Apple Watch series 5 thoughts

I linked to Marques’ review of the series 5 Apple Watch recently and I have to start by agreeing about the battery life. It is excellent when the display is set to not be always on, but noticeably shorter than the series 4 when this much hyped feature is enabled. The question is, does this […]

Smartwatch Sales Are Soaring

That jump comes on top of a 51% increase in dollar sales of smartwatches for the full year in 2018 and a 61% increase in unit sales, according to NPD. NPD estimates the size of the U.S. smartwatch market for 2018 at nearly $5 billion. The January-through-June data reinforces the conclusion of an NPD report […]

Will the Apple Watch outsell the entire Swiss watch industry next year?

It might be an accurate assessment. The research firm Strategy Analytics has calculated that 22.5 million Apple Watches were shipped in 2018, while the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said the industry exported 23.7 million watches in the same period. Reports now suggest that 2019 will be the first year Apple outsells the entire […]

The Smartwatch Crisis

I say all of the above while putting myself in the shoes of those strange people who do not love watches. Those people, 99% of the population, for whom a watch is something that does a job without them ever really noticing it. These are the people for whom a quartz watch is normal and […]

The brilliant idea that should not be forgotten

Take a look at the Chronos website and you can immediately see the appeal for anyone who loves their watches, but who does not want to wear a fitness tracker or smartwatch on the other wrist. No matter how much time passes I suspect that covering both wrists will never be acceptable until the trackers […]

Smartwatch shipments up, Apple pulling away

Selling consumers on smartwatches has proven much more difficult than selling them on smartphones a decade ago, but the market is gaining traction. Counterpoint Research says that smartwatch shipments grew by 48% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2019, but most of that is thanks to Apple, Samsung, and Fitbit. Fossil, and therefore Wear OS, […]

Skagen Hybrid Smartwatch (SKT1113) review – master of none

Hybrid watches are by many accounts dominating the sales figures for brands such as Fossil, and by some stats in a way which means that they are seriously scaling back on traditional watches due to a lack of sales. This kind of makes sense because people who are used to purchasing a watch every few […]

Fossil Q Crewmaster review

A hybrid watch on paper sounds like the perfect solution for those who prefer a traditional looking watch, but who also want notifications and fitness tracking as extras. For many men in particular a watch is the only jewellery they wear and so a smart watch like the Apple Watch or an Android Wear timekeeper […]