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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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Your still trying to just argue..... Again 75% of the iphone sold did not have FID...fact! That AND price has a lot to do with that. BUT the buying consumers spoke with their wallets........ They purchased older phones ahead of the newest phone. The iphone x only accounted for 17% of iphones sales. The iphone 8 Plus sold better than the X did.
Allot of this has to do with people are slow to adopt new technology and want to hold onto phones with TID more than it has to do with price points imho
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I agree...i think more people like TouchID than they thought would. The iphone X only account for 17% of iphones sales in the article.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 actually only price point.
The rest is opinion you brandishing as fact.
As the article clearly stares.
But you know that.
The SE is a good phone, and there are reasons to keep it around. But those who like it for its smaller size are fooling themselves if they think there’s much demand for small iPhones, especially if they’re priced any higher than they are now.
The SE sells for as little as $99 in the US when locked to prepaid carriers, though I’d guess the majority of sales are probably at $349. In any case, a good portion of that 8% market share are due to price.
If Apple can sell a 4.7” iPhone for SE prices and still make their margin, I think the SE is history. The vast majority of people simply want larger phones, particularly in countries where the phone is the only computer the customer owns.
This is so true. I have been using computers and the internet daily for the past 20+ years and even I have difficulty figuring things around Apple's latest hardware and software. I remember when iMovie first came out, even if you didn't know film editing you could figure it out yourself. It was that simple.
Now you have to jump through hoops
Lol, this chart does nothing but prove there are different cost brackets that people fall into.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.
Not sure why it matters to people if Touch ID or Face ID sold more/less or for whatever reasons. Apple has been pretty clear that Face ID is the future of their platform when it comes to bio-metric security. The options are to adapt or move on.
The mini 4 already costs more than the entry level iPad. No reason it can’t continue at the $399 price point.
The easiest and cheapest refresh would be just a CPU/memory bump. Going from A8/2GB to A11/3GB. That would buy them another 3 years if shelf life. But camera upgrades would be likely, what else I’m not sure. I really don’t think it’ll be a small bezel/FaceID mini Pro type of update but I’d love to be surprised!
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My thinking: buy the expensive new phone that’s untested or buy the third gen product that’s relatively cheaper (still expensive).
I like my iPhone 8, but my 6s was much better...because it had a headphone jack.
Also Apple’s secret weapon isn’t an amazing camera or oled screen. It’s imessage.
I like my iPhone 8, but my 6s was much better...because it had a headphone jack.
Also Apple’s secret weapon isn’t an amazing camera or oled screen. It’s imessage.
People always say Apple products are overpriced, nothing new.
The mini 4—a 2015 model with a 2014 CPU—had an 18% market share at the current price of $399. A refreshed model with up-to-date internals should be able to do at least that well.
No reason to expect a price cut.
I know two people that said they choose the 8 plus because it was better than the X. They said the X was untested and the technology wasn’t finished. They said the X was like a prototype.
You don’t seem to grasp the difference between cumulative vs quarterly sales.
Already posted my sources.
Love these surveys that people take as gospel. Fact is no one know how the X is doing except Apple. last time folks reported survey say X isnt selling, Cook replied the X was the larges selling iPhone every week.
Who cares anyway which model sells more or not? Buy the device you like and move on, no need to reinforce your decision knowing the largest herd is in your area.
Who cares anyway which model sells more or not? Buy the device you like and move on, no need to reinforce your decision knowing the largest herd is in your area.
So CIRP surveyed 500 customers for a couple of months and came up with an “opinion”? I trust Apple ceo more than this company when discussing sales of Apple products.
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.
By the same token, the 6s series is hanging tough as well ... might it be because of the 3.5mm analog headphone port?
Nope, the 6s is there because it's the only 4.7" iphone with a physical home button. That's way more important to iphone buyers than a silly little headphone jack that no one uses.
Nah, just kidding. Honestly, I really don't know why anyone would want to buy a 6s today. The SE is a much better phone, except for folks wanting the 4.7" screen.
Did anyone notice the *increase* of numbers of iPad Mini 4? This should tell Apple something, don't you think? I just love the form factor. Can't see myself holding any other iPad on my hand while reading on the subway.
iPad Mini update is way overdue! Apple wants to increase iPad sales, just add a new A12 and 3 GB of LPDDR4. You do not have even re-design the Mini 3/4 chassis either. Cost Apple nothing to do this since all the component parts are from the September iPhone! Instead of sell it for $400; do it as $600 as the base and top of the line $999.99!