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Apple's iPhone 8 Plus Was the Top Selling iPhone in the U.S. During Q2 2018
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Maybe they would have but we will never know. But for now we have the numbers to go by and the numbers do not lie.
Then not all corporate decisions are gold.....big corporations do make bad decisions sometimes.
Another interpretation is that it says less about the popularity of FaceID than it does about normal demand cycles. More price-sensitive consumers are drawn to the less expensive handsets regardless of the point at which we find ourselves in Apple’s product cycle, while those who are less concerned with price are holding off to see what Apple unveils in a month and a half.
You missed the point that the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus were also for sale during this period and quite well still.
HO HO HO!
Doesn't say much for Face ID's popularity. Apparently way more than 55% of people still wanted the Home button after all. All in all, I'd say the huge winner was Touch ID.
Pretty much what I predicted and was laughed at for saying. The Home Button and Touch ID are sound solid tech.
All these new gestures and mistaken touches to me lead to a "bag o' hurt." Too many things to remember. Apple is about simplifying things. Taking the home button away unnecessarily complicates a lot of things in my opinion.
But what do I know? The buyers have spoken.
Tim Cook, the bean counter, should have noticed this. What will happen when there is no Home Button iPhone left in the mix? Hmm.
Once you get an X, you realize the 'notch' isn't a thing, at all, which is what the designers realized at Apple once they used it for a few days...and Touch ID also doesn't matter.
Possible to attribute to high cost, but another explanation is screen size. If you combine 6S+7+8+SE, you have nearly 50% of all iPhone sales. That's 50% of customers preferring either a lower cost device, or a device with slightly smaller screens.
Either way you cut it, every rumor that I've heard for the next generation line up just doesn't make sense.
In the US, I think a lot of this is driven by carrier discounts and promotion. Let's say you are a normal iPhone user (75% of them) that buys a phone when they need them, or when it is available for an upgrade. You walk into your carrier, and you are offered a BOGO deal. Or you walk into the Apple Store, and you convince yourself you don't need the phone that costs $300, or you don't want to learn FaceID. Over the next few years, more of those customers will convert to FaceID phones.
Personally, with new Macbooks and iPads coming, I am debating whether I can skip a new iPhone this year. Probably not
I love my iPhone 7 and its home button, but I think it’s hard to say that that’s the driving force here when the only iPhone with Face ID costs so much more than any iPhone with touch ID.You missed the point that the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus were also for sale during this period and quite well still.
HO HO HO!
Doesn't say much for Face ID's popularity. Apparently way more than 55% of people still wanted the Home button after all. All in all, I'd say the huge winner was Touch ID.
Pretty much what I predicted and was laughed at for saying. The Home Button and Touch ID are sound solid tech.
All these new gestures and mistaken touches to me lead to a "bag o' hurt." Too many things to remember. Apple is about simplifying things. Taking the home button away unnecessarily complicates a lot of things in my opinion.
But what do I know? The buyers have spoken.
Tim Cook, the bean counter, should have noticed this. What will happen when there is no Home Button iPhone left in the mix? Hmm.
Its interesting that apple have gone for "holdability" with the X design. The form factor of the 8 Plus is definitely two handed. But if the X plus uses the X form factor then wouldn't that be easier to hold with one hand? Maybe an X based form factor for a larger phone will actually be better for you to use?
Yup, the info shows the 8 Plus and X, their two highest priced phones sold the most. They also owned 8 of the 10 top smartphone sales in Q2. Their bad decisions are going to catch up one day.
I didn't pick the X because I like to let new tech mature for a year or so before I join in. I'm pretty anti early-adopter.
I see it more about the cost.Also, nearly one in five purchases for a phone with a headphone jack
So you assume that everyone made their choice of iPhone solely on the fact that it has a home button...
I have the 7+ and the home button had nothing to do with my decision to buy. I'd love to have FaceID, but I just don't have FaceID money
Well, that's what I did. A colleague just got the 8 plus as she had a 6 that was acting up.
Apple can’t produce enough iPhone X’s to sell @799.
I think your right, jamz is forgetting the new 6.1 inch iPhone, if it’s multicolored like the rumors are saying, well Apple is going to have a great quarter
. I’m getting Xplus, but might pick up a 6.1 iphone 9 as well.
Apple can’t produce enough iPhone X’s to sell @799.
I think your right, jamz is forgetting the new 6.1 inch iPhone, if it’s multicolored like the rumors are saying, well Apple is going to have a great quarter.
I’m getting Xplus, but might pick up a 6.1 iphone 9 as well.
I agree, I expect a monster quarter from Apple in the fall. I considered the 6.1, but wouldn't want to take a step back in regards to the camera. I am likely going with the X Plus, although I told myself the X was the perfect size haha.
I guess it is time to buy glasses then...
As a consumer I'm not interested in FaceID and the notch makes the phone looks cheap and it is ridiculous. The notch is one part that makes me not upgrading my current iPhone.
I honestly cannot believe that. If that wast the case then total sales numbers and other analytical companies would never need to go through the length of sourcing a LOT more data.
minimal data ... minimal accuracy.
500 users is NOT enough to presume the sales data for over 150 million people
I'm curious where this 95% with a 4.4% margin of error is coming from?
A basic statistics course.
Sampling distribution, confidence intervals, Central Limit Theorem, and hypothesis testing.
Results from taking samples didn’t seem right to me either until I took a stats class.
now you're twisting words to fit your narrative. First you said it was the lower cost phones were making up sales...now you say it is the higher priced phones.....
The numbers do not lie. People preferred the legacy model iphones. Of course they will be forced to adopt the new style/models as they will phase out the old models.
Ehh back 3 years ago when I bought my 6 plus with the largest capacity it was near 1000 dollars.
A grand for the iPhone X shouldn’t have shocked anyone.
Despite being an outdated device, the iPhone SE actually increased in sales from June 2017 to 2018. Like I said before, Apple would be be making a mistake if they abandoned the smaller form factor. There is a smaller yet decent sized chunk of the population who want smaller devices.