As usual, every time Apple presents its financial results, it only focuses on breaking down the sales of its flagship devices: iPhone, iPad and Mac. Despite having been on the market for more than two and a half years, Apple still does not offer official figures on the sales of the Apple Watch, so only we can base ourselves on the figures published by market analysts.
At the last earnings call, Apple announced that Apple Watch sales had grown by 50% compared to the previous year, but again did not offer concrete sales figures. The firm Canalys, affirms that the units that Apple could have put on the market for the Apple Watch would be close to 4 million, 3,9 to be more exact.
According to Canalys, the LTE model, a model that is only available in a very small group of countries, It has become the most popular model of the entire range of Apple wearables, with a demand that has surprised both Apple and the telephone operators, with which it is necessary, yes or yes, to manage the model with an LTE connection.
Canalys claims that of the LTE model, the most expensive of the entire range of available Apple Watch models, Apple would have sold 800.000 units of total sales, which have amounted to 3,9 million units. Taking into account that the last quarter corresponds to the months of July, August and September, and that this model came out in mid-September, it is a success that so many devices have been sold in such a short time.
The LTE model arrived with a serious malfunction to the market as it was hooked looking for known networks to connect and save battery, when there was none nearby. In doing so, it deactivated the LTE connection, remaining only as a traditional watch of a lifetime, with which to see the time and date. Apple was quick to recognize the problem and released an update to fix it within days of its release.
But it is not the only problem that the Apple Watch Series 3 LTE has had, since in China, without going any further, the government has disabled the operation of all these devices, since according to some rumors, he could not assure that the legitimate owner of the line was the one who is using the Apple Watch at the time ... It is clear that the conspiratorial paranoias of some governments go beyond what we can consider reasonable, even more in China, where there are no terrorism problems.