Report: Apple ships 800,000 cellular-enabled Apple Watch units in Q3
"Strong demand for the LTE-enabled Apple Watch Series 3 has dispelled service providers’ doubts about the cellular smartwatch not appealing to customers. In China, customers with high expectations are being driven away by the service disruption fiasco in the country. Besides bringing in more stock, operators should work on improving their remote service provisioning systems to cater for the expected higher demand in Q4"-Jason Low, analyst, Canalys
Overall, 17.3 million units were shipped during the third quarter, down 2%. Smartphone shipments were strong while basic bands fared poorly.
Apple led the way in Q3 shipments of wearable band devices
source: Canalys
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15 Comments
2. androapplephone
Posts: 42; Member since: Oct 04, 2011
Did not expect that really
posted on Nov 14, 2017, 10:58 PM 1
3. Derekjeter
Posts: 1449; Member since: Oct 27, 2011
Just like the iPhone X, the series is an over priced Apple product. The iPhone 7 Plus is enough for 99% of Apple users. Seriously, there’s nothing that the X or the 8 have that’s worth that money.
The series 3 is a huge mistake, you don’t need LTE on the watch, you already carry your phone with you all day. It’s not like you can actually do everything on the watch that you would do on a phone. Like I said before, you do need a watch to avoid pulling out the phone every single time, and if you do get the series 2. It’s $280 at BestBuy and will be cheaper on Black Friday.
posted on Nov 14, 2017, 10:59 PM 0
16. khanhbee90
Posts: 17; Member since: Sep 03, 2015
How enough? You can not know others' demand. The demand of rich people is much different poor people, of course. Someone buy thousands-dollar shoes, shirt... just because they like it :))
posted on Nov 15, 2017, 12:02 PM 0
4. Arch_Fiend
Posts: 3938; Member since: Oct 03, 2015
If Samsung had more App support with Tizen then I would already own a S3 frontier, I'm waiting for Google to launch a pixel watch, maybe then they will get serous about making Android Wear the best it can be, especially in battery life because lets be honest the smart watches with good battery life all use some custom OS that isn't Android Wear.
posted on Nov 14, 2017, 11:16 PM 0
5. cnour
Posts: 2305; Member since: Sep 11, 2014
Apple the king in everything....this is the fruit of being an innovative company.
Keep it up Apple.
posted on Nov 15, 2017, 12:46 AM 4
7. ColinW
Posts: 412; Member since: Jun 04, 2014
If Apple is an innovative company the smartphone market is dead. Apple has been a copier not innovator for the last 4 years, just look at the iPhone catch-up edition, sorry the X for proof!
posted on Nov 15, 2017, 1:40 AM 1
14. MarvzIsFallen
Posts: 646; Member since: Aug 11, 2017
Because most android wanted to get the latest feature as this is the only way they can attract consumers. Apple doesn’t need to, they have the best ecosystem and loyal customers. They have the best after support service.
posted on Nov 15, 2017, 6:07 AM 1
9. mootu
Posts: 1373; Member since: Mar 16, 2017
Sjipped means nothing, they can ship 800.000 and have 700,000 still sat in Apple stores waiting to be sold.
Apple just loves to tell how many items they have shipped to make the figures seem higher than they actually are.
posted on Nov 15, 2017, 4:33 AM 0
6. HillaryClinton2020
Posts: 190; Member since: Feb 08, 2017
Without Samsung, Android wear will be the underdog. Apple watch has no competition in smartwatch world.
posted on Nov 15, 2017, 1:24 AM 2
