{"id":26039,"date":"2019-07-23T16:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26039"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T20:41:27","slug":"how-many-gold-apple-watches-were-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/how-many-gold-apple-watches-were-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Gold Apple Watches Were Sold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/07\/22\/apple-watch-edition-few-sales-bloomberg\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/07\/22\/apple-watch-edition-few-sales-bloomberg\/\"><p>As for the $10,000-plus, 18-karat gold <!---->Apple Watch<!----> Edition, the report claims Apple&rsquo;s sales were &ldquo;in the low tens of thousands&rdquo; of units, with &ldquo;few after the first two weeks.&rdquo; The line was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/09\/07\/apple-discontinues-apple-watch-edition-gold\/\">discontinued in September 2016<\/a> after just 16 months and, humorously, the gold models are now stuck on watchOS 4 and below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/gold-apple-watch-sales\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/gold-apple-watch-sales\/\">\n<p>Even with the lowest possible numbers within this framing &mdash; 10,000 units sold of a minimum $10,000 product &mdash; that still means Apple made <em>a hundred million dollars<\/em> on the first-generation Edition. I&rsquo;m not making a judgement on whether this is good, obviously, but it&rsquo;s noteworthy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/a-flop-unlike-any-other\/\">A Flop Unlike Any Other<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: As for the $10,000-plus, 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, the report claims Apple&rsquo;s sales were &ldquo;in the low tens of thousands&rdquo; of units, with &ldquo;few after the first two weeks.&rdquo; The line was discontinued in September 2016 after just 16 months and, humorously, the gold models are now stuck on watchOS 4 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-07-23T20:41:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"699a7b5b-6642-4987-917b-d608081e6310","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-07-23T20:41:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AaZp7W2ZCSYeRe9YICB5jEA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,992,101],"class_list":["post-26039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-watch","tag-business"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26040,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26039\/revisions\/26040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}