The Apple Watch Outsold Every Other Wearable Last Quarter

[DEAD7]

Cupertino captured 16 percent of the global marketshare and stole the wearables crown from Fitbit, which had a much less stellar quarter. Fitbit only shipped 2.9 million devices in Q1, 36 percent less than the 4.5 million units it moved in the first quarter of 2016. Even Xiaomi sold more devices, putting the beleaguered wearables-maker in third place. Those results are consistent with Apple's latest earnings report. The company said its Watch and TV sales jumped up 31 percent year-over-year, and head honcho Tim Cook said Watch sales have nearly doubled since last year. Neil Mawston, Strategy Analytics executive director, said Apple's Watch Series 2 has been selling well "due to enhanced styling, intensive marketing and a good retail presence."

The Apple Watch outsold every other wearable last quarter

 

[the cac mamba]

apple :scustrump:

 

[Geek Nasty]

Who wants to charge their watch every day? fukk apple watches. Honestly, my Apple stanning days are over. Everyone else has already caught up with what Apple has been doing. No point in paying the Apple tax.

I think they cripple old hardware on purpose too

 

[joeychizzle]

Who wants to charge their watch every day? fukk apple watches. Honestly, my Apple stanning days are over. Everyone else has already caught up with what Apple has been doing. No point in paying the Apple tax.

I think they cripple old hardware on purpose too

Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design and economics is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete (that is, unfashionable or no longer functional) after a certain period of time.[1] The rationale behind the strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle").[2]

Everything these days is made to fall apart in a few years breh. Our whole fukking society is becoming disposable. Even the fukking people.
Let's take a quick look at smartphones, for instance. How many good to flagship level smartphones can you buy with removable batteries?
Before, if your battery started losing its juice you'd just throw it in a drawer and cop a new one, and your shyt is back to day 1 status. But now.. we cop new phones every year or two.

Ain't that a bytch

 

[Geek Nasty]

Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design and economics is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete (that is, unfashionable or no longer functional) after a certain period of time.[1] The rationale behind the strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle").[2]

Everything these days is made to fall apart in a few years breh. Our whole fukking society is becoming disposable. Even the fukking people.
Let's take a quick look at smartphones, for instance. How many good to flagship level smartphones can you buy with removable batteries?
Before, if your battery started losing its juice you'd just throw it in a drawer and cop a new one, and your shyt is back to day 1 status. But now.. we cop new phones every year or two.

Ain't that a bytch

This goes beyond planned obsolescence. This is actively sabotaging hardware, not building with defective parts.

 

[joeychizzle]

This goes beyond planned obsolescence. This is actively sabotaging hardware, not building with defective parts.

I wouldn't even be surprised, to be honest. With all the shyt companies pull just to have nice creases on quarterly earnings they probably got a secret team on a secret floor in Apple HQ thinking about how to low key fukk up their old shyt so people have to spend a chunk of their cheque copping the new shyt.

Despicable really, but not unexpected.

Glad you got off the Apple train breh

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

apple :scustrump:

Is there anything you do like?

 

[the cac mamba]

Is there anything you do like?

 

[Maschine_Man]

Anyone thinking this type of behaviour is exclusive to Apple has been severely brainwashed.