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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @01:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @01:23PM (#170376)

    Despite the (bought) hype I am still not interested. If you ask my wife I am mr gadget too. My gadget purchases as I have got older have taken on a 'will I still be noodling around with it next month' layer of consideration. In this case I can safely say no.

    ~400 million in sales. I may be interested in their stock.

    This is a v1 product. It shows. In 2 years when people throw these in the garbage and buy v3, that one may be interesting to look at.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:27PM (#170424)

    Yes. It was the second-generation iPhone that introduced the App Store.