apple watch shipments declining since 2022
which should have been expected. after 10 years the market is saturated, and it’s a mature product that has had no killer feature to upgrade early for.
I’ve had an Apple Watch 5 since it came out and I see no reason to upgrade. The only thing I really dislike is the battery life but to fix that you’d need to get a Garmin or similar. So can’t think of a reason I would upgrade.
I have the first gen Apple Watch SE from half a decade ago and I haven’t been given a reason to upgrade to the SE 2, much less whatever flagship we’re up to now.
It’s also likely driven down by non stop paywalling of features. Consumers like myself are just exhausted. I am only looking for non paywalls devices going forward and if those go away, then I’m going to be done with smart devices. I can’t keep paying hundreds to a thousand dollars for a device only to not be able to get the features of that device unless I keep throwing money at a company. I know they have costs to maintain software and add features but I can’t have perpetual costs on everything I buy.
costs to maintain software and add features…
…and shareholders to please…
Arguably the bigger cost sink.
Most definitely.
They should try to make it cordless, so you don’t have to have the charger plugged in all the time 🤪
It’s a disposable watch. If shipment could just stop that would be great.
