So, anything other than the best selling phone in the world is a failure? Tough crowd. Doesn't that mean that either the 5S or the 5C had to be a failure?
Walmart dropped the price of the 5S and 5C before they even launched. Does that make them both failures? Amazon drops the price of best sellers below cost. Does than make all best sellers failures?
Retailers compete with each other to get consumer business. When they drop prices, it's to get you to buy from them instead of their competitors.
There is no evidence of a drop in demand.
I'm sure Apple is crushed every time a customer spends more money to buy the 5S.
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Speaking of myopic visions, your reading of my post is evidence of your surface intake of my statements. Read closely, but not shortsightedly: I write specifically that the 5C, when compared to other 1) "new" products 2) by Apple (and strictly Apple), the 5C has been a failure. It is NOT garnering the attention of the masses in the ways the 5S is---a quality step forward, at that---find me a time when the launch of a "new" iPhone amounted to so much competition in the race to the bottom for pricing? Tell me why Apple (on their website and on their Television ads) are promoting the 5C much more than the 5S. It is simple: The 5S on its specs, build, and quality of design sell the phone itself; the 5C was a carefully planned launch, allowing the 5S to shine with more brilliance (when juxtaposed next to the 5C) and allowing the Apple to save money manufacturing the previous generation by repacking last year's specs in a plastic shell. Had Apple continued selling the 5 at $549 retail, they would have made the visual distinction between 5S and 5 more difficult to discern. As well, introducing the plastic colorful shell saves them money on their continuing manufacture of last year's phone. Thus, Apple makes out in yet another aspect as opposed to simply continuing to sell the previous generation at a $100 cut.
The problem is, the masses, clever as they may (or may not) be, are not impressed by the 5C. It's unusual to see a so-called new Apple product (and an iPhone at that) to be so seemingly desperate for sales. The iPhone 5C scheme has not caught on---its brightest days are gone.
Living in Hong Kong, I can tell you there are 3 multi-floor Apple stores, and numerous Apple premium resellers, and the 5C is readily available, in every color, and has been for weeks. The 5S has met a completely different demand.
Apple failed to make the 5C a "new" phone:
1) it's overpriced
2) the colors/shades are not modern world universal
3) it's last year's phone
4) it is being marketed to a degree like few other Apple products have been marketed, yet the demand (worldwide) is negligible compared to PREVIOUS iPhone launches.
It may seem there's a contradiction here: That the iPhone isn't selling as well as the 5S simply because it IS last year's phone, but when has that been an Apple objective? To introduce a "new" phone, touted as "new" at release, and proven to be a weak seller in terms of other launches.
Look at the iPad Mini. Yes, it was basically iPad 2 technology released next to the current iPad 4, yet it has been a very popular release--Apple's price was reasonable for the sleeker form factor, despite its non-Retina display.
The 5C is not a "new" release, and those readers who naively proclaimed they would choose the 5C over a 5S (despite owning a 5!) have realized it wasn't worth it, and they now are ...apologetically plastic.
