In just two months , the Apple Watch has reportedly need a overlooking spark advance in the smartwatch market with an estimated 2.79 million gross revenue .
That ’s according toSlice , a fellowship that offers e - mail reception tracking to consumer andturns the datum into marketplace inquiry . Slice ’s Apple Watch sale estimate is based on a control panel of 2 million the great unwashed , more than 20,000 of whom purchased an Apple Watch by mid - June , Reuters describe .
most one out of five Apple Watch buyers are also pick up a spare band to go with their $ 350 - and - up smartwatch purchase , Slice estimates . Apple ’s black Sport band is supposedly the most popular alternative — both as the coterie - in band and as a $ 49 add - on — while the $ 149 Milanese loop come in second stead . Not surprisingly , the canonic Apple Watch Sport has been the considerably - selling poser in Slice ’s depth psychology .
By comparability , Samsung shipped 1.2 million smartwatches in all of 2014,according to Statista . Pebble reached the1 million lifetime sale markin February after nearly two twelvemonth on the market , and Google ’s Android Wear weapons platform as a whole ship on 720,000 smartwatches in 2014,according to Canalys . Unless their sales have accelerated rapidly , it ’s probable that Apple is way out in front .
Still , Slice ’s flesh should be treated with a piece of skepticism . As John Gruber at Daring Fireballpointed outthe last prison term Slice estimated Apple Watch cut-rate sale , the methodology is strange and there ’s no planetary house of Slice essay anything like this with other Apple products . That means it ’s impossible to judge the company ’s truth , and it ’ll remain that way for as long as Apple decline to give away Watch sales on its own .
Why this matters : Apple still has a long way to go , of course , as even a few million smartwatch sales is nothing compared to thetens of millions of iPhonesApple betray every quarter . turn a smartwatch into an crucial accoutrement is a huge unrealized opportunity ; all we can say for now is that Apple seems to be doing a good task at it than its rivals .
