This is total bs. Just last month on black friday Apple betrayed customers in Germany by charging for gift cards that were offered for free when buying a specific product. Apple is rolling out more and more perfidious methods.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls Reports That iPhone XR is a Flop 'Bologna'
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This is total bs. Just last month on black friday Apple betrayed customers in Germany by charging for gift cards that were offered for free when buying a specific product. Apple is rolling out more and more perfidious methods.
Afraid of giving information to competitors.
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It doesn't cost dollars in Italy. It costs Euros. And it includes VAT (not included in US prices), and it includes the cost of much better consumer rights (not included in US prices).
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What actually happened was that instead of getting money off the normal product price, you paid the full product price and got a gift card. You can look at it as paying a reduced product price and paying for a gift card, but that's just your view. No betrayal happened. Nobody felt betrayed unless they are exceedingly bad at maths.
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The XR has a bigger screen.
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What actually happens is that upgrade cycles take longer (everywhere in the industry), so someone who bought a new phone every two years may now buy one every four years. Because of that, people can buy more expensive phones, but they will buy only half as many. That's why the $29 battery replacement did cost Apple money that Apple will make back in the long term: Many of these replacements show that a phone can last a long time, so you can buy an expensive phone.
I bought an XS for my wife. Her last phone was a 5. She's thrilled with the new one despite concerns about size initially. You can tell that she's had no need to upgrade for many years so the cost of the new one is offset by how long she is likely to keep it.
The cameras are the killer features for her and many others moving up from old devices.
All the talk about price, where Apple is going, whatever are immaterial to her. She simply has the most phenomenal phone that works and has developed no faults of any kind.
It's our feeling that Apple may indeed learn and change pricing or features but what we wouldn't want is to be short-changed on quality which the XS has in abundance. I have also set up an XR for someone else which they are equally happy with. That's it.
The cameras are the killer features for her and many others moving up from old devices.
All the talk about price, where Apple is going, whatever are immaterial to her. She simply has the most phenomenal phone that works and has developed no faults of any kind.
It's our feeling that Apple may indeed learn and change pricing or features but what we wouldn't want is to be short-changed on quality which the XS has in abundance. I have also set up an XR for someone else which they are equally happy with. That's it.
Apple sells an XR mini - it is called the 7s. For much less than $649, actually.
I missed the comedy show last night. If Tim don't want to provide the figures of units sold, he should have kept his mouth shut. All he had to do is just talk about the products and kept the financials out.
When Tim said privacy is very important to him and holds that dearly, that includes not releasing Apple numbers of units sold.
I still have my 6 and changed the battery too. There is nothing wrong with it and does everything I need it for and so far nothing have enticed me to upgrade, even with trade-in or the big gift card offer from this past holiday.
Don't forget proscuitto !
I think the biggest competitor for the XR is the X. At least in Europe you can get the X for less than the XR, which makes it really hard to justify the price tag on the XR. So, unless one wants certains specific features of the XR (color, dual sim, LCD-only screen for whatever reason), the X is likely the better deal. I assume that's the case in many other countries...
As an iPhone 8 owner (from just 1 year ago) my $1000 phone feels somewhat antiquated already.
Really however, if I was looking for a "low" cost alternative today, its a great value as is the iPhone 10.
I think there is one of three issues at play for Apple.
1. The flagship phone costs too much.
2. The lower cost alternative such as the XR doesn't feel like much of a savings when you can buy last years flagship instead.
3. The phones are lasting longer. People can hold on to their phones for more than 2 years.
Really however, if I was looking for a "low" cost alternative today, its a great value as is the iPhone 10.
I think there is one of three issues at play for Apple.
1. The flagship phone costs too much.
2. The lower cost alternative such as the XR doesn't feel like much of a savings when you can buy last years flagship instead.
3. The phones are lasting longer. People can hold on to their phones for more than 2 years.
A phone can be both the top selling phone in the company's lineup and disappointing relative to expectations at the same time
It is hard to really tell apart any of the X model phones (including the Max when it is in someone's hand), but I haven't consciously seen many XR phones in the wild here in NYC. Overall X model phones are still a minority compared to other iPhones.
It is hard to really tell apart any of the X model phones (including the Max when it is in someone's hand), but I haven't consciously seen many XR phones in the wild here in NYC. Overall X model phones are still a minority compared to other iPhones.
Any thoughts on the Smart HDR feature, where it can handle highlight and shadow areas better simultaneously in contrasty situations, though multiple exposures and sophisticated processing? That's what I'm looking forward to as reports claim it is far better on the Xr
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Still not sausage, just bologna in ring shape. Kinda like a dog tube tube shaped bologna.
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"Now, the best phones, we knew that, as we went to the X and then the follow-on of the XS and the XS Max, that everybody would not want to spend $1,000 for the phone. So we made the iPhone XR."
Yeah except its still over 1000$ in Canada.
1000$ for a rectangle that doesn't do anything meaningful that a 500$ rectangle can't do.
Yeah except its still over 1000$ in Canada.
1000$ for a rectangle that doesn't do anything meaningful that a 500$ rectangle can't do.
No one releases their numbers of units sold. It's about revenue, and utlimately profit and that is what Apple just gave us updated guidance on and soon we will have the actual numbers, but it looks like this is going to be the second highest revenue quarter ever despite the impact from the China slowdown.
Yes, all he has done is make Apple the leading company in nearly every category they've entered and set all time WORLD revenue records, and bring Apple to one of the most valuable companies in the world. Here's a just a few of his successes"
1- Apple Watch- Apple now is the leading watch maker in the entire world. Regarding smart watches, Apple Watch owns so much of the category, they are the category!
2- iPhone- Apple is now selling close to a quarter of a billion phones every year! Most importantly, Apple now has almost all of the ENTIRE INDUSTRY profits for smart phones.
3- iPad - Again, Apple owns the vast majority of the entire industry tablets and has no serious competition for sales in the non-junk category of tablets.
4- Apple Music - From zero to #2 in the entire world and now #1 in US.
6- Wireless audio- Apple is now number one in the entire world in wireless sales thanks to AirPods and Beats line.. Beats purchase was ingenious as Apple has the majority of premium headphone market (>$200) and has huge profit margins.
7- Services- Under Tim, Apple has become one the largest services company in the entire world and Apple Services alone dwarfs Facebook's TOTAL revenue.
OK, I'll let up on the gas and stop there. But no, Tim Cook is still your CEO and isn't going anywhere.
Not gonna continue arguing whether bologna is a sausage. Just google it.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bologna
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