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Apple Watch user satisfaction stays strong at 94%

Apple Watch user satisfaction stays strong at 94%

“The latest Wristly survey confirms an astonishing 94 percent of existing Apple Watch customers are still satisfied with their devices,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld.

“That’s a big deal, even though Apple Watch sales have reportedly slowed pending the fall software update,” Evans writes. “Apple isn’t the only watchmaker feeling the flatness, Swiss watch industry exports fell…

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Apple Watch: Why let facts cloud the debate?

Apple Watch: Why let facts cloud the debate?

“Apple products excite imaginations, I’d even venture that iDevices are psychotoxic and drive unbalanced members of the kommentariat to cast off their moorings. And of all of Apple’s devices so far, the Watch has induced the most extreme symptoms of the affliction,” Jean-Louis Gassée writes for Monday Note. “This was due, in part, to expectations that were set by the iPhone, which rose from 2.3M…

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Can’t leave home without it: 72% would turn back home to retrieve their Apple Watch

Can’t leave home without it: 72% would turn back home to retrieve their Apple Watch

“Our research partner Ben Bajarin was discussing consumer adoption trends with colleagues at a recent industry event when the topic of how to measure true satisfaction came up,” Bernard Desarnauts reports for Wristly. “This was the inspiration for our first question for the week: would you turn around and head back home after realizing you forgot to put on Apple Watch?”

“Where only 4%…

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Apple Watch wearers check their smartwatch 60 to 80 times a day

Apple Watch wearers check their smartwatch 60 to 80 times a day

“Much has been said over the last few years about how smartphones have disrupted the PC,” Bernard Desarnauts reports for Wristly.

“When one looks at it through the job to be done filter, we understand that the PC is defined by activities and tasks that are measured in hours such as writing an article, building a financial model, playing an online game, etc.,” Desarnauts reports. “The…

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Why Apple Watch is is eerily reminiscent of iPhone

Why Apple Watch is is eerily reminiscent of iPhone

“Only 3% of people who bought Apple Watch cited that the primary reason they bought it was as a watch. It is eerily reminiscent of the fact that the actual phone capability of the iPhone doesn’t matter much,” Bernard Desarnauts reports for Wristly. “In that light, the broad range of reasons for buying the Apple Watch falls within three distincts themes: as a device that supports health and…

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Wristly: State of the Apple Watch

Wristly published their first edition of “The State of the Apple Watch” today. It’s an in depth report on the Apple Watch, the way people are using it, how satisfied users are with the device and more. The report nicely summarises a lot of the organisation’s findings from previous reports and adds more insights based on the data.

The report is full of usage metrics such as which features are used more or less by users than they expected to, the impact Apple Watch has made on some users health and their most recent findings on how often people wear their Apple Watch. Wristly found that 86% of respondents wore their Apple Watch “all day every day” and 10% wore it “most days most of the time”. Amazingly only 1% of respondents claim to have stopped wearing their Apple Watch.

The number of participants for the reports has grown over the past few months. Their first report used data from only 40 participants and their most recent report used 1500. While these do not make up a significant user base of the Apple Watch[1], it does provide some solid user data regarding the Apple Watch and it has made for some interesting insights. I look forward to seeing how the state of the Apple Watch will evolve over the coming weeks and months after the release of watchOS 2.

You can download the first edition of the State of the Apple Watch here.

It is estimated that Apple sold around 3 million Watches from April to July of 2015 so 1500 participants is a small slither of the Apple Watch user population.  ↩

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Wristly find Dark Sky to be Most Popular Apple Watch App

Today Wristly, the organisation behind a lot of the Apple Watch statistics coming out recently, posted its seventeenth report on Apple Watch. This weeks report focused on how people use their Apple Watch. One of the key highlights of the report is that Dark Sky was found to be the most popular app for Apple Watch among those that were polled, with Overcast and Fantastical coming second and third respectively. It was also pointed out that apps in the weather category seemed to be the most popular overall.

Wristly did go on to list what their survey said were the ten most popular apps for Apple Watch. Two of the apps I was surprised to see on this list were Twitter and Instagram since I don’t see social media apps like this to be a natural fit on wearable devices since I find it more comfortable to read my Twitter timeline on my phone rather than my watch.

The report also confirmed something we pretty much all assumed: the watch is not a consumption device. The most popular type of consumption through Apple Watch was streaming music, which only 29% of people said they did either weekly or daily. The number of people consuming other media goes further downhill from there; 88% of respondents said they never or seldom view synced photos on their Watch.

There are a variety of other findings as well such as that 31% of respondents use a bluetooth headset with their Apple Watch, 77% of respondents own an Apple TV as well as an Apple Watch and various insights into the Apple Music usage such as of the 71% of respondents that have started an Apple Music trial, 55% will definitely pay the subscription.

As always I haven’t gone through all of the results, I’ve simply discussed the ones that caught my interest. You can read the full report over at Medium.

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Is Apple Pay the killer app for Apple Watch?

Is Apple Pay the killer app for Apple Watch?

“Apple Watch and Apple Pay are bringing the mobile wallet to millions of consumers who are already eager to use the solutions more often in more places, so is Apple Pay the killer app for Apple Watch?” Jonny Evans wonders for Computerworld.

“Consumers certainly seem to love the freedom of the solution,” Evans writes. “It looks like Apple Pay is winning on Apple Watch. Asking 1,000…

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