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Apple to Restart iPhone 4 Production for India, Indonesia and Brazil
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Well I just sold my 4 basically for what I paid for it 3 years ago on contract. So obviously there is a market for it. Having the 5S now there is no way I could go back to it. To slow! 
Curious move
Was just down in Brazil in Sao Paulo with my family and everyone there has the S3 or S4. Both of which smack the old 4 (did they say 4 or 4s?). I really can't imagine they are going to resell the ... 4???
Not sure what people's impression of Brazil is, but it sure ain't some 3rd world country needing old iphone handouts. Just like the US there's rich and poor areas, but on average the internet speeds in my father in law's house kicked my South Florida's ISP in the butt, price-wise AND speedwise.
So here my wife and I are plunking away on our S3's (an upgrade over our old 4s's) and yet my sister in law, her husband, my father in law, my mother in law (all brazilian), all have the S4 or Note3.
And apple wants to try to sell them ... an iphone4? Really?
Was just down in Brazil in Sao Paulo with my family and everyone there has the S3 or S4. Both of which smack the old 4 (did they say 4 or 4s?). I really can't imagine they are going to resell the ... 4???
Not sure what people's impression of Brazil is, but it sure ain't some 3rd world country needing old iphone handouts. Just like the US there's rich and poor areas, but on average the internet speeds in my father in law's house kicked my South Florida's ISP in the butt, price-wise AND speedwise.
So here my wife and I are plunking away on our S3's (an upgrade over our old 4s's) and yet my sister in law, her husband, my father in law, my mother in law (all brazilian), all have the S4 or Note3.
And apple wants to try to sell them ... an iphone4? Really?
Makes me laugh at the number armchair experts pontificating about how Apple has it wrong.
What you do think the company marketing experts did? Toss a coin or something?
What you do think the company marketing experts did? Toss a coin or something?
No. That would be a disaster.
If Apple started selling the iPhone 5C in India for $240; overnight they would destroy their worldwide profit stream. The 5C has (most of) the latest technology goodies - and is a current model. People would buy them and sell them in Europe and the US.
The iPhone 4 however isn't a threat to Apple's business in Europe and the US. Most of their customers there already had - or have - an iPhone 4. So they have no incentive to want to buy a "grey market" import from India.
Apple may be prepared to restart iPhone 4 production and sell these "new" iPhone 4s at a much lower profit in India because they don't think 3-year old technology will "cannibalize" sales in high margin markets. And they are prepared to accept a lower margin in India and other developing markets in order to avoid ceding the low end to Samsung and other Android handset makers.
Apple's emerging market strategy is a good one.
Probably so. Along the lines of the iPhone 3GS getting the iOS 6, but really only the essentials.