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Apple Launches 8 GB iPhone 5c, Relaunches 16 GB iPad 4
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Just few minutes ago I've seen in a supermarket's leaflet the iPhone 5c 16GB 499.
Bye bye 8GB
I was just about to write this exact same thing! the reason the 5C is failing is it did not fill the lower cost phone space because everyone could get the 5s for the same price because of all the carrier promos......
The 5c should have been free or $99 with 2 year contract.
If you go to the Apple site, click on the iPad header and scroll to compare all iPads, you see something interesting. The entire line of existing iPad offerings have a very high degree of feature parity. Some specifications are different, price, chip, carrier support, digital zoom. But for the most part the key features of the current offering set has a very high degree of feature parity.
Rocketman
http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/
Rocketman
http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/
Says who? Analysts and blogs that take Tim Cook's words about selling fewer than expected units at launch out of context? The phone is selling and possibly enough to cover its costs etc.
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Perhaps the folks buying this model, even as a 4S aren't looking for a phone to do all that.
If these stores sell the iPad Air $40 below the official price, why wouldn't they sell an iPad 4 $40 below the official price? I would expect the difference in percent to be the same. All depends on what you use it for.
You do realize that they have ALWAYS sold a 8GB model, which until yesterday was the iPhone 4S, so absolutely nothing has changed other than which model is the 8GB one...
and info about unsold stock.
btw how is the following taken out of context
not slightly but very different. one can also assume that those words were chosen quite carefully.
wait you question the info analysts have but you know enough to speculate that the 5c is covering its costs. what info do you have to back that up? and obviously a better response to that by redorchestra below.
no why would you buy a smartphone to do smartfeatures. that of course dosent make any sense.
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US Dollar prices are lower, even though they SHOULD convert favoring the Euro, for example a 5c at $549 should cost around 399 but they sell it at 629!
That's a shame!
"The phone is selling and possibly enough to cover its costs"
That's a solid business plan, if I ever heard one!
That's a solid business plan, if I ever heard one!
the cost difference between 8GB and 16GB chip for apple is about $10 dollars.
People with more space can even purchase more content from app store and iTunes store so more money for Apple.
People with more space can even purchase more content from app store and iTunes store so more money for Apple.
$399 for an out of date iPad? Why even bother? Are they so out of touch that they think this will shorten the gap between Android and iOS?
It's a great chip but it does not compare to the performance and power of the iPad air.
Yesterday the smallest iPhone 5C available was the 16GB. But now that an 8GB is available... you think all hell will break loose.
It won't.
Just because an 8GB 5C iPhone is at the store... doesn't mean anyone has to buy it.
If 8GB won't be enough for your mom and 16GB won't be enough for your sister... they shouldn't buy an 8GB phone... period. Tell them to buy a 16GB and 32GB instead. They probably know that already.
My last iPhone was 16GB. I now have a 32GB. I went up. That's normal.
I'm sorry you've been limited by your 8GB iPhone for the last 8 years... but that's your fault. You needed a bigger phone... but you chose not to upgrade.
In contrast... there are people who will never fill an 8GB phone. That's who 8GB phones are for.
Here are the iPhone models and capacities:
4S - 8GB
5C - 8GB
5C - 16GB
5C - 32GB
5S - 16GB
5S - 32GB
5S - 64GB
Choose wisely. This isn't that difficult.
The 8 GB 5C isn't going to be available in the USA.
Apple Announces iPad 4 Relaunch, Confirms 8 GB iPhone 5c Limited to Select Countries.
Apple Announces iPad 4 Relaunch, Confirms 8 GB iPhone 5c Limited to Select Countries.
Ah, for some reason I thought the iPad 2 was $330, I don't know where I got that number from. I suppose it makes sense then. the iPad2 really needed to die.
It's a smart business move to "try" and capitalize on certain market segments. The problem is that Apple successfully created an image in peoples minds that they are a premium brand. This would be like Ferrari making a 4 cylinder turbo car and selling it for a lot more than other 4 cylinder turbos. It doesn't make sense in the minds of people who associate a brand with premium quality and then it's not. Like others have said 8gb is not premium in 2014 - 16gb isn't anymore so going backwards makes no sense.
People (me included) miss the days when the new(er) Apple came out with premium products that we wanted to have instead of trying to dominate all possible market segments.
People (me included) miss the days when the new(er) Apple came out with premium products that we wanted to have instead of trying to dominate all possible market segments.
i dont think all hell will break loose. i actually thought i had expressed it well enough that im disappointed this is the only thing apple can think of to offer a "cheaper" phone and further than the 5c is a continuing disappointment in my eyes.
my example for my mom and my sister was merely an anecdotal evidence in reply to comment a about non techie people you made. simply just because you arent a techie dosent mean you dont require space.
im not blaming anyone but myself regarding my situation and my phone (even if i blame myself). certainly not apple. again i was pointing how life is on an 8 gig device in this day and age.
if you want me to word it differently i can say. i wish apple would offer a cheaper/more reasonably price entry phone with usable and more future proof capacity.
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Whoever is responsible for the european pricing scheme, is either a poor market analyst or a person blessed with a big portion ignorance. Product quality is maybe not the biggest problem. A lot of people buy unsubsidized phones here and the 5C pricing is not competitive. That's why I still think, that the 5C is a total fail in Europe and there must a huge stock of unsold phones. One of the biggest retailer sold the 5C 32gb last weekend for 500€ (normal price 700€ at the Apple Store).
The funny part is that the 4th gen ipad released at $499 so 2 yrs later and it is only $100 cheaper.