No One Is Buying Smartwatches Anymore

[DEAD7]

Remember how smartwatches were supposed to be the next big thing? About that... The market intelligence firm IDC reported on Monday that smartwatch shipments are down 51.6 percent year-over-year for the third quarter of 2016. This is bad news for all smartwatch vendors (except maybe Garmin), but it's especially bad for Apple, which saw shipments drop 71.6 percent, according to the IDC report Apple is still the overall smartwatch market leader, with an estimated 41.3-percent of the market, but IDC estimates it shipped only 1.1 million Apple Watches in Q3 2016, compared with 3.9 million in 2015. To a degree, that's to be expected, since the new Apple Watch Series 2 came out at the tail-end of the quarter. But the news is still a blow, when you consider how huge the Apple Watch hype was just 18 months ago.

 

[Matt504]

they'll be back up next year

 

[Standing on business]

With car prices sky rocketing, rent doubling and salaries not going up, maybe people will stop buying unnecessary shyt

 

[88m3]

if you're an adult and wear a digital watch

 

[Tom Foolery]

Sounds like a recession if you ask me.

 

[the cac mamba]

gayest idea ever

 

[acri1]

Never really got this whole concept to be honest.

What exactly is there that a smartwatch can do that a smartphone can't do better?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

they need better battery lives and more phone independence.

 

[FaTaL]

How do you text with those little azz digits?

 

[Matt504]

How do you text with those little azz digits?

apple watch has a feature where you text by drawing the letters with your finger, it's pretty nice and accurate. I rarely use it though.

 

[FaTaL]

apple watch has a feature where you text by drawing the letters with your finger, it's pretty nice and accurate. I rarely use it though.

Sounds like too much effort

 

[Matt504]

Sounds like too much effort

maybe if you have a long reply.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Never really got this whole concept to be honest.

What exactly is there that a smartwatch can do that a smartphone can't do better?

Stay on your wrist

 

[FaTaL]

Stay on your wrist

It's a good way to keep track of your kids though

 

[Red Shield]

Don't see how they thought this would ever be a major thing past the apple cultists