Apple Watch – 20 million sold in 2017. #1 selling wearable

I am not at all surprised by the apple watch being number one. What I would be surprised with is if the Stryd app downloads broke 5k downloads. It’s not because it doesn’t work or anything like that; the people using the apple watch just don’t strike me as the type to be this deep into the running sector to even know what stryd is.

I’d wager most that would be using it at all already own a “Sportwatch” to use with it, either natively (v800 or suunto) via app (Garmin). Most “sport tech” tends to just sit within the sportwatch ecosystem and while the apple watch has those “features” it”s “smartwatch” first and everything else second.

Still, I guess people that might have owned a sportwatch and grown tired (or bored) with the nominally stripped-down approach they come with (via smart features), having the ability to pull out that Stryd and use it with a Major mainstream brand watch is good (especially for Stryd).

CES is almost here, let’s see how far any of the sportwatch manufacturers go this year to broaden their hold on the market-share.

@Justin I’m one of those “grown tired”. Had so many different sport watches from different manufactures… always so many promising features, always so many bugs and always so many limitations – I’m really tired of it. ?

Since several weeks I’m reading “every single” review about the AW3 and really considering™ to “give up” on the approach of a dedicated (high end) sport watch.

http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Apple_Watch_3