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Foxconn's Zhengzhou Factory to Reportedly Cease Production of iPhone 5c
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You forgot the words "in my opinion" there are some of us who think they look and feel way better than the 5/5S. I prefer mine over my 5 especially due to the comfort factor.
I do get nervous showing it to people though as they're slippery as hell.
And we have zero evidence that the 5C is selling less than the 4S did at this point last year.
Did you forget that Steve Jobs had to reduce the price of the original iPhone? And the Apple TV. Oh and how about when the first MBA was $1800? That wasn't overpriced? Quit with the stupid hysterics.
As I said in the other thread: do you have any indication about "lack of sales" ?
All this news are about a change in the production rate after the startup.
80,000 = poor product?!?
They only need to manufacture 80,000 a day?!? What a horrible selling product!
Keeping in mind that's after they were overproducing at 328,000 a day!!
Gary
They only need to manufacture 80,000 a day?!? What a horrible selling product!
Keeping in mind that's after they were overproducing at 328,000 a day!!
Gary
I guess even 12-year-old girls have deep pockets these days. If they really want to sell the 5C, get rid of the cheesy colors and add a black option. Of course I'm not sure how the profit margins compare to the 5S.
Wow and this should be the indication of a failure ?
I can see quite the opposite: lot of people looking at the 5c because 5s seems to be identical at 5 ....
Since when the user impression over a single store in the world says anything about the market ?
I would like to see the actual sell rate of iPhone 5c and compares it to last year sell rate of iPhone 4S (after iPhone 5 launch).
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Perhaps because there are people who don't want an android phone ?
Who the hell cares it is cheaper if it runs Android ?
Apple should have gone with only two products: 5s for $199, 4c for free with contract. Period. $100 is a joke, but $200 will make people at least think twice.
Doesn't really matter if they have deep pockets. I have a friend whose daughter is fifteen, and shattered three iphones in their metal/glass iteration before he finally put his foot down and bought her a plastic iphone 5c. But he just bought her a brand new ipad Air, so I don't know how long this will last.
This isn't a "kids today" rant. It's just that electronics (particularly phones) have replaced Cabbage Patch Dolls/Nike Air Jordans/Playstations as the must-have things parents buy their kids nowadays.
Not sure what Apple were thinking with this one? Maybe if you work at a company like Apple you start to believe your own hype and truly believe any old crap you produce will sell. I think Jobs would have got this one right and said "no way". Hopefully we will see a hefty portion of the price slashed on the 5C (but I doubt it). If it were me I'd cut my losses and get rid of the whole 5C range, IMO it looks gash. I'd rather buy an old iPhone 5 then you use a 5C.
Free on a say a $25/35 new contract would have been better. They would have had millions of new Apple adopters for now and in to the future.
Apple should make the 5C for free as a bridge to kill the 3.5 inch screen so developers can focus in just one screen size. Also app size will be smaller overall for user.
+1 on that.
PS to Apple: Get some insight on market dynamics outside the US. You're in an ivory tower!
loving my 5c, will upgrade to the iPhone 6 next year, the big change for me is moving from a 3.5 screen to a 4.
The big thing about this years iPhone 5S is the finger print reader, and we all know this is a Beta for eventually being used with a banking chip
The big thing about this years iPhone 5S is the finger print reader, and we all know this is a Beta for eventually being used with a banking chip
C'mon dude, I used to read and write emails, and browse the web, on 2.7" displays with crap resolution until a few years ago.
Now you are passing along the message that we need a ridiculous , huge device like a Note 2 (or name one of the several android phablet) to read something ?
Now a 4" display with a reasonably high resolution isn't enough for a SMARTPHONE (we are not speaking about a tablet here !) ???
I'd like the iPhone 6 to have a 4.5-4.7" display, but nothing more than that ....
But maybe Apple doesn't want people to think twice? Maybe it wants to guide them towards the 5S? Maybe it wants to make the decision easy for them to make?
Also don't see why so many people are blaming Tim Cook. Tim Cook has always been a supply/finance guy. I don't think Steve Jobs ever considered that he'd have to leave Apple one day ... permanently. He picked Cook because he thought Cook could make the trains run on time while he (Jobs) was gone.
If you read the Isaacson bio Steve was pretty delusional about his own health all the way till the end.
If you read the Isaacson bio Steve was pretty delusional about his own health all the way till the end.
This isn't a surprise. The question I have though is if the 5c's production quantities are proportionally the same level that iPhone 4S production quantities were at at this same period of time after the 5 came out? Since the 5c has outright replaced the 5.
I'd expect the 5c to have more popularity than the 4S did after the 5 came out by virtue of the 5c being a "new" device, but unless the 5c is selling terribly compared to the 4S before than this isn't much of a story outside of making it appear like the 5c is a device that may be underperforming expectations.
I'd expect the 5c to have more popularity than the 4S did after the 5 came out by virtue of the 5c being a "new" device, but unless the 5c is selling terribly compared to the 4S before than this isn't much of a story outside of making it appear like the 5c is a device that may be underperforming expectations.
Hopefully they'll learn their lesson and go with a 200 on contract (649) and a free on contract (449-499). Maybe trow out the iPod Touch to drive sales of the low end one.