How does Apple rebound from iPhone 3GS flop and the threat of Droid?

[Boesky]

Scary, huh? Lets admit—iPhone 3Gs flopped in the Americas. Droid is out and is gaining market share every day. What must Apple do to maintain?

[ste1164]

I wouldn't say the 3GS flopped it has done a lot better than the droid is doing at the moment.

[NT1440]

Scary, huh? Lets admit—iPhone 3Gs flopped in the Americas. Droid is out and is gaining market share every day. What must Apple do to maintain?

The 3GS flopped? Iphones sales are still surging.

[blancoBronco]

the iPhone 3G S has sold more iPhones than either model. pretty big flop

and the droid has sold a few thousand or so? serious threat

[darngooddesign]

Scary, huh? Lets admit—iPhone 3Gs flopped in the Americas. Droid is out and is gaining market share every day. What must Apple do to maintain?

You keep using that word flop; I don't think it means what you think it means.

[Boesky]

Numbers dont lie

[thelatinist]

But people lie with numbers.

[MBHockey]

Numbers dont lie

What numbers? Surely, you can't mean these (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/10/19results.html).

[crazymexx]

Numbers are fake... Every major news website is stating the droid is a flop. Game loft said they're pulling away from android due to the fact there's only 256mb for apps on a google powered phone to install apps on. Droid made no dents against the iPhone.

[rhett7660]

Please post the numbers. WE all want to see these numbers you are talking about.

[army91c]

Numbers dont lie

Put up or shut up.... Show us the numbers of which you speak.

[wowipod]

Numbers are fake... Every major news website is stating the droid is a flop. Game loft said they're pulling away from android due to the fact there's only 256mb for apps on a google powered phone to install apps on. Droid made no dents against the iPhone.

Oh wow. This has been clarified and discussed so many times. The 256mb is not for the entire app. Its for tiny files (1+kb) that the app creates, so that would not be the reason.

the iPhone 3G S has sold more iPhones than either model. pretty big flop

and the droid has sold a few thousand or so? serious threat

The iPhone and iPhone OS is in its 3rd Gen and tbh the 3GS was a flop. The sales figures don't matter here. Where was the innovation? It could have been an amazing industry leading phone. Instead it added features that should have always been there. (Apart from the compass). Plus the iPhone already has a customer base and has its fanboys.

The droid is a brand new unproven product. Its incomparable. Only time will tell if the Droid is a flop.

[NT1440]

The iPhone and iPhone OS is in its 3rd Gen and tbh the 3GS was a flop. The sales figures don't matter here.
p.

Obviously you have no idea what a flop means in the industry...

[nateo200]

Damnit my 3 year old sister can't make me an egg sandwich like my 16 year old sister! That's what it's like comparing the iPhone 3GS to the droid. The phone isn't even a month old and you fanboys tear it to pieces, it barely knows how to walk let alone fly like the iPhone. If you want to compare it you have to let time go by.

[pellets007]

It's kind of funny to see everyone get so worked up about this.

[sushi]

Scary, huh? Lets admit—iPhone 3Gs flopped in the Americas. Droid is out and is gaining market share every day. What must Apple do to maintain?
Please post some data to back up your claim that the iPhone 3GS has flopped in Americas.

[darngooddesign]

The iPhone and iPhone OS is in its 3rd Gen and tbh the 3GS was a flop. The sales figures don't matter here. Where was the innovation? It could have been an amazing industry leading phone. Instead it added features that should have always been there. (Apart from the compass). Plus the iPhone already has a customer base and has its fanboys.

The droid is a brand new unproven product. Its incomparable. Only time will tell if the Droid is a flop.

Sales figures do matter in determining if something is a flop. And while it may not have had a front facing camera the SG was a significant hardware upgrade.

[Demosthenes X]

The iPhone and iPhone OS is in its 3rd Gen and tbh the 3GS was a flop. The sales figures don't matter here. Where was the innovation? It could have been an amazing industry leading phone. Instead it added features that should have always been there. (Apart from the compass). Plus the iPhone already has a customer base and has its fanboys.

Clearly you need to gain a better grasp of the English language before declaring the 3GS a "flop". It's been sold out in Canada consistently since release. Yup - real "flop". :rolleyes:

[thegoldenmackid]

When the Droid overtakes iPhone sales, get back to us. Until then don't put labels on things.

[ucfgrad93]

Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the last quarter. Yep, that just screams flop.:rolleyes:

Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the third quarter of this year, helping to make it the most profitable quarter ever for this company.

http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=15783&news=Apple+Financial+Q309

[Wicked1]

Not even close, I looked at the droid but there is no way to sync all the Addressbook, iCal, music etc on the Motorola Droid, or the HTC Droid. Their features are still new and not mature enough to compare to the iPhone. Right now I have an iPhone but the rest of my family is on Verizon, so instead of me paying $100 per month just for my iPhone I was looking at the droid because I really do not care for the Blueberry's. The Droids are ok, nice interface, quick but lack of mac compatibility and being so new leave me stuck with having to consider the Storm using the new Blueberry Mac/Sync software.

I think AT&T has it's share of issue, but so does Verizon however if I have to give up my iphone to make sense with our cellular bill, it would be for the Cheap/Free Blueberry Storm, not the Tour for $150 or the Storm 2 for $179, I refuse to buy an expensive phone on verizon after owning an iPhone. I am one of the lucky ones that has full bars and 3G basically where I live and everywhere I travel, but I do not like the Storm interface, especially coming from an iPhone. I also do not believe Verizon will ever have an iPhone, there is too much chaos and indecision between Apple and Verizon, it's like Oil and Water, theoretically they should co-exist, but basically they hate each other.

[CocoaPuffs]

You are aware that the whole Android market is confusing both app developers and the end users with their different version of OS and different hardware in each phone.

Until Google gets their act together for Android, there is no immediate threat.

[Bye Bye Baby]

Numbers dont lie

No. But you seem to be...

[wowipod]

What is more funny than people picking on what I said is the fanboys hiding behind figures.

The 3GS was a flop because it lacked innovation, that is what I have said. Flop can mean a lot of things depending on its context. Perhaps check that before trying to tell me that I don't know what a word means.

[Compile 'em all]

Scary, huh? Lets admit—iPhone 3Gs flopped in the Americas. Droid is out and is gaining market share every day. What must Apple do to maintain?

Flopped? Apple is having a hard time meeting demand and you call that a flop. Time to get out of the cave bro!

[Compile 'em all]

What is more funny than people picking on what I said is the fanboys hiding behind figures.

The 3GS was a flop because it lacked innovation, that is what I have said. Flop can mean a lot of things depending on its context. Perhaps check that before trying to tell me that I don't know what a word means.

This is how you build products. You make a solid foundation and build upon it. This is exactly how the iPhone and its OS evolves with each incarnation. Adding the magnetometer, the autofocus, doubling the RAMs, and the new ARM CPU brought the product close to perfection AND enables innovation. Till this day the iPhone remains the only true consumer-friendly product that implements multi-touch "properly". Smooth, sensible, and easy to use.