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A week after Apple started taking preorders for the Apple Watch, sales are still going strong. KGI Analyst Ming Chi Kuo estimates that preorders will exceed 2.3 million, with 85% of purchases going to the Sport line. Despite current manufacturing difficulties with the haptic motor and AMOLED displays, Ming-Chi expects Apple Watch output to reach 2 to 3 million units per month by June. He believes Apple will sell 15 to 20 million watches in 2015. A Reuters poll last week found that about 6% of American adults plan to purchase the Apple Watch, which would equate to about 15 million sales.
With such high demand and limited production capacity, Angela Ahrendts wrote a memo to company employees saying that the Apple Watch will not likely be available for walk-in purchase at Apple's brick-and-mortar locations until June at
the earliest.
Apple Watch owners, who will begin receiving their devices on April 24, can attend free Apple Watch Basics workshops held at Apple Stores. As the title suggests, the workshops are intended to teach watch owners how to use their devices, and are held at 1.5 hour intervals every day of the week.
There were a few other notable items last week:On Tuesday Apple announced WWDC 2015. The annual Worldwide Developers Conference will be held at San Fransisco's Moscone Center on June 8 through 12. Apple is expected to unveil iOS 9 and the next iteration of OS X at the event.
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On Monday Apple released iOS 8.4 beta to developers. The highlight of the update is a new and improved Music app. It includes a new MiniPlayer that gives you access to playback controls while you are browsing the music library, improved iTunes Radio navigation and Global Search integration.
On Tuesday Apple released Research Kit to developers and on Thursday it released OS X 10.10.4 beta, just a week after OS X 10.10.3 was released to the public.