First Phil Schiller refuting poor MacBook Pro sales, and now this!? Usually Apple stays silent, but now is outspoken? That means one thing, fear, weakness, doubt. The company is ripping itself apart. Longtime employees have been leaving and or are fired. Divisions are being shutdown. Quality is down, reliance on intel and other third party vendors CONTINUE to slow down and weaken Apple. third party vendors relationships with Apple have becomes strained and wearing down. You can very easily tell what products do well at Apple. Pro hint: the products that get regular and frequent updates and attention from Apple are the number one money makers. Right now that appears to be only services, and iPhone and tablets. Oh and soon Dongles! Tim Cook LOVES Dongles!
Cooks use of the word sell through indicates that they may well have had a bad quarter last quarter. Sell through is sales from channel
Doesn't sell-though mean actual sales to consumers? And yeah the quarter before the holiday quarter when new watches were barely available might have been a weak quarter. So what? We all know that certain Apple products are more seasonal in nature and will have bigger sales during the holidays.
First Phil Schiller refuting poor MacBook Pro sales, and now this!? Usually Apple stays silent, but now is outspoken? That means one thing, fear, weakness, doubt. The company is ripping itself apart. Longtime employees have been leaving and or are fired. Divisions are being shutdown. Quality is down, reliance on intel and other third party vendors CONTINUE to slow down and weaken Apple. third party vendors relationships with Apple have becomes strained and wearing down. You can very easily tell what products do well at Apple. Pro hint: the products that get regular and frequent updates and attention from Apple are the number one money makers. Right now that appears to be only services, and iPhone and tablets. Oh and soon Dongles! Tim Cook LOVES Dongles!
You forgot the plague of locust.
Apple doesn’t always stay silent when asked a direct question from either a journalist, or customer emailing one of their executives. In this case, Reuters asked if sales were doing badly, Apple responded by saying, 'Actually, no.' But they still didn't give out any sales figures. In fact, most of the time Apple does respond when it looks like people are too dumb to work out the answer for themselves.
"Pro hint: the products that get regular and frequent updates and attention from Apple are the number one money makers. Right now that appears to be only services, and iPhone and tablets."
I assume IDC has some form of reasonably accurate retail sales metrics (if not, they shouldn't be in the business of writing notes such as this). Everything is relative and I'm sure watch sales are doing OK - we're talking about Apple products after all - but I don't think Watch sales are burning up and I agree with IDC that it's a competitive market. The fact that Cook felt the need to reply I think says more about his perceived personal status than about Apple. Really think it's time for fresh blood there.
Unsurprisingly, you assume wrong. IDC's method of forecasting is one step above casting bones into a cauldron. The main criteria for any IDC prediction is to try and demonstrate that their previous prediction was accurate, so all you end up with is a series of inaccurate predictions. The worst thing that could happen to a research outfit like IDC is for people to find out that their historical data is incorrect; so they massage the numbers to preserve this illusion above everything else.
I wonder if IDC et al ever have to backup or explain their figures when proved so wildly wrong. A company can be fined if it's falsely reported sales or earnings, I see this as no different as it manipulates the stock market based on lies.
I imagine they have a multi-page disclaimer. Or they do what that 'well-connected' analyst fella does: when proved wrong, just find some bizarre reason like 'Apple changed their plans at the very last minute and decided not to release a phone with a 15-inch screen.'
Cooks use of the word sell through indicates that they may well have had a bad quarter last quarter. Sell through is sales from channel
While this is true, do you see a sudden jump in sell through for a product that has existed for a few years for no reason. Cook wouldn't have commented on this unless he was confident. I know of someone who just bought one. People seem to like them. Especially since OS 3 and the new faster watches.
Bought the Nike+ model a few weeks ago, and it continue to surprise me, though not as much when it let me take a phone call from my iPhone which was… well at the time I wasn't sure where it was, but I know it was in the house somewhere.
I think the problem you have with the Apple Watch is not that people dislike them (I mean, if you don't like it then just don't buy it), it's that people think that if they can somehow get it to fail then Apple will have no choice but to start focussing on Macs again. Yes, it's a long shot, but people aren't always that bright.
Cooks use of the word sell through indicates that they may well have had a bad quarter last quarter. Sell through is sales from channel
While this is true, do you see a sudden jump in sell through for a product that has existed for a few years for no reason. Cook wouldn't have commented on this unless he was confident. I know of someone who just bought one. People seem to like them. Especially since OS 3 and the new faster watches.
Bought the Nike+ model a few weeks ago, and it continue to surprise me, though not as much when it let me take a phone call from my iPhone which was… well at the time I wasn't sure where it was, but I know it was in the house somewhere.
I think the problem you have with the Apple Watch is not that people dislike them (I mean, if you don't like it then just don't buy it), it's that people think that if they can somehow get it to fail then Apple will have no choice but to start focussing on Macs again. Yes, it's a long shot, but people aren't always that bright.
You just described half of MacRumors. The other half just want Apple itself to fail. Children.
I'd have to go with Tim on this. I live in Newfoundland and am really surprised how many apple watches I see out in th wild. I have series 2 and paired with the new watch OS,it's a fantastic device. I usually get 2.5+ Days out of the battery. The battery issue was never a problem for me anyway as it goes on the charger at night anyway.
Last night I visited Apple's first retail store, in Tysons, VA. There were many customers looking at iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro... but zero customers looking at Watch.
i love my Watch and use it daily, but Apple still needs to find a way to build broad enthusiasm for this category.
I'd have to go with Tim on this. I live in Newfoundland and am really surprised how many apple watches I see out in th wild. I have series 2 and paired with the new watch OS,it's a fantastic device. I usually get 2.5+ Days out of the battery. The battery issue was never a problem for me anyway as it goes on the charger at night anyway.
agree. i suspect sales are up. i ordered two SS apple watches as gifts and both are delayed by two weeks
I obviously cannot speak for anybody else, but I still like my first gen Apple Watch, and continue to wear/use it everyday.
I particularly like it with the OS 3 upgrade.
I think the Watch will be fine, so long as Apple keeps making regular, incremental updates.
My ongoing gripe with Apple these days is that making regular, incremental updates seems beyond their capacity for far too much of their product line. Hopefully they'll get that sorted out.
The melancholy associated with Apple Watch sales and possibly to some extent Apple sales in general may in part be attributable to the unease surrounding the tense and historical election, its rabid preliminaries and the uncertainty going forward with the political dynamics here and abroad. A multi faceted socio/psycho Malaise that has stopped many in their tracks. Not me though, I am enjoying my Apple tools and toys regardless. Best to all on all sides of that last diatribe!
I think there are legitimate complaints about the state of Apple, but I think you're onto something there.
I think that in both the US and Europe, people feel very much let down by political leaders and are grasping desperately for something better. But in grasping desperately for something better I fear we will all get something far worse instead. Unhappy times.
Last night I visited Apple's first retail store, in Tysons, VA. There were many customers looking at iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro... but zero customers looking at Watch.
i love my Watch and use it daily, but Apple still needs to find a way to build broad enthusiasm for this category.
Of course there is no one looking at Watch because the Watch is in a display case. The other products can be touched and played around with. A lot of times when I go into my Apple store the product tables are quite dead and everyone is at the back by the Genius Bar.
I think the problem you have with the Apple Watch is not that people dislike them (I mean, if you don't like it then just don't buy it), it's that people think that if they can somehow get it to fail then Apple will have no choice but to start focussing on Macs again. Yes, it's a long shot, but people aren't always that bright.
Or until Tim Cook is fired. It's amazing to me how not releasing Watch sales figures means the product is a flop yet Amazon can get away with not ever releasing figures on anything and their stock is at record highs. No one says the Kindle or Echo are flops even though Amazon releases no sales data on either yet Watch is because Apple won't give us sales figures. I don't get how that logic works.
Cooks use of the word sell through indicates that they may well have had a bad quarter last quarter. Sell through is sales from channel
Great comment on the sell through. Watch sales probably were stagnating and picked up due to faster watch os3 and better watch 2. IDC metrics (such as they are) probably lag reality by at least a quarter.
Lets get real though. If the optics of this product were comparable to phones Apple would release numbers. They don't. The real heyday of the watch is yet to come, maybe not starting until 2018.
Last night I visited Apple's first retail store, in Tysons, VA. There were many customers looking at iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro... but zero customers looking at Watch.
i love my Watch and use it daily, but Apple still needs to find a way to build broad enthusiasm for this category.
The problem with anecdotal evidence..... I was at Tyson's Corner on Sunday night and I didn't even go to the Apple Store. I went to Nordstrom and Shake Shack. I walked by the Microsoft Store and they didn't have enough customers to organize a game of checkers. What does all that tell you about sales?
(Nordstrom was busy with a holiday shopping event for cardholders who spent enough money during the year. I'd rather go to the dentist but my wife wouldn't miss it for the world. On the plus side - free wine. I skipped out for Shake Shack.)
(Nordstrom was busy with a holiday shopping event for cardholders who spent enough money during the year. I'd rather go to the dentist but my wife wouldn't miss it for the world. On the plus side - free wine. I skipped out for Shake Shack.)
One might assume an organization like IDC would be held accountable for its research but I’m guessing its clients pay well for FUD that can be used to their advantage against a competitor or other analysts. The stock market is based on FUD and always has been.
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Apple doesn’t always stay silent when asked a direct question from either a journalist, or customer emailing one of their executives. In this case, Reuters asked if sales were doing badly, Apple responded by saying, 'Actually, no.' But they still didn't give out any sales figures. In fact, most of the time Apple does respond when it looks like people are too dumb to work out the answer for themselves.
Well, this is so unfair, isn´t it?
Unsurprisingly, you assume wrong. IDC's method of forecasting is one step above casting bones into a cauldron. The main criteria for any IDC prediction is to try and demonstrate that their previous prediction was accurate, so all you end up with is a series of inaccurate predictions. The worst thing that could happen to a research outfit like IDC is for people to find out that their historical data is incorrect; so they massage the numbers to preserve this illusion above everything else.
Here, educate yourself:
http://fortune.com/2014/07/28/pc-sales-estimates-how-the-sausage-gets-made/
and then marvel at how no one mentions it when time is called on predictions like this:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2504045/apple-ios/windows-phone-will-pass-iphone-by-2016--idc-says.html
I imagine they have a multi-page disclaimer. Or they do what that 'well-connected' analyst fella does: when proved wrong, just find some bizarre reason like 'Apple changed their plans at the very last minute and decided not to release a phone with a 15-inch screen.'
Bought the Nike+ model a few weeks ago, and it continue to surprise me, though not as much when it let me take a phone call from my iPhone which was… well at the time I wasn't sure where it was, but I know it was in the house somewhere.
I think the problem you have with the Apple Watch is not that people dislike them (I mean, if you don't like it then just don't buy it), it's that people think that if they can somehow get it to fail then Apple will have no choice but to start focussing on Macs again. Yes, it's a long shot, but people aren't always that bright.
i love my Watch and use it daily, but Apple still needs to find a way to build broad enthusiasm for this category.
I think the Watch will be fine, so long as Apple keeps making regular, incremental updates.
My ongoing gripe with Apple these days is that making regular, incremental updates seems beyond their capacity for far too much of their product line. Hopefully they'll get that sorted out.
I think there are legitimate complaints about the state of Apple, but I think you're onto something there.
I think that in both the US and Europe, people feel very much let down by political leaders and are grasping desperately for something better. But in grasping desperately for something better I fear we will all get something far worse instead. Unhappy times.
Or until Tim Cook is fired. It's amazing to me how not releasing Watch sales figures means the product is a flop yet Amazon can get away with not ever releasing figures on anything and their stock is at record highs. No one says the Kindle or Echo are flops even though Amazon releases no sales data on either yet Watch is because Apple won't give us sales figures. I don't get how that logic works.
Lets get real though. If the optics of this product were comparable to phones Apple would release numbers. They don't. The real heyday of the watch is yet to come, maybe not starting until 2018.
(Nordstrom was busy with a holiday shopping event for cardholders who spent enough money during the year. I'd rather go to the dentist but my wife wouldn't miss it for the world. On the plus side - free wine. I skipped out for Shake Shack.)