Last week it has been exactly a year since Apple began selling the first product, made without Steve jobs – “smart” watches Apple Watch. How is it that ustroistvom no queues and, more importantly, they still don’t have it on hand?! There is several good reasons. And the price, according to observers Delfi, is just one of an extensive list of “issues”.
1. The Apple Watch is slow
Many happy owners of the Apple Watch noted that even after the Apple watch OS 2 released with support for native apps, faster program and the watch did not work. For the device for 25 000 speed critical. If alerts browse faster on iPhone than on the clock — why would such a clock need? From the Apple Watch 2, which may, Apple will introduce this year, expect higher speed.
2. They don’t change life so, how much are
The main problem with this smartwatch is that they are certainly cool and interesting, but belong to the category of those products that are perfectly possible to do. Especially at their price which is about half of the new iPhone or iPhone difference between SE and iPhone 6S Plus. So the author of this article writes that the Apple Watch over a year of wearing, in fact, it has not changed her life.
3. The lack of good apps
There’s an inherent problem, again, all the “smart” hours and is closely linked with the point above — there are practically no apps for the Apple Watch, which would not be on the iPhone, or which would be considerably easier and healthier it is on the clock. In the case specifically with the Apple Watch situation is compounded by the fact that the watch is without an iPhone don’t work. And this brings us to our next problem…
4. Technical imperfections
Let’s be honest — the lack of GPS and inability to cause favor in the absence of a nearby iPhone are not pros. Apple Watch can’t even display the time continuously. That is, even with its main function to do so yourself. In this case, Apple for the past year engaged in “upsell” — sold for expensive (hundreds of dollars/euros) new straps for hours.
5. The battery does not always keep the whole day
Apple should learn from competitors, why they confidently hold a day’s charge and can even almost live weekend, but the American gadget should be charged every day. To learn — and to make the Apple Watch guaranteed 2 lived 24 hours from charge to charge (and preferably 30). In 2016 it is a necessity.
6. They are upset by inexperienced users
For many users the interface seems complicated watchOS, users are a variety of claims. The fact that the buttons on the watch perform different functions, or that they are not too convenient to use — serious, though not the only, claim.
7. It is still too early
Not boasting and stating a fact: the author refers to the category of those people who remember the world of mobile phones before the arrival of the iPhone. Perhaps the main reason why you don’t already have the Apple Watch is exactly the same, why the first version of iPhone bought not so many people. Apple took years to become a trendsetter in the world of smartphones, and a year later it is still too early to talk about the success or failure of the Apple Watch.
Really Apple watch if the numbers analysts are correct — sold two times better than the first iPhone, that is 12 million units to six million. However, one and a half times worse than the first iPad (19 million). But 20 times better than iPod (600 thousand). In General, the Apple Watch buried early.
Yes and the caravan Apple continues to go exactly to the very second, when dogs are barking critics — for the Apple price in hours $ 500 (suspended) 12 million units sold means $ 6 billion of revenue. And let in the first quarter, the company lost 11% of the market of smart hours – she’s still controlling share of 55%. What product have managed to break into the existing market and confidently to capture 50-60% in the first year?
True, that’s what the problem is (and this is perhaps the eighth reason) — before the advent of Apple Watch, the company itself has created markets and itself captured them. But if Akela has missed and some product was not particularly successful, it mercilessly shoved off a cliff. Corny, sure, but what is happening now with the Apple Watch — even the very presence of the cruel and justifiable criticism of the product! — best described by the hackneyed phrase “when Jobs was not like this”.
