Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Slashes iPhone 5 Part Orders Due to Weak Demand
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
We can argue features and facts until our faces are blue. The reality is this...
With the iPhone 5, Apple released a product that a SIZABLE portion of previous iPhone owners simply don't want. Whether that be due to the dock connector change, or the easily damaged anodized case, or the inferior iOS 6 Maps app.
Apple has created a situation where a sizable portion of its fans are actually rooting for a product to fail.
THAT is a problem much larger than the specifics that caused the problem.
Mark
With the iPhone 5, Apple released a product that a SIZABLE portion of previous iPhone owners simply don't want. Whether that be due to the dock connector change, or the easily damaged anodized case, or the inferior iOS 6 Maps app.
Apple has created a situation where a sizable portion of its fans are actually rooting for a product to fail.
THAT is a problem much larger than the specifics that caused the problem.
Mark
I would love for them to offer a smaller, 3.5-inch screen on the next update (5S?). For me, the screen is just too big to use comfortably. With the 3.5" I could hold it with one hand and had no problem using it. With the iPhone 5, I can't. I am REALLY hoping they don't make the screen any wider.
The only reason I bought the iPhone 5, in all honesty, is LTE. If Apple had offered an iPhone with LTE in the iPhone 4/4S form factor, I would have bought it in a heartbeat.
The only reason I bought the iPhone 5, in all honesty, is LTE. If Apple had offered an iPhone with LTE in the iPhone 4/4S form factor, I would have bought it in a heartbeat.
Everyone knowing it going to happen. Iphone 5 is no winner and it all because Apple too afraid to make big change because they think their lucky will run out. If Iphone 6 design flop like Iphone 5 they stock will go nose dive and if they walmart size stores start to losing money you will seeing panic. Wise thing is selling stock and count you blessing.
Apple has always had this problem... being unable to keep up with the competition when it comes to software.
We're seeing this in OSX too - features are put into OSX much later than Windows, and some important features like iSCSI are still missing after several years.
As opposed to, say, using a ~100-year old connector technology the customer needs to buy (usually bundled but still an extra cost) an additional adapter to plug anything but a lamp into the wall. I've got boxfuls of such adapters.
The 120v AC standard power outlet is in dire need of updating. It's fine for high-voltage high-current motorized devices, but everything about it must then get modified by a "wall wart" or some such to drop the voltage to 1/20th, flatten out AC into DC, and mitigate max current draw to ~1% of capacity. Every outlet should include something like a power-only USB port (5v, 0.5A, DC) alongside, so we can just plug in any low-power delicate-electronics device (phones etc.) for charging without a "wall wart". (BTW: someone did a teardown of the "overpriced" 1"
power cube vs cheap alternatives...there's a reason it's $30 vs the $5 knock-offs - one is robust & safe, while the other is dang near lethal.)Apple still makes the best tablet and the best laptops. My wife quit using her windows laptop after she got her first ipad. She's now using the lte ipad. I wouldn't trade my macbook air for any windows laptop - and I've tried comprable ultrabooks. My work tablet is trash compared to my wife's ipad. But I would never consider giving up my galaxy skyrocket for an iphone.
If apple makes 2 sizes of tablets, why not make 2 sizes of phones?
If apple makes 2 sizes of tablets, why not make 2 sizes of phones?
Orders cut for the screen used in both the 5 and the iPod Touch. The "Half" can't be confirmed until the call. The WSJ has removed the 65 Million units from their Stock Manipulating Story.
So, there are no facts in any numbers until the call. Just remember the iPod Touch uses the identical screen.
I have the 4s. I would have gladly upgraded to the 5, but ATT only allows that every 2 years (unless you want to pay full retail) which I think is a crazy policy. Obviously I'll wait for the 5s or 6 now.
While in BestBuy I though I'd grab a ipad mini.....never in stock.
Really need a upgraded MacPro, been 3 years since they really made any substantial changes.
I think Apple has become their own worst enemy.
Elsewhere people have been noticing that apparently someone has been pulling numbers out of their arse. Like starting with a number of 65 million iPhones that Apple was supposed to have ordered for this quarter (which would have been a lot more than a good christmas quarter), a totally unrealistic number, and then going to a realistic number is made to look like a big drop.
Like many others, I have obtained numerous scuffs and scratches on my iPhone 5's edges from no contact whatsoever. Apple made a poor choice with respect to how poorly the aluminum holds up.
Not that again.
Read up before spewing. Xerox IP came along with cross financing agreements.
----------
FINS! FINS I tell ya'. That's what they need to put on it!
But it does make a difference for some and comes in at the same price point or less than a comparative iPhone so the additional RAM is a boon.
When they become ubiquitous and adhere to the Qi standard, you will no longer need to bring your own mat.
Firstly, a 16:9 1080p screen whose diagonal is 4 inches would have a PPI of 550.
Secondly, the 400+ PPI actually does make a difference in certain situations, such as:
- you hold the phone closer than the typical user does
- you have eyesight which is greater than 20:20; with 20:15 vision 400 PPI at a typical distance would be right on the threshold of Retina
The file system is amazing and useful. For example, I recorded my niece's Christmas play on my Galaxy S2 and the video files came to 6.3 GB
. Because I had a cheap micro-USB to USB dongle (£0.70/$1) I was able to copy it to my USB stick in 12 mins via the file system ('DCIM' to 'UsbDriveA').If I had recorded it on an iDevice, I would have had to have either uploaded it to the cloud or use Bluetooth which are both magnitudes more inefficient and time consuming.
How is giving consumers what they want equal to "dumb its devices down"? Have you looked at some of the innovative features in Android smart phones? Have you held a Galaxy S3? I have, and I'll tell you - and I'm a big Apple fan and stockholder - Samsung is on to something with that large screen. The reason Apple simply made the iPhone 5 taller, but not wider, is because it required a minimum of re-engineering and otherwise software changes to accommodate the taller form factor.
Apple needs to hop on the large screen bandwagon and then take it to a new place, or it will become irrelevant in an industry that it helped spark. Hmmm... deja vu?
Been using my IP5 without a case since day 1 and don't have a scratch on it.
Take care of your tools and stop bitching.
Nope. You shouted PHONE as if we are talking about a simple phone. You didn't even write "smartPHONE". Just phone. (If anything SMARTphone would be better.)
In my opinion that is a naive way to look at the smartphone arena as it stands today. The "phone" part is becoming more and more irrelevant.
Michael
That would be marvelous. Those of us who tote a tablet everywhere are not in need of an equally capable phone, we just want a separate phone. My late-model iPhone is nifty, but now I have to keep yet another device updated alongside the iPad. There's a lot to be said for a dumb phone, if only it could auto-sync a few basics with an iPad and make calls with
UX sensibilities. Holding an iPad Nano to my ear just ain't right. An iPhone Shuffle (hold the "make random calls" jokes and add a subset of Siri) would be awesome.
Even if you have all of those services on an iPhone - you still bought the iPhone.
Google is in the services/ads business whereas Apple is in the hardware business. Two different strategies - which leads to Apple being perfectly content with all of those services on an iPhone. Not ideal, but content.
Good call. I guess he liked it down there then. Any idea on the dramatic downfall in such a short time? I really did think the shrinkage was over time, but because it was at $700 a share only four months ago the fall is even more dramatic.
Are you stating that when you opened up your iPhone box, the phone had "numerous scuffs and scratches"
Or, again - are you implying that these scuffs and scratches magically materialized "from no contact whatsoever"
I will not argue about Apple's choice of materials and whether or not they were the right choice.
I will, however, feel free to doubt that the laws of physics cease to exist when it comes to your phone.
----------
...until they bought Motorola's cell division...
So you're saying that "numerous scuffs and scratches" appeared "from no contact whatsoever"?
So you are disappointed by Apple making a poor choice with respect to how poorly the aluminum holds up to.....invisible forces scuffing your phone?
It cracks me up the lengths people will go to to be disappointed in a device that isn't quite what they wanted or expected....