“Something tells me that there were a lot of Apple Watches under the tree this year,” Craig Hockenberry reports for Furbo.org.
The graph below “shows the last month of downloads for my free Clicker app for watchOS,” Hockenberry reports. “Since this app does nothing on an iPhone or iPad, the only reason to get it is if you have a new watch.”
“Many of us, myself included, originally thought of the Apple Watch as a device in and of itself,” Hockenberry reports. “But the more I use the computer on my wrist, the more it feels like a satellite to the computer that’s sitting in my pocket.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Boom!
This Christmas day, millions of new Apple Watches will come online, begin communicating and, most importantly, go out into the world to be seen by the have-nots as advertisements in action. The intent to buy will increase right along with, and driven in large part by, adoption. Apple Watch 2, assuming Apple can manage to have enough ready for a proper launch (big assumption, these days; fingers crossed), will really kick the smartwatch market into high gear! — MacDailyNews, December 16, 2015
Anecdotally, we know a lot of people who just got new Apple Watches for Christmas. — MacDailyNews, December 29, 2015
FYI: Clicker for Apple Watch is simply one big button. Every time you tap your watch face you get a little haptic feedback and the counter goes up. If you force press, you can decrement or reset the counter. There is also a watch complication that lets you see the current count on your watch face. It’s more useful than you might imagine.
SEE ALSO:
Apple Watch could surprise to the upside – December 29, 2015
Apple Watch future is bright as U.S. smartwatch sales seen primed for surge – December 16, 2015
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jeff L.” for the heads up.]
The ‘Clicker’ app that is being
advertisedmentioned in the article is simple, straightforward and useful (for those who need such a functionality), but not a necessity, or even useful, for every single Watch user.His chart shows a fairly steady flow of downloads in the month leading up to it, and the spike came as it normally would, with the volume tripling the highest watermark of the month before. While some may think of this as a somewhat disappointing number (barely three times as much on Christmas day as on a day a few weeks earlier, when no gifts are changing hands, and few personal purchases are made), if we keep in mind that this little app is NOT the general use necessity, the spike is a rather good news.
The promos on Apple watches during the Christmas season really did seem to work. I saw a lot being sold at Target and Best Buy.
Also, my wife (who is a complete non-techie person) really loves the one I got her. She first told me she didn’t need it and to return it. Now, two weeks later, I don’t think she would give it up.
I was unaware of this app and have now happily downloaded and installed it on my WATCH SPORT. I have use this exact functionality. Am requesting the make interval adjustable. Thanks MDN for letting us know it’s there.🎉⌚️😄🔚
I see there is a counter on that image for “Returns”.. What exactly is the Appstore return policy? Also is that download count in thousands or face value?