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Apple Sells a Million Watches

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday April 14 2015, @04:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the apple-does-no-wrong dept.

takyon writes:

The Register, MarketWatch, and Mashable are reporting an estimated 1 million sales of Apple's wrist augment based on Slice Intelligence's analysis of ereceipt data. Demand has been strong enough to push back deliveries by weeks, and "Apple is set to sell all of its production volume for the first three months".

Putting those figures together, that means Apple could have shifted 1.24 million watches on its first day of preorders on Friday. How does that stack up in Apple history? Back in 2007, it took the company 74 days to sell its one millionth iPhone, and it took two years to get to that milestone with the iPod. [It took Apple 28 days to sell 1 million iPads.]

Apple seems to have underestimated short-term demand for its latest product, and may intend to sell 20 million Apple Watches in the first year of availability.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday April 14 2015, @05:47AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday April 14 2015, @05:47AM (#170235)

    Wow... just wow.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @06:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @06:36AM (#170242)

    They have plenty of money to waste. They're wealthy because they're idiots.