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Title: Magic tricks: The appearing competitor trick
Post by: HCK on March 02, 2018, 04:05:12 pm
Magic tricks: The appearing competitor trick

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<p>Trust the Macalope when he says that today he brings you a trick that will amaze you! By the end of this column, you will question the very fabric of reality!</p><p>Writing for TechCrunch, John Biggs is here to tell us how well the Apple Watch is doing. So well, in fact, that it’s destroying the Swiss watch industry.</p><p>(Let’s hold off on the headline for a bit because the headline is more of a punchline.)</p>

<p>In Q4 2017 – essentially during the last holiday season – market research firm Canalys found that more people bought Apple watches than Swiss watches.</p>

<p>Wow, you mean that the Swiss smartwatch you could “upgrade” later to a mechanical watch for just $1,500 (https://www.macworld.com/article/3007725/wearables/dead-again-another-apple-watch-killer.html) and <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/01/07/swiss-alp-mechanical-apple-watch/" rel="nofollow">the $25,000 mechanical watch that looks like an Apple Watch[/url] didn’t secure the industry’s position? Very strange.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3257935/wearables/magic-tricks-the-appearing-competitor-trick.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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