Nope - I'm a fan too. Obviously there are colors I wouldn't buy, but people have different tastes.
All-in-all, its a nice looking low-mid range phone (if leaks/rumors and renderings are true).
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Apple Shipping Low-Cost iPhone to China Mobile
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Nope - I'm a fan too. Obviously there are colors I wouldn't buy, but people have different tastes.
All-in-all, its a nice looking low-mid range phone (if leaks/rumors and renderings are true).
Yep I like it also. But I'll be getting the 5s.
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All the goofy comments aside... this is great news for Apple and great for the shareholders.
Looking forward to next week.
Shareholders will really benefit in about 3 months when sales # are announced.
I can actually see Apple making such a move, but I highly doubt it. There are plenty of us who would like a lower cost iPhone.
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Nope, same here. Looks pretty good. Cannot wait to see it in person!
There will certainly be a larger customer base for Apple in China. No doubt!
But I also hear that only 138 million China Mobile customers are on 3G now. That's out of the total 700 million customers.
So while that 700 million figure sounds nice... Apple's addressable market on China Mobile is actually much lower.
And that's before you consider price.
I'd like to know just how many of those 700 million China Mobile subscribers can afford phones at $400+
Well amazingly enough the same thing has been said here about low income individuals and somehow they find the money (or do the subsidizing).
OK, now I think we know why Carl Icahn took a big stake in Apple. With more sales in China (and Japan with NTT DoCoMo reportedly getting the iPhone), the worldwide marketshare will go up.
Plus, the 5C hits a sweet spot in price in the States and Europe. Margins should be better than selling older iPhones at a discount.
Wall Street should be happy with this news.
Plus, the 5C hits a sweet spot in price in the States and Europe. Margins should be better than selling older iPhones at a discount.
Wall Street should be happy with this news.
$400-500 means it's a midrange phone. On top of that it's pretty expensive for midrange
For comparison, the Lumia 520, which is the hottest budget smartphone in India, retails for about $160. Midrange phones like the Galaxy Core and Lumia 625 sell for $300
Marketshare will swing a little, but that Android dominated budget market is not going anywhere
For comparison, the Lumia 520, which is the hottest budget smartphone in India, retails for about $160. Midrange phones like the Galaxy Core and Lumia 625 sell for $300
Marketshare will swing a little, but that Android dominated budget market is not going anywhere
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Oh right... subsidizing.
I'm so used to hearing about non-US countries and their habit of paying full price for phones.
Thanks!
Even if they pull full price, say $250 for an Android or say $400 for an iPhone 5c, the $400 will go farther in the long term and resale.
$400 to $500?
: $300 is my limit.
So no cell phone this year.
... Or perhaps an used iPhone 5.
Who knows?
: $300 is my limit.So no cell phone this year.
... Or perhaps an used iPhone 5.Who knows?
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And we'll be able to move on complaints about screen size all day, everyday, yey!
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I wonder about this too with the "everything is free Chinese Android store" they have.
Nope, I like it. Especially the white one. Looks so much cleaner than the iPhone 5.
The release of the 5C may decrease Android's market share to some extent, but I wouldn't say fall. The most recent Kantar numbers for China have Android 70.5% and iOS 22.4%, that is a big lead for Android. Interestly Android is more dominate over iOS in part of Europe that in China.
http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/Global/News/Record-share-for-Windows-phone
http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/dwl.php?sn=news_downloads&id=282
No, I like the colors too. But the massive China populace is mostly poor so unless the price is vastly lower than everywhere else this won't change much.
And yet you posted the following report about how Samsung's sales crushed Apple's in the mobile phone space:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/17620057/
Would it not also be a disservice for Android/Samsung devices to have extremely high market share? I am guessing you would be just fine with that!
It looks like this is about to happen. Surely the 5C would cannibalize any 5S sales here and perhaps Apple doesn't want that to happen. I guess we'll get a glimpse of the 5C's profit margin once Apple announces what country it's sold in and if alongside the 5S.
So this is how they're spinning it now... I'll need a source. I'm truly curious if Android manufacturer's don't actually track sales and instead rely on Google to "see" them by connecting to Google Play. That's a back-asswards way of doing things in my opinion.
Now, if you'd like to see which app store is "stronger" (or whatever), that'd be the right way to measure it. Android could argue that their store *could* be stronger if it weren't for some countries poor connections, if there even is a connection. But every OS/Manufacturer would suffer from this issue.
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Let me see if I can find the source (of the rumors
) but there has been whispers of 5C's shipped to US soil. I don't see Apple ever doing a region/country specific device.Found it: "C Technology, which has been posting a number of photos of alleged iPhone 5C units, packaging, and manuals, has also claimed on its Sina Weibo account (via @MobilesPie) that 1.2 million iPhone 5C units were shipped to the United States yesterday. " MacRumors Article
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The reasoning to some (mostly iPhone users/intelligent people
jkjk) is that Android can be had for a ridiculously low price, especially in China. You skimp on quality, but that's not a choice of Google of course, that's the choice of the manufacturer. Leaving the final decision to the customer on whether to save money and have the features of a smart phone albeit a possibly ugly and slow phone.
Of course the 5C will be available everywhere. Apple doesn't do region-specific products.
No you're not! Loving the blue 5C casing... And hopefully the price is just right for this poor college student!