{"id":114375,"date":"2025-08-03T01:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114375\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T01:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:15:11","slug":"weekly-poll-results-apple-watches-surprisingly-popular-google-and-samsung-need-to-step-up-their-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114375\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly poll results: Apple Watches surprisingly popular, Google and Samsung need to step up their game"},"content":{"rendered":"

While smartphones have converged on pretty much the same formula, there is a wide variety of smart watch\/band\/ring\/etc. devices out there. And the results from last week\u2019s poll<\/a> are quite interesting.<\/p>\n

Most of our readers who use a smart wearable have an Apple Watch. We are pretty sure that most of our readers have Android phones, but apparently, they don\u2019t use smart wearables all that much.<\/p>\n

That aside, Wear OS is surprisingly low \u2013 almost half the popularity of Apple\u2019s watchOS watches. Other advanced smartwatch platforms (e.g. Huawei) are also more popular than the platform that is primarily supported by Google and Samsung.<\/p>\n

\"Poll<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another result that we didn\u2019t expect \u2013 smart bands are more popular than basic smartwatches. Unlike their Wear OS\/watchOS counterparts, basic smartwatches offer essentially the same functionality as smart bands.<\/p>\n

Their only real advantage is aesthetics \u2013 if you want a round watch on your wrist that is. Some smart bands offer great battery life despite smaller batteries and they are cheaper and smaller to boot.<\/p>\n

Smart rings are a very new category, so they are still a blip on the radar, as expected. It would be interesting to see how that changes in the next few years.<\/p>\n

Smart wearables differ from smartphones in another important way \u2013 people are in no rush to upgrade them. More than half the voters in the second poll will be keeping their wearable this year.<\/p>\n

\"Poll<\/p>\n

We set a relatively short time frame, asking about plans to upgrade this year. But reading through the comments, it\u2019s clear that many use watches\/bands that are 3, 4 or even 5 years old. Smartphone upgrade cycles are getting longer, but they aren\u2019t at that level yet.<\/p>\n

Only 7% of voters will be buying their first smart wearable this year, which suggests that the market is becoming saturated \u2013 everyone who wanted one, already has one. Of course, our audience is more tech-savvy than most, so buying into more tech gadgets early is not surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While smartphones have converged on pretty much the same formula, there is a wide variety of smart watch\/band\/ring\/etc.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[705,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-114375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114962191248777910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}