The Pebble Time just landed at Best Buy but it will soon have to share the shelf space with one more competitor. Best Buy USA yesterday announced that it will soon become the first national retailer, other than Apple Stores, to carry the Apple Watch. Starting on August 7th, the national retailer will offer “one of the year’s most talked […]
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Apple watchOS 2.0 beta 4 seeded to Apple Watch developers
Apple announced watchOS 2.0 for its new Apple Watch at WWDC 2015. Along with support for native apps and a new nightstand mode, the software update will bring a number of new features to the Apple Watch. With the public release set for sometime this fall, Apple continues to release beta updates to developers to allow them to get their […]
Apple Watch captures 75% of smartwatch market share in Q2 2015
Apple may not have disclosed Apple Watch sale numbers yesterday when it announced its Q3 FY2015 financial results but Strategy Analytics estimates that the company shipped 4 million smartwatches during Q2. With the overall global smartwatch market hitting a record high 5.3 million units, Apple accounted for a dominant 75% of the market despite the Apple Watch making its debut during the […]
Apple Watch sales numbers not revealed in Q3 FY2015 financial results
Apple today announced its Q3 FY2015 financial results after the close of U.S. markets. Quarterly revenues came in at US$49.6 billion with net profits of US$10.7 billion. Compared to the same quarter a year ago, revenues were up 33 percent and earnings per share up 45 percent, impressive numbers even if they did not meet analyst expectations. “We had an […]
Gold-plated Apple Watch Sport coming soon?
Apple is making a play in the luxury watch space with its exclusive yellow and rose-gold Apple Watch Edition that starts at US$10,000. If KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is correct with his latest prediction, the company is now looking to bring that gold finish to its much more inexpensive Apple Watch Sport (which starts at US$349). Rather than a solid 18K […]
Samsung Display to supply flexible displays for Apple Watch 2?
A report last month suggested that LG Display would once again be Apple’s sole supplier for flexible P-OLED displays for the next-generation Apple Watch. It now appears that Apple has changed its mind and will have at least two suppliers instead. The Korea Herald reports that both Samsung Display and LG Display will provide it with displays next time around. […]
Apple Watch sales closing on 3 million unit mark
While Apple has yet to officially announce how many Apple Watches it has sold to date, market research firm Slice has calculated that Apple has sold about 2.79 million of them as of mid-June. Slice uses e-mail receipt data from some 2 million online shoppers in the U.S. to make its analysis. In this case, it found that more than 20,000 people […]
FaceTime video camera among features planned for Apple Watch 2
The Apple Watch has barely begun to land in Apple Stores that rumours of the features Apple plans on adding for the next generation Apple Watch are gathering steam. According to 9to5Mac sources, the Apple Watch 2 will launch in 2016 with some new features. Perhaps the most interesting new feature could be the addition of a video camera into […]