These are such ugly phones, which would be okay if they were actually low cost phones that were able to be purchased by people with less income. I don't think it's a bad thing to see the orders reduced and hopefully phased out!
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Foxconn's Zhengzhou Factory to Reportedly Cease Production of iPhone 5c
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Agreed, there is a big difference in specs but not much differentiation in price. I also think a lot of people like the idea of the Touch ID and the 5c of course doesn't have it.
I remember those days as well. Hell, I remember launching a game on the Commodore 64, and then going to eat lunch while it loaded
My how times have changed!
Okay maybe not the same specifications but all those things you mentioned are inconsequential. Its CPU is not faster, the display isn't better, the back camera (the one people actually use) is not better. It runs the same OS, the same Apps.
Nobody saying iPhone 5C is bad product. It is good given what it is. It just priced wrong. Wrong price made iPhone 5C entirely meaningless. I rather shell out $100 more for iPhone 5S or I will go cheap for Nexus 5.
Not really. It's selling at the same price as the iPhone 5 would have at this point in time.
5S should have been a top logistic priority while 5C should be considered as hobby phone
And I'm sure the 5S does have top priority.
Making the 5C doesn't hinder the production of the 5S. That's like saying "I've been healthy for so many years, maybe I'll get sick for a while so that others can be well again."
The 5S is constrained because the Touch ID sensors are in high demand and hard to produce. There were some articles about yield problems and defective sensors earlier on MR. That's the part that's holding up the rest of the iPhone 5S production, that's where the bottleneck is.
The production of the 5C has zero effect on how many 5S are created, because they use different manufacturing processes.
The price difference may be meaningless for those who are planning to get the 5S right off the bat, but it is completely relevant if people are on the fence between buying an iPhone vs a competing Android phone.
Not only at mid-range prize.
I own a 3gs and a 4, and am looking for a new smartphone. Almost decided to buy the Sony Xperia Z1. A great looking smartphone, with an excellent build and technical specs.
article headline: a bit of yellow journalism, perhaps?
Am I the only one who wonders why the headline is
"Foxconn's Zhengzhou Factory to Reportedly Cease Production of iPhone 5c"
and not
"Foxconn will reportedly shift the Zhengzhou Factory facility's manufacturing efforts towards the iPhone 5s" ???
Am I the only one who wonders why the headline is
"Foxconn's Zhengzhou Factory to Reportedly Cease Production of iPhone 5c"
and not
"Foxconn will reportedly shift the Zhengzhou Factory facility's manufacturing efforts towards the iPhone 5s" ???
True, most of us here on MR forums want power under the hood, myself included. I think the 5c may get a lot of holiday sales. My point about 5c pricing is that Apple kept that same pricing as years past with the contract price of 199 for base flagship, 99 for prior year base, and free for 2 year old base model.
What kind of warped logic is that. So they spend millions on R&D, marketing, etc, etc to build the 5c just as a trojan horse to sell more 5s models. Get real. The 5c is over priced and everyone knows it. Another Tim Cook big mistake. He needs to go.
No, not really. If your statment is true, then iPhone 5C will be more successful then it is. iPhone 5C priced at $600 here in Canada if you buy unlocked. Samsung Galayx S4, HTC One, Motto X and such is priced similar. All of them offer alot more than iPhone 5C could. If price is concer, then these people will never consider iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, they will go iPhone 4S. If price is not concer, most people will choose iPhone 5S, even for these people considering swtiching from iPhone to Android.
Given the narrow price difference between iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S offer much more than iPhone 5C, it is silly to not shell out $100 more for more featured iPhone 5S.
If the price difference is $200 and priced around $499 instead of $599 in Canada, then iPhone 5S might be success
Quit making stuff up about what you think the 5C was supposed to be. Bottom line is Apple never said the 5C was a cheap phone for emerging markets (or whatever else Wall Street claimed this phone would be).
Funny though. I've yet to see a 5S in the wild and yet I've seen quite a lot of the 5C in many different colours.
Also when I get mine out of my pocket people are always fascinated by it and love the way it feels.
I don't think cutting production means that it has failed, remember there was also a report that they'd made a lot of them prior to launch. They've probably just got enough in stock now, they can't just keep making them forever.
I know it's in a different skin, etc. I just prefer the the look of the 5 over the 5C and it sounds like other consumers feel the same way. Remember, the 4S sold very well as an entry phone when the 5 came out.
If people are buying the 5S instead of the 5C, this is not really a problem for Apple.
It is if they have a big stockpile of unsold 5c's.
Also think that Apple's a victim of their own marketing success. Gone are the days when they sold those cute colorful ibooks and imacs and a white plastic macbook was a common sight in Starbucks.
But Apple started a pretty relentless campaign that from now on the standard materials associated with Apple would be "brushed aluminum," "glass," and "retina display" (as opposed to "HD" from other companies). So now "plastic" is associated with "cheap," and even the MBA is suffering from some of this prejudice as everyone now wants a computer with "retina display" and I've seen more than a few people criticize the "cheap plastic screen" of the MBA as well as the unattractive chassis.
The 5C is a fine little phone but again, marketing couldn't just market it as a budget phone perfect if you have a teen daughter inclined to drop and shatter glass phones on concrete. Instead it had to be "unapologetically plastic" (as if there was something to apologize for) and not only that, this plastic was super-special magical plastic unlike the plastic of other Android devices.
But Apple started a pretty relentless campaign that from now on the standard materials associated with Apple would be "brushed aluminum," "glass," and "retina display" (as opposed to "HD" from other companies). So now "plastic" is associated with "cheap," and even the MBA is suffering from some of this prejudice as everyone now wants a computer with "retina display" and I've seen more than a few people criticize the "cheap plastic screen" of the MBA as well as the unattractive chassis.
The 5C is a fine little phone but again, marketing couldn't just market it as a budget phone perfect if you have a teen daughter inclined to drop and shatter glass phones on concrete. Instead it had to be "unapologetically plastic" (as if there was something to apologize for) and not only that, this plastic was super-special magical plastic unlike the plastic of other Android devices.