Will The Apple Watch Dominate The Wearable Market? - Forbes

At least wait for the Apple watch figures to be released before you make that bold claim

Precisely why I can make that claim - until Apple says otherwise, Pebble is still the best selling smartwatch brand. If Apple wanted you to know how well their watch was selling they could have released sales figures long ago, as they usually love to to. Until then, it's all about the numbers we know.

With iOS it is all Apple. This is why they could dominate.

That's precisely why they never will.

More people trust Apple for their phone than any other phone manufacturer, Android may dominate but it takes 4-5 phone manufacturers to do that.

LOL, no. That's simply not true. Take a look here. Samsung dominates everyone by a big margin.

  1. Do you know what the best selling smartphone of all time is? Nope, it's not an iPhone, it's the Samsung Galaxy S4 at 80 million sold. The iPhone that year was the 5s, and it only sold 52 million.

  2. Competition is a good thing, you're trying to spin a very good thing, into a bad one. The fact that you have no choice but to go to Apple if you want an iOS device is a terrible thing and one of a million reasons not to use their platform.

  3. This premise means literally nothing because the only iOS phone is the iPhone. If other companies could make iOS phones than Apple's hardware percentages within it's OS share would drop.

Even an Apple hater like you has to admit that more people are likely to trust Apple long term than Pebble

No, I don't have to admit that, in fact, I think that's an absolutly ridiculous premise. Apple does not care about their users, and with each passing day, new users are realizing this and jumping ship.

Know how Apple has restricted notification actions for any 3rd party device except the iWatch in order to try and give it a leg up on competition? Know how to it recently took Apple months to publish a simple periodic update to the classic Pebble app, and weeks to publish the Pebble Time app?

Things like this are making people lose their faith in Apple and rightfully slow. They recently lost hundreds of iPhone users over these two things alone - these people are jumping to Android where these sort of problems simply do not exist. That's why their market share is dropping every month.

Pebble is a company with one product, one mission, one goal. They are very focused and 100% of their resources are devoted to this. Apple can afford to make products that flop. Pebble can't. That's the difference and that's why it's much easier to trust Pebble than a giant corporation like Apple.

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