Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune, “‘We are not announcing the [Apple Watch sales] numbers,’ Tim Cook said, not for the first time, at a Wall Street Journal conference Monday night. ‘This is competitive information. I don’t want to help the competition. We shipped a lot [of Apple Watches] the first quarter, then last quarter we shipped even more. I can predict this quarter we will ship even more.'”
“That’s all Apple’s CEO — or anyone else at the company — is going to say about Apple Watch sales,” P.E.D. reports. “But Cook’s words may have sent a signal to the market, which gave the stock a $2.04 (1.83%) nudge the next day.”
“By Tuesday the average Q4 unit sales estimate among the analysts in Fortune’s panel — a mix of Wall Street professionals and seasoned amateurs — was 3.95 million, 20,000 Watches lower that Q3,” P.E.D. reports. “I wouldn’t be surprised, however, given Cook’s remarks, if some of those spreadsheets weren’t recalculated before next week’s earnings report.”
The complete list of analysts’ estimates, which range widely from 2.5 million to 6 million in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: 2.5 million is too low.
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I have seen two Apple watches in the wild in Sydney. In the local Apple Store there is a big display of watches, but no interest, even when the store is full of customers.
I know the three first-day purchasers in my circle of acquaintances. Two additional have appeared in that circle in the last month or so. If anyone is comparing, one Gear in circle owned before Watch was released; no new ones added since.
That’s not surprising as there’s nothing you can do at the Watch table. Whenever I go to an Apple Store the people hanging around iPhones, iPads or Macs are surfing the internet.
I’ve been seeing them a lot lately in NYC. They (thankfully) blend in pretty well (unlike the Samsung tablet on the wrist, which I’ve never seen anywhere other than their stupid f’ing ads), particularly the black sport, so you have to look for them.
Doesn’t mean anything about sales, but I’m pretty sure they’ll start popping up more and more.
Is there any point, whatsoever, for analysts to be simply guessing how many AppleWatches has been sold. Considering how widely varied their guesses are then any chimpanzee could count his droppings times a million and come up with a closer number. It’s just so stupid. Why don’t they bother to guess the number of Amazon Kindles being sold?
No it makes no sense. There’s no way to know who was close since we don’t know average selling price or actual revenue.
It’s somewhere between 1 and A BAZINGAGILLION. Not hard to figure out really.
I heard 4 Brazilian watches were sold. (To paraphrase George W, “How many … In a Brazilian?”) 🖖😀⌚️
well, today FitBit demonstrated why you don’t want a cheap schwag-watch that can be hacked, infected and then infect your computer. this should put the fear into swatch and Tag Heuer – who don’t know cyber-security from their elbow.
FitBit just killed the low end wearable market with lax security.
This situation exposes the analysts for the frauds that they are.
If Apple had provided some sort of figure, such as X million, the analysts would have tweaked it up a bit or down a bit and pontificated about what their analysis reveals,
When there is no base figure to start with, their analysis totally falls apart and they are seen to be coming up with random numbers.
I hope that Tim Cook continues to keep the sales figures confidential and ridicules the analysts by saying that not one of them is even in the right ball park when it comes to the real sales numbers.
Analysts are no friends of Apple. They circulate downright lies and peddle rumours that turn out to be quite untrue. When they ‘calculate’ sales numbers, they are always wildly inaccurate. They need to be constantly shown up as the charlatans that they are so that their influence can be diminished.
Totally agree. And analysts are generally in league with WS criminals following associated agendas.