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Because 'Muricah is not the only country in the world, something that is often forgotten on these forums.
Please stop posting like all of us Americans are rednecks. In fact, many of us hope that rednecks who make America look bad like that all pack up and go start their own country, because they give America a bad name!
This. I completely share this idea. Gimme an iPod Touch with a cellular chip and I get it. My 4G Touch is always with me, it does exactly what I need.
I would simply like to have a phone that is integrated with the iOS/Mac OS ecosystem I have been creating. Windows Phone and Android, although worth a look, are not capable of doing so. Sell this iPhone Touch for 350 euros, 8GB version, 512 MB RAM, and it is gonna be mine.
Apple owns 75% of the profit in the market, they seem to be doing alright. You can't destroy you're business model for extra profit. Look at in and out burgers. They don't try 99 cent crappy burgers, they keep it simple with High quality and that place is always packed.
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That's fine, but Apple makes more money and owns 75% of the profit of mobile sales . Do you want to sell more or make more money?
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Take that, plastic haters
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Yeah, and BMW aren't growing at a ridiculous rate, are they?
Yeah actually they are. It's an expensive car, it won't be as common as Honda or Toyota crappy quality.
The point is that you get a "new" up-to date(sort of) iPhone that Apple just released. It makes people feel better when they know they have the latest version.
That's why I said maybe $300 will be the price... earning about $150 in profit.
10 million new customers at $150 in profit is an extra $1.5 billion that they couldn't have before. And it will grow... $300 is a much more attractive starting price for many markets across the globe.
It will open up more doors than the $450 starting price that the iPhone has now.
Don't forget... the regular iPhones will still be there... earning the same profit as always.
But a cheaper iPhone available to more people that also earns a profit... will generate even more cash.
Well said,
When Apple came up with iPhone in 2007 , target was to sell around 10 million units in first year. Now,Apple's iPhone division is full-fledged phone manufacturing company competing with other companies & rules of Phone market apply to iPhone as well. Hence like any other phone manufacturing company, they need model to cater entry level as well as high end model. Selling only expensive phone will hurt Apple.
As of now,price sensitive people are preferring Samsung phones. If difference between iPhone (low cost variant) & other phone is less , those guys will definitely go for iPhone (As Apple brand stands for superior quality)
Like it or not but in future,iPhone is not going to be exclusive phone.
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It actually wouldn't be totally shocking to see Apple release a newly designed, budget model iPhone. They're still selling millions of iPhone 4 & 4S models that aren't equipped with the latest cellular tech or Apple's new proprietary Lightning connector.
Eventually it becomes less cost effective to continue using old components than it does to update them with what's currently on the market in large quantities, or to maintain consistency with other products.
If Apple is pursuing emerging markets with this theoretical product, the last thing they'd want to do is get that whole market embedded with the old connector. It makes no sense.
Updating the iPhone 4 design to utilize the Lightning connector also makes little sense. An attractive design could certainly be built using plastics. It would help to reduce costs and pricing as a result. It could also incorporate the 16x9 aspect ratio of the new iPhones, reducing fragmentation of the OS as well.
Will Apple release a $99 no contract iPhone? I don't think so for a minute. But replacing the aging 4th generation design would make sense on a few different levels.
Eventually it becomes less cost effective to continue using old components than it does to update them with what's currently on the market in large quantities, or to maintain consistency with other products.
If Apple is pursuing emerging markets with this theoretical product, the last thing they'd want to do is get that whole market embedded with the old connector. It makes no sense.
Updating the iPhone 4 design to utilize the Lightning connector also makes little sense. An attractive design could certainly be built using plastics. It would help to reduce costs and pricing as a result. It could also incorporate the 16x9 aspect ratio of the new iPhones, reducing fragmentation of the OS as well.
Will Apple release a $99 no contract iPhone? I don't think so for a minute. But replacing the aging 4th generation design would make sense on a few different levels.
They can actually do both.
There are some people who cannot afford a $450 iPhone. Apple makes ZERO dollars from them.
However... if Apple had a $300 iPhone that still made a profit... that's extra money in Apple's pocket.
Oh... and Apple still sells the $450, $550, $650, $750 and $850 iPhones too.
About which America are you talking? North or south? Since there are two continents named like this. And I#m sure you are not a redhead and know how a things name.
Perhaps "best manufactured" is the right way of putting it, maybe "one of the best made?" Well designed, however has nothing to do with supply constraints. To quote Jobs, "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." The design that is concerned in your argument is that of the manufacturing process itself.
While having supply is important, a lack of supply does not impact the quality of the product. The only reason supply is constrained is because, between the screen lamination and friction stir welding, Apple is pushing the limits of what is currently feasible.
Or DigiTimes is just throwing **** at the wall to see what sticks. A plastic see-through phone. What are we back to 1998 now?
The United States of America. Because America is the last part of the name, the denonym (Sp?) of United States of America is American, which in shorthand, becomes just "America" when referring to the nation as a whole.
Yes we realize there are two continents North & South America.
Who cares, don't ruin your business model because people can't afford it. It will be impossible to catch everyone on the demand curve. Stick to making top beautiful products.
Other great companies don't lower the quality of their items so more people can afford them. Should Louis Vuitton make cheaper bags? In and out sell 99 cent crappy cheeseburgers?
Dangit. I think this would be a bad move. It would be a definite step backward for Apple. They are settling. They aren't making "great products". Apple is definitely going into its same slump when they fired Steve in the old days.
This makes me disappointed.
This makes me disappointed.
Did you miss the part where I said they can still make the normal beautiful iPhones too?
The existence of a budget iPhone doesn't diminish the quality of the flagship iPhone.
It would be an additional product... not a replacement.
Also... check out my earlier comment about how automakers can sell budget cars and luxury cars.
Not if most of the $450 iPhone buyers switch to the cheaper lower margin models. Then Apple would lose too much high margin profit to make it up with the lower margins on the cheaper model, even if it is profitable.
The only way to make extra money is to make a phone that almost none of the current expensive iPhone customers would want, even with a significant price savings.
How could Ives design a new product so ugly (or feature crippled) that most current Apple smartphone fans wouldn't switch?
A difficult problem.
But they do. They have tried using cheap labour and the quality fell through the floor, they have also made some absolute mounters eg X3, cheap, tacky and built to a low quality.
People really should stop using car analogies. They don't work.
I'd like a smaller cheaper iPhone. With my iPad at home I don't need the huge screen. So I'm definitely getting one of these.
The nay sayers are probably the same people who did not believe in the iPad mini, or iPod mini/nano etc for that matter.
The nay sayers are probably the same people who did not believe in the iPad mini, or iPod mini/nano etc for that matter.