Apple decided to reduce Apple Watch Sport prices [by US$50] last month. “Average daily sales rose 250% sequentially, according to new metrics from Slice Intelligence,” Adam Rogers reports for MarketRealist. “The research company stated that Apple’s decision to cut the wearable’s price entry by $50 was successful, at least in the short term. The entry price of the 38-millimeter Apple Watch came down from $349 to $299.”
“The company also announced new brands and styles alongside the price cut. However, the prices for the stainless steel and gold editions of the Apple Watch didn’t change,” Rogers reports. “IDC expects the Apple Watch to command a 49.4% share of the smartwatch segment in 2016, with estimated sales of 14 million units, far ahead of the Android Wear. The Android Wear is projected to be in second place, with a 21.4% share and 6.1 million units.”
“According to research company Canalys, Apple shipped 12 million smartwatches in 2015. This shows that Apple controls 67% of the total smartwatch market. In November 2015, Canalys reported that Apple had shipped 7 million smartwatches since Apple Watch’s launch in April 2015,” Rogers reports. “Canalys’s estimate of 5 million shipments during the holiday season puts Apple well above its rival[s].”
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MacDailyNews Take: IDC’s Apple Watch unit sales estimates for 2016 and beyond are too low by a significant margin.
SEE ALSO:
Apple Watch debut-year sales doubled those of iPhone in its first year – May 6, 2016
Apple Watch predicted to capture 50% market share in 2016 – March 17, 2016
Thanks to Apple Watch, smartwatches are now more popular than Swiss watches – February 19, 2016
Canalys: Apple shipped over 12 million Apple Watches in 2015, two-thirds of all smartwatches shipped in 2015 – February 5, 2016
Apple Watch kickstarted interest in wearable devices; sales of fitness trackers and VR headsets are set for rapid growth – February 2, 2016
Apple Watch beats Rolex in luxury brands ranking – January 29, 2016
Apple Watch revenues expected to be $8.4 billion for first year – January 26, 2016
Juniper: Apple Watch has already cornered the smartwatch market – January 12, 2016
Apple COO: ‘Apple Watch marks the end of single-function wrist devices’ – January 7, 2016
Fitbit either doesn’t understand Apple Watch or hopes consumers won’t; neither is good for the company – January 6, 2016
Fitbit exec calls Apple Watch a ‘toy,’ Fitbit shares crater more than 13% after unveiling Apple Watch Sport knockoff – January 5, 2016
It’s official: The Apple Watch is destroying the so-called competition – November 20, 2015
As Apple Watch sales ramp, Swiss watch makers suffer biggest slump in six years – November 19, 2015
Apple Watch models take top four spots on 10 most-wanted smartwatches list – November 18, 2015
Apple Watch is 2016’s hottest holiday gift – November 18, 2015
Apple has already sold more than $1.7 billion worth of Apple Watches – October 29, 2015
Strategy Analytics: Apple Watch sells 4.5 million units in Q315, takes 74% global smartwatch market share – October 28, 2015
Apple Watch users are abandoning traditional watches – September 15, 2015
Over 1 million Apple Watches already sold in China – September 3, 2015
Apple Watch already dominates smart-wearables market, says IDC – August 28, 2015
IDC estimates Apple sold 3.6 million Apple Watch units in Q2 – August 27, 2015
Best Buy CEO: Apple Watch demand is ‘so strong’ that we’re expanding sales to all 1,050 stores – August 25, 2015
Swiss watch exports decline most since 2009 – August 20, 2015
Apple Watch takes 88% of total smartwatch revenue – August 14, 2015
Apple Watch kills a entire industry in three months – August 12, 2015
U.S. wristwatch sales post biggest drop in seven years after Apple Watch debut – August 7, 2015
Apple Watch dominates smartwatches with 75% market share – July 28, 2015
Juniper Research: Apple is world’s #1 smartwatch maker – July 23, 2015
Canalys: Apple ships 4.2 million Apple Watches in Q2 to become world’s top wearables vendor – July 21, 2015
Apple Watch satisfaction is unprecedented at 97%; beats original iPhone and iPad – July 20, 2015
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
I wouldn’t accept a free iWatch.
Why?
Probably because you don’t have a heart worth monitoring!
Awww, such sweet, tolerant, and kind words.
And what do you expect? A worthless comment that doesn’t even get the name right? troll much?
Or if he is not a troll … then he is brain dead.
You could resell the Apple Watch in a “heartbeat.”
“Sweet & tolerant” are an anathema to heartless like you.
According to you I am heartless because I think you are a bigoted, narrow minded fanboy. Is a surgeon heartless for inflicting pain on a person to remove the malignancy that threatens their life? Consider me your physician, attempting to remove the malignant thinking that pervades your small mind.
Didn’t you play Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter movies? You certainly sound like and no doubt look like a rat.
I’m not as familiar with children’s story book as you are.
You mean the “children’s book” that’s considered actually juvenile fiction and adults read as well and was a multi-million dollar movie franchise?
I understand your unfamiliarity due to your shame of not being able to read and comprehend even true children’s level books. It fits right along with the quality of your adolescent, whiny & tantrum-prone posts.
Some adults do read children’s books. What’s wrong with that? I’m sure children’s books are perfectly fine for some adults. I’m sure children’s book are fine for you, too. Maybe, one day, you can graduate to more adult reading material.
Adults read juvenile fiction which is not “children’s books.” But then you don’t know much about anything. Based on your infantile level of knowledge and idiotic opinions expressed here I’d say you never got past “See Spot run.”
“According to you I am heartless because I think you are a bigoted, narrow minded fanboy.”
No, not at all. It’s because you are a font of incessant, empty, drivelling negagivity.
You seem like such a sad, pathetic little boy. How old are you?
Please fuck off and get a life.
No but you ARE a fuck up. You know it, your family knows it, and if you had friends they’d know it too. Anyone who talks like you has a miserable life. Misery loves company, but it’s the only company you have.
And because an “iWatch” does not exist…
Thanks for the correction. Still, everyone else seemed able to catch my drift. You, however, seem a little late on the rebound.
What an unpleasant little piece of permanent pariah work you are. Get lost.
The truth can be unpleasant to those who live in ignorance.
Is that why you’re so unpleasant & ignorant then?
Oh, good one, bloody pecker. You are so imaginative and creative that you even mimic my posts. Tell me, can you not come up with an original thought?
You just repeated me again! Monkey see, monkey repeat. I guess copying just comes natural to Doofus University alumnus.
You need to worry about getting a free brain, cuz right now you’ve got one that was labeled “Abby Normal.”
Being the polar opposite of you is actually a compliment. Thanks.
Being bipolar perfectly describes you. You are a nasty piece of work. If you notice you are being routinely down voted here being the petulant and pustulant miserable little trollish turd you are.
The more you post the more I am glad that you don’t like me and the more I am glad that I am not like you.
No worries, everybody here doesn’t like you. For a damn good reason. You are the “Thomas Barrows” of MDN.
I like him.
Thanks Thomas! If anyone would questionably like clueless Poster Joe from Doofus, MO it would be you. Heh.
As you are Neru Phuyt of the planet.
As you are Nasty Pffft. Really original aren’t you? I know you must be going through a lot of richly deserved self-loathing right now. But as long as you continue to misbehave here we will treat you in kind.
You really are a slow learner.
Sticks ‘n stones. You must have graduated from Dullard University, with honors, for all the half-witticisms.
I do not need, require, seek, or desire your acceptance or approval.
Obviously you do or you wouldn’t be posting and engaging here.
Brilliant! Did you figure that out all by yourself or did you have adult help?
And you shall have none, nor from anyone else here.
Your comment is both redundant and immaterial.
Huh? Did someone just utter some sophistry laced inanities?
That’s the only way you DO communicate, while knuckle dragging.
It will be interesting to see if Apple keeps these price points for the Apple Watch 2. For an item like this, i think there is a huge psychological difference to buyers between spending $299 and $349.
In any case, my non-techie wife absolutely loves her watch (which she said she didn’t need), and wears it every day.
Is this the children’s’ room?