Apple reportedly has a big problem with defective Apple Watches

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According to the WSJ article that the Verge shamelessly mis-re-reported, "Apple doesn’t plan a recall, because there’s no indication that Apple shipped any watches with the defective part to customers." (Emphasis mine.)

Are sales figures available for the watch?

Edit: from http://www.cnet.com/news/how-well-did-the-apple-watch-sell-t...

"Cook tends to use phrases like "amazing," "staggering" and "unprecedented" when describing new product launches. But when it came to the Apple Watch on the company's fiscal second-quarter earnings call with analysts on Monday, he sounded a little more muted. Cook largely danced around questions about the company's first smartwatch, only saying customer response has been "overwhelmingly positive," he's "really happy" with where Apple is currently, and Apple's moving as quickly as it can to meet demand."

For competitive reasons, they rarely share information on new products. It's a brand new market and they don't have to share information, so they don't. Analysts are estimating around 2 million sold, but feel free to take that with a grain of salt.

It's worth noting that before the release he said that Apple wouldn't release numbers, this isn't a reaction to poor sales.

Remember that there's currently a backlog, I think right into June. Obviously Apple could have created that artificially to drive consumer interest, but it's still a datapoint.

Models ordered today won't ship until July.

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