More New Apple Watch Models Unveiled The Apple Watch Hermès collection wasn’t the only big news to come out of Wednesday’s press event. Soon you won’t have to put down ten grand to sport some Apple Watch gold on your wrist as a less expensive model will be in stores later this month. Going on sale September 16 is an Apple Sport model with a rose gold or gold colored alumin...
Fitbit Exec Disses Smartwatches As the market is flooded with more smartwatches promising to do a myriad of tasks, is there still a place for the plain old fitness band? Woody Scal, Fitbit’s chief revenue officer, says definitely “yes.” In an interview with Bloomberg Business, Scal made a case for why the smartwatch won’t be making the fitness band obsolete anytime in the n...
1M Apple Watches Sold in China Have you ever wondered exactly who is buying all those Apple Watches that the company claims to have sold when no one you know has purchased one? Thanks to a data analysis firm, now we know where at least a million of them have wound up. TalkingData monitored more than 80,000 mobile apps to estimate that over 1.07 million Apple Watches have been sold in China. How di...
Report Claims Apple Ships 3.6M Smartwatches Usually the first to toot its own horn, Apple has remained mum on exactly how many units of its smartwatch have been sold since the device went on sale earlier this year. Now a new report sheds some light on how well the Apple Watch has done in its first few months on the market. A new report from analysts at International Data Corp. claims that Apple sh...
Ralph Lauren to Market Smart Shirt When you hear the phrase “wearable devices” most of us think of smartwatches and fitness bands but the sky’s the limit when fashion designers start to create tech products. While wearables from high fashion brands have been pretty much restricted to predictable products like smart bracelets, Ralph Lauren is about to launch a new item that takes ...
No Appointment Necessary to Try Apple Watch First the Apple Watch was available only in a handful of exclusive boutiques around the world. Then it finally came to local Apple retail stores but an appointment was required to actually try one on. Now Apple has relaxed its demands one more time and is allowing potential customers to walk in off the street to try on the iconic smartwatch. This news co...
Apple Watch Could Grab 40% of Market by 2020 The latest report on the Apple Watch holds potentially ominous news for the makers of both fitness bands and traditional timepieces. Could the smartwatch gobble up a major slice of the marketing pie by 2020? A new report from Business Insider’s research arm BI Intelligence predicts that smartwatches in general and the Apple Watch in particular are...
Watch Sales Plunge in June June is a great month for graduations, weddings and summer vacations but not such a good time for watch sales. In June of 2015, sales of watches took their biggest drop in seven years—11 percent by value and 14 percent by units. So what happened? Fred Levin, an analyst for the market research firm NPD Group, cited several reasons for the plunge in sales. One major ...
Apple Watch Takes Place in Healthcare Industry Back when the iPad made its debut in 2010, a common question was, “Who really needs one of these anyway?” The answers came quickly and included law enforcement and medicine. The Apple tablet allowed doctors to access the charts of any patient immediately without dragging a pile of folders all over the hospital. Now hospitals are adopting t...
Special Edition Apple Watches Honor Russian Leaders If you’re a wealthy Russian who’s been considering the purchase of an Apple Watch but find the choice of models a bit boring, why not show your fealty to your favorite political figure with a very distinctive version? Elia Giacometti of luxury brand Caviar has designed a line of special edition Apple Watches that honor three of Russia...
Nico Gerard Pinnacle Offers Hybrid of Luxury Watch with Apple Watch Can’t decide on whether you want to buy the new Apple Watch or add another luxury timepiece to your collection? With the latest design from Nico Gerard you can have both on your wrist at the same time. The Nico Gerard Pinnacle line of watches combines the old and the new in one rather odd-looking package. The hybrid timepiec...
Apple Watch Coming to Best Buy August 7 Over the last few years, Best Buy stores have been one of the first retailers to stock the latest products from Apple but one new item has been conspicuously absent from their shelves. The Apple Watch has not been available in any of the Best Buy locations but that will be changing in a few days as the device is coming to 300 stores in the U.S. as well as th...