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How often should Apple introduce a new iPhone?
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You do realize that the overall U.S. smartphone marketshare is...
Android - 52%
iOS - 35%
Blackberry OS - 7%
Other - 5%
Windows Phone - 2%
Source: Nielsen
Yes, iOS did have more marketshare compared to Android but that was only Q4 and due to iPhone 5. Look at your own chart before posting.
Do you even know what 12w/e Nov 2011 and 12w/e Nov 2012?
It means compared to 2011...iOS grew by that much.
Other lost by that much.
But ANDROID still has the most marketshare overall.
Get your facts straight.
No. Again. You're wrong. That figure is from last year. iOS has the hold of the marketshare. There's a nice article about it on the front page of this very website if you pulled your head out of your ass far enough to see it.
Did you?
Copy n pasted right from the article link
Learn to read the article instead of just looking at a picture and thinking your a genius.
Sure; I understand the mechanics of such deals. What I mean is the decision of a consumer to pay one-time at the begin (and don't have to have a two-year-contract) or use the two-year-contract as a kind of loan and enjoy a new phone with a timely distributed price. Not much difference to a car. It should only depend on the financial situation of the customer which of both ways he will choose.
if we are all forced into two-year-contracts I agree Apple can stop bring the "s" models and focus on bigger jumps every two year.
I'd rather a whole new phone when they release, but everyone is in-titled to their own opinion
Agree 100%. Love what you said here.
For Apple's sake, it might not hurt them to compete a little faster. The mobile market space is a very different place now with currents changing and monsters fast rising...
Apple are in that position where the customer doesn't really matter so much because they have such a good reputation and they can easily make money.Reputation is everything in a company and apple have that.It a tough market out there and they want to be the leader of the pack and there is many trying to copy apple and keep up with the pace but they cannot do it because they don't have the research investment and they don't have the production development like apple either.
That's an android/US carrier sucker game Apple doesn't need to get envolved in.
One where both need a perpetual supply of ginned up phones to generate ad exposure, or else.
I agree with you then
Is there anything in particular you want to see in iOS 7 in terms of functionality?
I agree with you then
Hello,
I would personally love to see even incremental improvements like showing the current temperature on the Weather Icon as opposed to it always reading Sunny and 73 degrees. I also think it would be great to at least offer somewhat widget like options when you pull down the Notification Screen.
Cheers,
JJ
I prefer waiting longer for something that really blows me away than seeing these incremental upgrades.
Iphone - Iphone 3GS - iPhone 4 - iPhone 5 would have been a much better lineup in my opinion.
Just look at the iPad 3rd generation, what's up with that? It's like they released it just to release it and then completely kicked every early adopter in the nut sack by releasing the 4th gen fifteen minutes later.
Iphone - Iphone 3GS - iPhone 4 - iPhone 5 would have been a much better lineup in my opinion.
Just look at the iPad 3rd generation, what's up with that? It's like they released it just to release it and then completely kicked every early adopter in the nut sack by releasing the 4th gen fifteen minutes later.
Lose the contract
Purchase your next iPhoneunlocked for $850.00 & there will be no contract.
Purchase your next iPhoneunlocked for $850.00 & there will be no contract.
I think it should be 12+ months for every reveal, and I think they should do away with the S models and just go with the whole number and knock it out the park. I voted 18 months though.
What did they do exactly to the iPad 3 owners? Like did the iPad 3 suddenly stop working?
All they did was release an iPad 3 updated with some minor specs and a Lightening connector. Did people really think that Apple ripped them off and changed the release cycle to fall? The iPad 5 is coming out still in the original iPad March time frame. Suck it up and just enjoy what you have.
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Android phones get released every week.
Even if iPhones get released 2x a year, its not that bad. You can choose whether you want to skip the S version or not without waiting a full year.
