Apple probably sold more Apple Watches in a day than Android Wear managed all year

According to sales estimates, Apple managed to shift more Apple Watches on the first day that pre-orders went up than Android Wear's hardware partners could muster in total throughout the whole of 2014.

An estimated 957,000 pre-orders for the Apple Watch in the US alone, when the device went up for sale on April 10th.

That's according to a commerce tracking firm called Slice Intelligence that makes sales estimates by tracking receipts in the inboxes of people who agree to have their emails monitored by the firm.

And, as Business Insider points out, that's more in one day than the number of Android Wear devices that were estimated to have been sold in the entirety of 2014.

Market research company Canalys says Google’s hardware partners, including LG, Motorola and Samsung, only shipped 720,000 of the wrist-worn computers last year.

In fact back in January, Google Play stats showed that fewer than a million users had downloaded the Android Wear app. The number of installs, now in April, has since changed to '1 million to 5 million'.

Neither Google nor Apple have provided official sales figures for their smart watches. But if these numbers are any indication and not just random digits pulled out of a dusty hat, it looks like Apple Watch has left its Android-powered rival in the dust.