Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple 'Blown Away' by iPhone 5 Pre-Orders
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
And Apple will be "blown away" by the pre-order demand, yet again! And people will genuinely believe it.
The point is simply that maximizing immediate sales is not the only way to make a profit. And, more than that, Apple is famous for strategic design and marketing.
I actually think you're right and they aren't likely manipulating, but this is just my gut feeling.
Apple is shrewd and I suspect doing their best to create as much demand as possible. Playing with the supply chain simply wouldn't surprise me in the least. They kind of already do this with their delayed rollouts and such.
Denial much ?
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/1...llion-iphone-4s-pre-orders-in-first-24-hours/
----------
I don't use Android. I own an iPhone. 4S. Maybe you should stop trying to pigeonhole everyone.
So it would take Apple pre-selling literally 100 times as many iPhone 5 units in the opening weekend as iPhone 4S units last year, versus maintaining the traditional pattern of maybe doubling units year after year, in order for you to be open to the fact that they could be "blown away" by the volume.
See, most reasonable people would think that falling far outside the established pattern would be enough to warrant some "blown minds" at Apple.
If you knew anything about math, you'd know that, say, doubling the rate of increase of growth would fall WAY outside the established trend.
You saying that it would take a 100 times increase and "not a single unit less" in order to acknowledge that someone at Apple might be "blown away" definitely, definitely says a lot about your reasoning skills.
Nokia tactics. Limit the amount of phones given to stores and then say WE'RE RUNNING OUT. So you better hurry up and pre-order yours.
You're on a forum with a vocal group of complainers. Most people who buy the iPhone 5 don't even know what it is and buy it anyway.
Except they are "Blown away" every year. Isn't that a pattern right there ?
Literally amazed at people believing Apple's marketing spin...
I'm pretty sure that most people who buy a flagship iPhone that costs between $200 and $400 with new 2-year contract, or a high-end Android phone for that matter, on opening day, "know what it is."
instead of comparing apple with nokia, you will find better success by comparing potato and tomato.
If anything, they just don't care about increasing production rate because the short supply increases excitement.
Keep in mind that Apple is a marketing genius company. Even near its start, Apple produced what is known by some critics as the greatest advertisement ever, the "1984" ad for the Macintosh. That's the best ad I've ever seen in my life. And they also created the "Mac vs PC" ad series, which I also think is great. I kinda hate the iPhone 4S ads, though.
Apple knows exactly how to make people go wild over the iPhone, and people always say that "I never knew I needed an iPhone until I got one." People like my grandma want an iPhone and have never used one before and hardly know what it is. Apple gets so much more advertising from the news than they do from their own iPhone ads.
Dude, you're missing the forest for the trees, someone's subjective "innovative" measurement doesn't matter - go to Android where that plays to an extent.
The 920 appears to be a really nice WP 8 phone (love the idea of the IS camera and F2.0 lens), but iOS users who have been in iOS land for a while typically won't just try some other OS out (its different than in Android). Once folks are in this they often buy lots of movies, tv shows, music, apps, books etc. and unless they want out really bad (and take a big monetary loss on those things they bought) they aren't just going to go try another phone OS on a whim (cause it'd be financially painful).
On top of that the user experience of the iPhone, the way it works with the other parts of the Apple ecosystem (come into a wifi hotspot and the photos from the phone automatically go up to the cloud and then down into your iPhoto application so its waiting for you as a small example) isn't matched by any other vendor at this point - Apple doesn't have to worry about the very latest this or that, they keep refining this user experience they've built over years and making life easier for its users and those users keep coming back and giving them money for good reason.
WP will probably be getting most of its users from new smartphone users and Android users who can leave that ecosystem without near as much penalty...JMHO
Well yes chief, I believe there was a problem at the 4S launch :
Reading that article... it seems... almost... as if they had the same problem as they had this year!
Why yes, the same "Carrier reservation systems aren't responding...".No wonder Phil was Blown Away last year and again this year. It's 2011 all over again.
Who could have predicted that uh ?They were behind in production and has finally caught up. But that doesn't make up the time that was delayed in getting the part to foxconn to assemble. My take on this was there were not as many units completed for the initial batch.
Have you considered Apple considered it ? Or are you saying they were "Blown away" for the 6th time in a row with "demand surge"... Like this was the first year ever where demand surged...
Surprise KnightWRX is suggesting yet another Apple conspiracy theory! LOL.
We'll know the numbers soon enough. Spin that
most people don't know though, is that iphone has a high "resell value" to other "human beings", while crapdroids have high "reclaim value" by the trash can.
True, they are as the numbers are so much bigger every year...its just amazing.