With Apple keeping mum about Watch sales figures, Google Trends and e-receipt data is the little hard evidence we have to judge performance. Just last week, Slice Intelligence reported a 90% decline in Apple Watch orders since its launch from a snapshot of 2.5 million online U.S. users’ e-mail receipts.”

“Talking heads about Apple Watch sales are plenty but Apple remains mum. Its figures are the only accurate figures out there and it won’t release Apple Watch sales any time soon,” Bhattacharya reports. “Now whether that’s to avoid competitors getting access to sales figures, as CEO Tim Cook claims, or because Apple too has low expectations is a mystery.”

“What’s behind the low interest?” Bhattacharya reports. “People may just not be so interested in wearables, which is a tiny market compared to smartphones, PCs, tablets and other more established gadgets.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: What a joke CNN is. This load of absolute horseshit is simply a concoction designed to allow for CNN to once again repeat the interminably recycled FUD based on meaningless Slice data.

Here’s what the Google Trends search data actually says, iPod vs. Apple Watch, ten months after Apple Watch was revealed and after weeks of iPod rumors leading up to yesterday’s debut of the new iPod touch:

 
That – that! – is the basis for this CNN “report.”

Each day we mourn a bit more for the long, lost profession of accurate, unbiased journalism. The CNN hit-whores should be ashamed.

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