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分析師最新報告：全球現在有超過 1 億人佩戴 Apple Watch

分析師最新報告：全球現在有超過 1 億人佩戴 Apple Watch

長期追蹤 Apple 蘋果業績的分析師 Neil Cybart 賽巴特在個人網站《Above Avalon》發布最新報告，Apple 蘋果已經在 2020 年 12 月突破里程碑，推算全球已經有 1 億人擁有 Apple Watch，而且 Apple Watch 的使用率正在快速增加中。Continue reading

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Neil Cybart: 921 million iPhones in the wild as of Mar. 30, 2019 On Thursday, one of best trackers of Apple unit sales showed his math. “It’s important to note that that the majority of iPhone sales occur outside of Apple’s direct distribution channel.” — Cybart, …

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When the May jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was released Friday, the positive numbers caught many by surprise—including the Washington Post, which mistook the job gains for losses.

"Grim milestone to be reached as May unemployment rate nears 20 percent," the Post falsely stated in a tweet at 9:46 a.m. that was soon deleted.

A correct tweet soon followed, saying, "U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly declined to 13.3 percent in May amid pandemic," although the story pictured still carried the "grim milestone" headline with the false 20 percent figure.

The text of the Post‘s story, written by economics reporter Eli Rosenberg, remained incorrect even after the headline was changed, according to a screenshot tweeted by author and podcast host Neil Cybart.

"Another 2.5 million workers lost their jobs in May," the story said, although it was actually 2.5 million workers who obtained jobs.

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Thoughts on Ive’s departure, and Gruber’s take

TLDR: it’s been clear for some time that Ive was on his way out. Creativity is a process defined by renewal and change, and the only surprising aspect to all of this is that Ive stayed around for so long. Gruber is concerned that there is no replacement for the Chief Designer role, and as such, no clear indication of who will be the final arbiter of design at Apple. I hear his concerns, but believe it’s time to think differently about how good design happens and focus not on design messiahs but rather on the teams that build great products together. 

There is much panic throughout the web - and I am sure on the 11 o’clock news across America tonight - about Jony Ive’s departure from Apple. The stock has dropped in after hours trading, and panic has or will set in for many. However, Apple’s institutional structure will, in my view, take it far and the design house within the company is, by all accounts, still strong. After all, we’ve seen many good products in the last few years (Airpods, iPhone X, iPad Pro (2018), and Mac Pro (2019)), even with Ive clearly focused elsewhere. I don’t think this change of leadership is fatal, though things are certainly shifting into unknown territory.

John Gruber shared his thoughts this evening about the announcement. Starting with his thoughts on the relationship between Steve Jobs and Jony Ive.

My gut sense for years has been that Ive without Jobs has been like McCartney without Lennon. Or Lennon without McCartney — take whichever analogical pairing you prefer. My point here is only that the fruit of their collaborations were, seemingly magically, far greater than the sums of the duos’ talents and tastes.

One thing I do know — which Cook alludes to in his statement above, and which I think was made crystal clear in Ian Parker’s extraordinary 2015 profile of Ive in The New Yorker, which is, in my opinion, the most insightful piece ever written about post-Jobs Apple — is that Jony Ive had moved beyond designing computers. And let’s be clear: the entire point of Apple has always been and should always remain designing computers. Everything they make is a computer. Their genius in recent years has been making things that don’t seem like computers but really are computers. Apple Watch is a computer. AirPods are computers. We’ve got computers — excellent computers — in our fucking ears. That’s Apple.

Gruber goes on to say that Ive’s focus had clearly turned elsewhere, including most notably on Apple Park. 

Ive is being “replaced” by two people, a hardware design lead (Evans Hankey) and a software design lead (Alan Dye). Both reporting to COO Jeff Williams. Gruber is, to say the least, concerned:

It makes me queasy to see that Apple’s chief designers are now reporting to operations. This makes no more sense to me than having them report to the LLVM compiler team in the Xcode group. Again, nothing against Jeff Williams, nothing against the LLVM team, but someone needs to be in charge of design for Apple to be Apple and I can’t see how that comes from operations. I don’t think that “chief design officer” should have been a one-off title created just for Jony Ive. Not just for Apple, but especially at Apple, it should be a permanent C-level title. I don’t think Ive ever should have been put in control of software design, but at least he is a designer.

I don’t worry that Apple is in trouble because Jony Ive is leaving; I worry that Apple is in trouble because he’s not being replaced.

And, for what it is worth, Gruber is not a fan of the knighthood designation mentioned in the Apple PR Announcement:

Fuck this “sir” shit. We don’t have titles in the United States.

This seems like an odd thing to focus so strongly on.

In any event, I think Gruber’s main point - that there is no clear indication of who will be leading design decisions at Apple - is fair. This does seem messy. In particular, there is some suggestion in the announcement that Jeff Williams is now a big product guy (b/c there is now some new leadership underneath him in the operations wing who will take on more responsibility, freeing up Williams for other work). Williams has indeed been leading the Apple Watch program, which has seen success. But, my feeling is that his interest has been driven by the health capabilities of the Watch, and not on the overall product (including hardware and software design). Maybe I’m wrong and Williams has transformed himself into a design and product type, but the chief of operation seems like an odd lead of the design wing of Apple. 

Neil Cybart at Above Avalon has long opined that Apple’s key differentiation is its strong sense of design as a singular guiding principle. Design of the UI, the hardware, the experience. Apple’s products are a complete thought, designed and crafted from end to end. Will this continue to be true, can it?

It is, as they say, dangerous to compare then to now, but Apple’s best years have correlated with strong design leadership. Jobs, and then Jobs-Ive, and finally Ive alone.

What’s next? What will we, one day, call this coming era? Will it have a single headline name, will it be the “Williams” era? Or, is it time to think different?

I think it is. Apple is big, like, the biggest company ever big. And to define the products of the last few years as solely the work of one man, or of one mind, is unfair and misguided.  Apple is secretive, and as a result we tend to only focus on the people Apple chooses to talk. But, it is clear that there are huge, very talented teams working on the products there. We should celebrate them, and their work. While it’s hard to give them a short, easy to remember label, we must focus on the results of their work. And if the last year or so is any indication (post butterfly keyboard, and dongle-mania, which I believe were the last big things Ive probably worked on), they are today firing on all cylinders. Ive’s best decision is to recognize that, and take his cue to move on to what is next. 

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Apple's hardware categories are now gaining record new users after a 2017/2018 strategy change that let product groups independently update major product lines (Neil Cybart/Above Avalon)

Apple’s hardware categories are now gaining record new users after a 2017/2018 strategy change that let product groups independently update major product lines (Neil Cybart/Above Avalon)

Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: Apple’s hardware categories are now gaining record new users after a 2017/2018 strategy change that let product groups independently update major product lines  —  During Apple’s “Peek Performance” event held last month, the company announced not only a brand new Mac category with the Mac Studio …

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Through its custom silicon, integrated sensors, design-led focus on user experience, and broad ecosystem, Apple is a decade ahead of rivals in wearables (Neil Cybart/Above Avalon)

Through its custom silicon, integrated sensors, design-led focus on user experience, and broad ecosystem, Apple is a decade ahead of rivals in wearables (Neil Cybart/Above Avalon)

Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: Through its custom silicon, integrated sensors, design-led focus on user experience, and broad ecosystem, Apple is a decade ahead of rivals in wearables  —  Last week, Apple quietly unveiled one of the more remarkable pieces of technology that has been developed in the past few years. Source link

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Blood Pressure Update : Apple Working On Cuffless BP Monitoring Tech

Apple is reportedly working on technology that could detect a user’s blood pressure (BP) by using neutral networks and seismocardiogram data, negating the need for a BP cuff.

According to a patent application, a wearable device, potentially paired with Apple Watch, might one day be capable of monitoring a user’s blood pressure without the need for any additional peripherals.

The patent application, titled “Interpretable neural networks for cuffless blood pressure estimation,” explores the use of neural networks to estimate blood pressure using seismocardiogram data, reports AppleInsider.

Unlike an electrocardiogram, which relies on electrical signals to monitor a heart rate, a seismocardiogram measures the micro-vibrations produced by the heart beating, the report said.

The system would work by leveraging an individually pruned neutral network accepting a seismocardiogram as input. That neural network would then use the data to estimate blood pressure, the patent said.

Launched in 2020, Apple Watch Series 6 comes with a Blood Oxygen feature that offers users even more insight into their overall wellness.

Oxygen saturation or SpO2 represents the percentage of oxygen being carried by red blood cells from the lungs to the rest of the body and indicates how well this oxygenated blood is being delivered throughout the body.

It houses a faster S6 System in Package (SiP) and next-generation always-on altimeter, along with its most colourful lineup yet, featuring a beautiful palette of new case finishes and bands.

A recent study by researchers at Mount Sinai hospital in the US found that subtle changes in a participant’s heart rate variability (HRV) measured by an Apple Watch were able to signal the onset of Covid-19 up to seven days before the individual was diagnosed with the infection via nasal swab, and also to identify those who have symptoms.

Reliable Apple analyst Neil Cybart, in February, had shared a report showing there are currently over 100 million people wearing an Apple Watch.

source: https://insightonlinenews.in/blood-pressure-update-apple-working-on-cuffless-bp-monitoring-tech/

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6 Tahun Rilis, Apple Watch Gaet 100 Juta Pengguna

6 Tahun Rilis, Apple Watch Gaet 100 Juta Pengguna

Technologue.id, Jakarta – Perangkat wearable seperti smartwatch semakin banyak peminatnya. Banyak vendor yang mulai terjun ke industri yang seksi ini. Meski begitu, smartwatch besutan Apple masih menjadi juaranya. Fakta ini berdasarkan laporan analis Neil Cybart dari Above Avalon. Baca Juga: Berkat Apple Watch, Seorang Pria Terselamatkan Nyawanya Dalam laporannya, dikatakan bahwa ada lebih dari…

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Apple Watch now has over 100 million users globally, says analyst

Reliable Apple analyst Neil Cybart has shared a report showing there are currently over 100 million people wearing an Apple Watch.

According to the analyst, Apple Watch took less than six years to cross the 100 million milestone.

Some of the data points revealed by the analyst claim that 30 million new users started using an Apple Watch in 2020, which was way more than the users in 2015, 2016, and 2017 combined.

"At 100 million users, the Apple Watch is Apple's fourth-largest product installed base behind the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. At the current sales trajectory, the Apple Watch installed base will surpass the Mac installed base in 2022. Surpassing the iPad installed base will take longer and likely be measured in a number of years based on the current sales trajectory," the analyst said in a statement.

Since the US has been an Apple Watch stronghold for years, adoption in the country has trended materially high in comparison to global figures. At the end of 2020, approximately 35 per cent of iPhone users in the US were wearing an Apple Watch.

The analysis also highlights that Apple Watch has been popular among consumers because it has a "cool factor" for being a new kind of product and also for offering unique features such as monitoring activity and vital signs.

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Apple Surpassed 100 Million Active Apple Watch Users: Report

Apple Surpassed 100 Million Active Apple Watch Users: Report

Ever since Apple launched the Apple Watch, the device has been massively popular in the market. It is mainly because of the health-focused features that help users stay fit and keep their health in check. Well now, according to an analyst, more than 100 million users are using the Apple Watch on their wrist globally. According to a recent report by analyst Neil Cybart, Apple recently surpassed…

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Apple Watch now has over 100 million users globally, says analyst

Apple Watch now has over 100 million users globally, says analyst

Reliable Apple analyst Neil Cybart has shared a report showing there are currently over 100 million people wearing an Apple Watch. According to the analyst, Apple Watch took less than six years to cross the 100 million milestone. Some of the data points revealed by the analyst claim that 30 million new users started using an Apple Watch in 2020, which was way more than the users in 2015, 2016,…

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分析师：Apple Watch智能手表用户数已越过1亿大关

分析师 Neil Cybart 周四指出，Apple Watch 智能手表在 2020 年 12 月迈过了 1 亿用户的重要里程碑。由其在 Avalon 网站上发表的研究报告可知，随着 3000 万用户拥抱该平台，Apple Watch 的采用也正在加速。

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There’s Now an Apple Watch on 100 Million Wrists Following the Launch of Apple Fitness+

The Apple Watch recently passed a pretty significant milestone, with analysts estimating that there are now 100 million Apple Watches in active use around the world. The data comes from Neil Cybart at Above Avalon, who notes that Apple crossed the 100-million mark just this past December, following the launch of Apple Fitness+, which he […] https://www.idropnews.com/news/theres-now-an-apple-watch-on-100-million-wrists-following-the-launch-of-apple-fitness/152215/