“Fossil didn’t mention Apple by name, but the watch maker said new competitors are making this year a tough one,” Elaine Low reports for Investor’s Business Daily.
As we entered the year, we identified several disruptive factors that were going to make 2015 challenging… We expected visibility would be difficult with new entrants moving into our market. While we feel this will energize the category in the long-term as we add technology to our products, the near-term implications seem to be playing out. — Fossil CEO Kosta Kartsotis, August 11, 2015
“The ‘new entrants’ plausibly include the Apple Watch, which has threatened to shake up the traditional watch industry,” Low reports. “A recent survey by market tracker NPD Group found unit sales of watches at U.S. retailers sank 14% in June from a year ago, the most since 2008, suggesting the Apple Watch is already hitting demand for traditional watches.”
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MacDailyNews Take:
Fossil is soon to discover just how aptly they’re named. – MacDailyNews, November 13, 2014
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Non-techies love their Apple Watches even more than tech users – July 20, 2015
Apple Watch is Apple’s most successful product debut ever – June 1, 2015
Analyst sees Apple Watch threat to Fossil ‘becoming real’ – April 20, 2015
Apple Watch Edition is poised to disrupt the classic Swiss watch – April 16, 2015
The Apple Watch’s beautiful face is also its fatal flaw – says Fossil exec – March 6, 2015
Enjoy it while it lasts, Fossil – Apple Watch looms – November 13, 2014
Barclays: Apple Watch could crush companies like Fossil – September 16, 2014
Apple Watch, the world’s first real smart watch, will be a massive hit – September 9, 2014
Fossil…a wrist bound device that was once worn in the early 21 century. Apple hopes that Apple Watch doesn’t become an extinct technology discussed in history books.
I am 100% certain that wrist computers will be all anyone wears by 2025.⌚️🎉😃
By 2025, wrist “computers” will be long passé, having been supplanted by implanted SOC’s directly linked to our brain neurons… 🙂
We’re all history sooner or later, both people and technology. Disrupting existing markets with subsequent casualties is a given. But for now enjoy all the delicious fruitiness afoot!
““The ‘new entrants’ plausibly include the Apple Watch…”
Plausibly? Well, he sure ain’t talking about the Samsung Stupidwatch!
Hahahahahaha! That’s all I can say to the incumbents who sat on their asses for years.
I have not worn a watch in years.
Apple has gotten me interested in trying a wrist worn device again. Because it is not a hot button item for me, I am waiting to see if some of the sensors that were discussed, but didn’t make it into the first Apple Watch make it into the second iteration. Then I am a buyer. I suspect there are a lot of other folks with similar interest level and intentions.
Looks like “Fossil” will turn out to be a prescient name choice.
Here’s an idea. Fossil could team up with Apple and produce fossil themed iWatches.