“Apple’s smartwatch, the Apple Watch, is once again the most talked-about product of the 2015 holiday shopping season, according to IBM Watson Trend,” Patrick Seitz reports for Investor’s Business Daily.
“Apple Watch was the top trending product when IBM debuted its IBM Watson Trend App for the holiday shopping season on Nov. 18,” Seitz reports. “But Samsung TVs surpassed it during the Black Friday sales weekend as consumers buzzed about low-cost 4K ultrahigh-definition television deals.”
“The IBM Watson Trend App analyzes millions of conversations across social networks, blogs, forums, comments, ratings and reviews to determine which products are likely to be top gifts this holiday season,” Seitz reports. “IBM Watson Trend now gives the Apple Watch a top score of 100.”
“Last week, Apple Watch slipped to second place with a score of 72 while Samsung TVs climbed to first place with a score of 100,” Seitz reports. “This week, with Apple at 100, Samsung TVs are in second place with a score of 96.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple Watch is going to have a very Merry Christmas!
And, do not reward thieves: Boycott Samsung-branded products.
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Apple Watch users are abandoning traditional watches – September 15, 2015
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IDC estimates Apple sold 3.6 million Apple Watch units in Q2 – August 27, 2015
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Apple Watch is Apple’s most successful product debut ever – June 1, 2015
Did my Apple Watch survey today. Been a great two months with it!
If you ever manage to climb out of the Troll-Hole in your mom’s basement, you will see real humans wearing Apple Watches. You want one SO BAD, yet you don’t make any fun tickets just jacking off in said basement.
Apple watch is a no brainer! TV is an even more vast wasteland than when the phrase was first coined.
Yes, if had a brain you wouldn’t buy one! Version 2 will be on its way soon and you would have wasted your money.
I bought my fiancé an Apple Watch for Christmas. She even did a bad job covering up the fact that she unwrapped it and wrapped it back up, peaking at it under the tree :p she’s excited and we both laughed about it. I told her she might as well just have it now, but she wants to wait.
Your fiancé seems to be a keeper. Don’t screw it up!
Thanks! She sure is 🙂
If Apple sells 8 million watches at an average ASP of $430 then it is possible the watch could generate approximately $0.16 a share in earnings. This would bump EPS 5% over the December 2014 quarter. This is great for a first year product when comparing it to last year’s monster December quarter.
At $118 a share many investors are still writing-off the Apple Watch as a product by pricing in zero profits for fiscal 2016 and beyond. In previous months these investors said the Apple watch wouldn’t move the needle, but if this article is correct and the Apple Watch is a hit, then that bearish investment thesis has just completely fallen apart.
Also, something else to consider: the beginning of the Apple Watch journey seems eerily similar to first year iPhone sales. Back a few years ago many were saying the iPhone form factor was either too much like a toy, it was too difficult to type on because it lacked physical keys, it was too expensive, etc, but look at it now: 1.6 billion phones designed like the iPhone will be sold in 2016. Will smartwatches follow a similar path? I think so.
And remember MDN, Apple also copies patents and copies other designs!