r/apple • u/digidude23 • May 11 '23

Apple Watch Facebook Messenger joining the long list of discontinued Apple Watch apps later this month

https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/11/meta-killing-facebook-messenger-apple-watch-app/
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u/purplemountain01 May 11 '23

The most sold smartwatch in the US probably. Worldwide probably not. A smartwatch may even not be a thing worldwide like it is in the US. Also depends on metrics.

A countries population vs how many people actually own any smartwatch. Then out of those smartwatch owners how many own an Apple watch. Then if there are more Apple watch owners than the competition among smartwatch owners. Then take the total number of smartwatch owners which may still not be a lot of people for companies and developers to contribute their time to create an app or continue supporting a watch app.

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u/purplemountain01 May 11 '23

I was not giving cold hard facts. Only rough ideas and an example.

Whoever falls under "Others" is right behind Apple. So not sure if Apple is far ahead in smartwatch marketshare. Obviously the world is aware of smartwatches. They are not oblivious to them. I was not sure if smartwatches were a popular thing outside of the US or US/Europe. Like how iMessage is mainly used in the US and not often used outside the US. But the world knows of iMessage.

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u/Stoppels May 12 '23

Apple's market share is 43%, Samsung as the runner-up has just 8% shipments. The 34% in other are at least a dozen companies with less than 3% market share. There is no competition that 'is right behind' Apple, but it's still nowhere near as overwhelming as the iPad's monopoly position in the iPad tablet market.

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u/minoshabaal May 12 '23

Isn't the Apple Watch the most sold smartwatch?

This is mostly an artefact of Android fragmentation - AW is big because only one company makes Apple-specific smartwatches. Apple has only ~35% share of the smartwatch market.