KGI: The 2016 Apple Watch will be a "Model S"; sales will drop 25-30%

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A recent rumor claimed that this year there would be a Apple Watch with a thickness 40% less. Hope is the last thing to be lost, but according to the world's most successful Apple analyst, Ming Chi Kuo, the apple smartwatch that will arrive in 2016 will be an "S" update to the model presented in 2014 along with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. A update "S" It involves internal improvements, which are sometimes important, but maintaining the design of the previous model.

Kuo says that those who are waiting for Apple to launch a finer model will have to wait for 2017. The analyst thinks that the company that Tim Cook runs will use the same strategy that it is using on the iPhone, which will be a new design every two years. It is something that makes sense on the iPhone and seems to have it more in the "most personal device" on the block, since the owners of the current model will be able to wear an updated design for longer.

Apple Watch sales will decline in 2016

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Kuo has not dared to predict what news that supposed "Apple Watch-S" would bring, but rumors of the past assured that the new model would have a new processor that would improve the performance of the watch and a camera that would allow video calls straight from the wrist.

Kuo also wrote about apple watch sales in 2016, assuring that only 7.5 million Apple Watches will be sold in all this year because the market for wearable devices is still very immature. The analyst believes that 10.6 million Apple Watches were sold in 2015, so we would be talking about a decrease in sales of approximately 30% in 2016.

When would that Apple Watch-S arrive? Kuo has also not dared to say when we will have a new Apple Watch available, but the latest rumors say that it will be presented at the WWDC that will take place sometime in June. At this point, now it is my turn to act as an analyst and say that a new Apple Watch with the same design is likely to arrive this year, but it will by no means be called "Apple Watch S" or something similar. I find it easier for them to launch a Watch Apple 2 with small visible modifications than an Apple Watch S directly because its name does not look very good in the face of marketing. Nor does it seem to me that a developer event is the best time to present a new device, but it would not be the first time that they take advantage of it for it. In any case, there is little left to find out if I occupy the position of Ming Chi Kuo as the best Apple analyst (which will be that not).


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  1.   José said

    Whatever an S they are going to eat it but good! Why do I from my friends or family or acquaintances have a Watch but if iPhone ... Either the previous ones go down a lot or I will never have a Watch because the use is very limited.

  2.   iOS 5 Forever said

    Make it slimmer please !!