From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) appears to believe that it can sell roughly thirty times as many smartwatches per month as all its rival OEMs on Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android Wear platform did combined in 2014 monthly averages.
That bold goal comes in spite of a reportedly dwindling featureset, a disappointing one-day battery life (in line with Apple's initial launch comments, but less than some Apple fans optimistically hoped for), and a relative high price tag ($349 USD and up), which on average is is between $50 and $150 USD more expensive than competitive Android offerings.
According to market researcher Canalys, a total of 720,000 Android Wear devices shipped in 2014 -- an average of roughly 60,000 smartwatches shipped per month for all Android Wear watchmakers. Apple, by contrast believes it can sell between 1.7 and 2 million smartwatches per month on average over the first three months of Apple watch availability, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.
View: Article @ Source Site
