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Wow. Sales for the XS and XS Max must be REALLY bad.

I’ve been an iPhone guy since the beginning. I’ve owned nearly every iteration.

I didn’t upgrade to the X last year and this year I went a little crazy and ordered a Pixel 3 XL.
Yes you are crazy! Pixel is far inferior in both hardware, software and ecosystem. But hey have fun. Everybody I know is loving X/Xs/Xr this is real life benchmark.
 
If they produce another Xr next year, I'll upgrade from my X. I'm not a camera buff and don't take many pictures, so I don't mind losing the other lens. It's not as bulky as the Max. It fits right in where I want the size to be. I'd probably get yellow. I don't know why.
you gonna downgrade from OLED to LCD?
 
Just need the share price to tank some more and they'll resurrect the SE.

The market - SMH. Since this news it did the opposite of what SE wishers want; a devastating quarter or year to make Apple shift from the $1000 iPhones/phablets!:eek:
 
Apple's VP said. Figures.

How is this an indication of anything except that iPhone XS and XS Max are not selling well?

No real numbers, and comparative figures from before.

He gives a relative sales figure, and the share holders are supposed to be elated that Apple has done something great with this year's iPhones!

It worked; since this statement from around noon today, AAPL has gone up $6, a near 4% jump for the day!:rolleyes:

"How is this an indication of anything except that iPhone XS and XS Max are not selling well?"

This doesn't indicate success or failure of the XS or XS Max at all. It means nothing more than what was said => the XR is the best-selling model every day since it launched. Unless we know what internal management's initial forecasts were, we don't know if the XR / XS / XS Max are a success (or not).
 
In a three horse race, that statement is another way of telling the world there are less people buying the more expensive $999+ iPhone XS/Max phones than the $799+ iPhone XR.

Here's hoping next year they stop the insane $999+ iPhones and bring those prices back down to $749+ (which was the starting price point of the iPhone 8 last year).
 
Wow. Sales for the XS and XS Max must be REALLY bad.

I’ve been an iPhone guy since the beginning. I’ve owned nearly every iteration.

I didn’t upgrade to the X last year and this year I went a little crazy and ordered a Pixel 3 XL.

And that’s what people on here don’t understand, when loyal, long term customers are leaving, it should be a huge indicator that the ship has problems. Obviously it won’t crash over night, but just like Microsoft found out in 2013, Balmer’s 10 year leadership drove them into the ground. I see all the bad decisions that Tim makes and they are starting to add up.

Andriod is a very good operating system right now, I know lots of people who made the same decision as you and are very very happy.
 
De Ja Vu same story as last year "the new phone is not selling well" - then in the new year Apple will announce the sales figures of the XS as the best selling iPhone ever.... Its all about the share price when you are a public company its best to under estimate then beat the estimates in the new year year. Apple never releases estimates until they have to report them in the next quarter
 
The Xr offers the best value proposition.
Same performance.
Not quite the same camera.
No 3D Touch.
Made from aluminum and not stainless.

Not a lot of difference unless you need one of those things.
Most don't need them.
Phone for the iPhone masses.
 
"How is this an indication of anything except that iPhone XS and XS Max are not selling well?"

This doesn't indicate successful / failure of the XS or XS Max at all. It means nothing more than what was said => the XR is the best-selling model every day since it launched. Unless we know what internal management's initial forecasts were, we don't know if the XR / XS / XS Max are a success (or not).
The rumors were that iPhone 8 was outselling iPhone Xr. This shows the rumors are wrong, just like when they claimed iPhone X wasn't selling last year.
 
In a three horse race, that statement is another way of telling the world there are less people buying the more expensive $999+ iPhone XS/Max phones than the $799+ iPhone XR.

Here's hoping next year they stop the insane $999+ iPhones and bring those prices back down to $749+ (which was the starting price point of the iPhone 8 last year).
It's also telling the world that people are buying the more expensive XR vs the cheaper iPhone 8 / 8 Plus. So what? When Apple announced the XR at the September event, Tim Cook even said the XR was about bringing X-series features to more people. So they expected more people would buy the XR vs the XS-series of iPhones.
 
In a three horse race, that statement is another way of telling the world there are less people buying the more expensive $999+ iPhone XS/Max phones than the $799+ iPhone XR.

Here's hoping next year they stop the insane $999+ iPhones and bring those prices back down to $749+ (which was the starting price point of the iPhone 8 last year).

Apple's 2018 iPhone lineup:
iPhone 7 $449
iPhone 7 Plus $569
iPhone 8 $599
iPhone 8 Plus $699
*iPhone Xr $749
iPhone Xs $999
iPhone Xs Max $1099

*Best selling
 
Joswiak did not comment on reports of iPhone XR production cuts, and instead reiterated his statement that the device is Apple's best selling iPhone at the current point in time./QUOTE]

Because the XS and XS Max are so damed expensive. Doesn't take much to work that out.
 

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