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Media: due to low demand, the suppliers are overcrowded components for the Apple Watch

Stocks Apple Watch component remain high due to lower than planned demand for “smart” watches, reports the Taiwan resource DigiTimes citing sources in the Apple supply chain.

Producers hope for a revival of demand, as warehouses now filled with accessories for the device. It is alleged that Apple Watch sales were lower than expected customer. The source States that sales of smart watches in the U.S. market in the past month declined sharply.

Estimated Slice Intelligence, in the first week Apple could implement in the U.S. approximately 1.5 million “smart” watches. That is daily processed about 200,000 orders. However, after that the demand rapidly declined. So, by the beginning of may Apple daily was implemented in the United States about 20 000 hours. Compared to the first week of availability gadget sales have dropped by 90%. Apple did not say the number of units sold in the quarterly report.

According to representatives of the supply chain, inventories of the components of the Apple Watch will remain high until September, when it may begin to show a rise in demand associated with the beginning of the new academic year. Then it is expected the rise of traditional sales, which accompanied the end of the year.

Some analysts because of the rumors about low demand reduced the forecast for the implementation of the Apple Watch for 2015 half from 30 to 15 million devices.

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