...that makes it the only current generation iPhone capable of being used to make secure contactless payments without taking off a mask.
Watching people use FaceID for contactless payment at the supermarket has always been a laughriot, even before it carried a potentially life-threatening / plague-vector risk.
Oh, I don’t know. When I go to Costco, I can set up a whole cart full of stuff with Bar codes up and ready to scan. I pull out my XS, it FaceID unlocks, I tap the Costco App and memebership, up pops my member ID with pic and QR. Cashier starts to scan my items, I walk 2 strides to card reader, two squeezes on side button and Apple Pay is ready, then scanned. If I’m wearing a mask, 2-5 seconds to pull down the mask, allow FaceID to read again, unlock Apple Pay, mask back up.
Most times, I’m into the cashier and out in less than a minute even with $200 worth of Costco items from scan membership to handed the receipt. And cashiers thank me for them needing to do a lot less work.
Pretty much the same at any store I go to where they take Apple Pay, and yes, two clicks of side bar on Apple Watch 4 does the same.
Let’s say it starts at ~$399 as you’re asking (Similarly to what the 2016 SE started at) . I don’t necessarily believe a $399 price point will ultimately make this the ‘success point’ for this new iPhone, being are consumers really upgrading their tech items right now given the economic conditions? I’d say they’re not, as long as the phone is working perfectly fine, a new iPhone probably isn’t a priority on their list/deemed as ‘non-essential’. But globally for a price point at $399, I think the phone would do very well long-term, but I don’t think it would be a ‘sell-out’ given how things are currently in the economy.
The $399 price point is a place where many are buying mid priced Androids so the new SE is the global entry point for new and replacement iOS users. Up until the global slowdown , this was a great plan and it still is, simply because as the economies recover, whenever that happens, Apple will have iPhones covering all price points from $400 on up. And, IMO, the $399 is for a base 64GB model, I suspect there will be a $499 $128GB and $599 256G model. Those who had saved up probably will make the $499 model the biggest seller in the US while in China or India, the $399 model will excel.
It’s all about conquest sales from Android and of course leverage into the iOS ecosystem and services.
well lets see who is still able to afford the iPhone 12 by the end of the year once the next great recession kicks in
Oh, there’s still quite a few people out there who can and will afford it, if they wish to spend. Those with prudent investments will weather the storm. If one owns 330 share of Apple, the annual dividends will buy you a new $1000 phone each year. Own only 165 shares and you could buy a new phone every two years.
Touch id doesn't work well with gloves though.
Exactly and if your gloves are so thin it can read your fingerprint, those gloves aren’t much protection in the long run.
