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Apple Launches 8 GB iPhone 5c, Relaunches 16 GB iPad 4

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Hello Apple marketing numpties...! Exercise some common sense. Who pays slightly less for a premium product to get something much worse? Have the sales of 5S vs 5C not taught you that? Jeez...

I'm waiting for the new Thunderbolt Display. I do hope they release a version with half the current resolution at £50 off - that would be wonderful! Jeez...
 
irnchriz said:
Do you think that the market for these handsets is PAYG??

500 mins, 500MB iPhone 5C 16GB - £19.17 per month, £174.99 handset cost
500 mins, 500MB iPhone 5C 8GB - £19.17 per month, £41.66 handset cost
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YES! Why on earth not? Why sell to carriers for so much less than to end users?! If O2 are getting it for £133 less than the 16GB model, why the *** is it only £40 cheaper at retail?
 
I just love the paid employees of other companies that came here today. They were just waiting for this news to hit the streets so they can come here and hate on Apple.

And to all the rest of of you here that think 8GB sucks or the entire iPad/iPhone 5c idea is bad, newsflash, Apple isn't marketing this to you. An 8GB iPhone is perfectly fine for a very basic user that may have been coming off an old flip phone and wants to be part of the Apple ecosystem. If 8GB couldn't run iOS 7 then Apple wouldn't release it.
The people here blowing hot air probably damn near use a smartphone as a Macbook Pro replacement with multiple tabs, tons of apps installed, jail braking and the rest of that nonsense.

Every time Apple comes out with something new or makes a decision to do something the people HERE on MR seem to think they were the target customers. You're not.
 
MacFather said:
8GB? Seriously?

Releasing anything, especially a Smartphone, with 8GB in 2014 should be considered a crime.
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an 8GB iPhone 5c is not a problem,
It's that consumers will buy it because 8gb vs 16 gb vs 32, vs 64 is an abstract problem for many people. Most users whom buy these phones are after the inexpensive deal, like free on 2yr contract deals. or bogo deals.
 
Oletros said:
Device capacity does matter when you only have 8GB, download some games, take some pictures and videos, sync come music and you're using almost all the capacity and looking what do you have to delete.
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I have 20 apps, 35 mostly short videos and 400 pictures and I'm still not to 8 GB. Everyone does not use a lot of space. 8GB is plenty for some.

My 4s and 5 were 16 GB phones and I never came close to filling them up even though I take quite a few pics. I upped storage to 32 when I got the 5s since it was free anyway, I figured why not.

Bottom line is 8 GB is plenty for some. Apple does overcharge for increased storage though.
 
My mom bought the 16gb 5c a few months ago, and honestly this 8gb would've been perfect for her.
 
gto55 said:
559 euros ($779) for a smartphone derived from a one year old model, no HD screen (HD = 1280*720 - Iphone 5/5C/5S 1136*640) , 8GB....

:eek::mad:

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Leave the "HD" Bs to the android world, where the marketing rules ... It's about PPI, and iPhone 's resolution on a 4" display is still more than enough.
The A6 chipset still is quite powerful , the GPU is powerful too.

What is wrong is the price, ridiculously high, and the only 8 Gb of free space.
 
They must be feeling the squeeze on sales if they have to introduce cheaper models and re-introduce previously discontinued products essentially just to try and make their new products look good value for money.
 
8GB storage capacity in any iOS device is insufficient these days.
€40 is less than 10% of the price of the 5C - not exactly saving much. Sure, there is a very small minority for whom 8GB is enough, but their numbers are so small that the 5C is still going to sell poorly.
 
numlock said:
not slightly but very different. one can also assume that those words were chosen quite carefully.
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Again he's talking about one quarter and about the phone launch which means really perhaps only 2 weeks of that time. That is the context folks forget

Yes they over produced for the launch, but who knows what has happened after that.
 
Janichsan said:
I still would like to see some concrete numbers for this, but I think it's telling that I haven't seen one single iPhone 5c in the wild. Not one. On the other hand, I encountered about quite a lot 5s, including a sizeable number in "pimp", sorry, I meant "champagne".
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I've seen a lot of them in the wild.
4 only where I work every day.

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Zxxv said:
iGreed the new iPhone from apple, looks like an iPhone... performs like a piece of ****. Text and call only with the all new iXpensive iPhone with zero storage to do the things you love.

Apple destroying the brand piece by piece...
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You didn't even touch an iPhone 5/5c, correct ?

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haruhiko said:
The iPhone 5 / 5c do not perform like a piece of ****. But 8GB is absolutely ridiculous.
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Is ridiculous AT THAT PRICE. If it was 300€ .......
 
minhvn said:
Well at the time I posted my comment there is no 8GB 5c available in the US Apple Store yet, and £429 = US$712. Still, $499 is still way overpriced.
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I have good news for you then! There is no 8GB iPhone 5C available in the US. And it's silly to just convert the UK price to American dollars, while then comparing that price to the existing US prices in the US store. Do you honestly think that an 8GB iPhone 5C would be more expensive than the higher capacity models?
 
Zxxv said:
this topic is about the iPhone 5c at 8gb not the 5 or 5c at 16gb or 32gb. It will perform like I said. go fill it and see i.e. use it as an iPhone and find out its an iPhone in disguise, i.e. an iPhoney. It can't do all the things advertised as an iPhone doing.
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Storage space is not going to affect performances, so you are wrong.
The only wrong thing here is the price.
Surely not performance, because iPhone 5C is faster than many mainstream competitors.
The problem is that the price is ridiculously high and 8 Gb are a very little space.
 
KeepCalmPeople said:
The point is, how many of those people are there left? And are they going to pay a premium price for a 5C?
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I know a few people clinging to their flip phones because they don't want a smartphone. But I know a couple more than finally get an iPhone just to be able to use FaceTime (which doesn't require any real storage space).
 
Apps

I wonder what percentage of smartphone users have NEVER downloaded an extra App for their phone? I'm going to guess that in the US on Android the percentage is north of 25%.

I don't expect this 8GB phone to sell too much. But if my Mom's hand me down iPhone 4 breaks, and if I don't have another hand me down iPhone to give her at that time, then this might be the phone she is getting. It will certainly be one of the 5c versions for both the color and the more durable plastic case. She is not downloading any Apps to her phone. She isn't putting any music on it. This will be plenty of room for pictures and video before she loads them to her iPhoto.

There is a niche for this phone.
 
pancakedrawer said:
Can't innovate anymore my a$$
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They've been busy innovating with Carplay, and making sure that it launches on Ferrari and Mercedes first, so that Tim and his cronies have a new toy for their $300,000 vehicles.

So give them a break. Let them milk obsolete products for their profit margins.
 
Anything replacing the iPad 2 for that price is a better buy for consumers. The 5C 8gb free on contract or for $400 without is a good buy for people who want that iPhone feel without paying $650 for a new iPhone. It's a 5 with an array of colors. I mean they could give away the 5 originally on contract, but it's probably more expensive to manufacturer than the 5C.
 
8Gigs is nothing? My first computer had 4K of memory. I learned programing, played games and listened to music. But whenever I turned it on, I had to reenter hundreds of bytes of 8080 machine code back in again using toggle switches on the Altair front panel. Those were the days.
 
MacFather said:
8GB? Seriously?

Releasing anything, especially a Smartphone, with 8GB in 2014 should be considered a crime.
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Considering how much NAND memory costs nowadays, it's a pity that they have to come down to this to offer $429 price point.
 
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