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Higher-End 4.7 and 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 to Get Sapphire Displays, Higher Price Tags
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iPhones sales beat estimates the past two quarters. The stock split really did nothing to invigorate the share price.
why? if scarcity is an issue, i wouldnt expect it to be. touchID was only in the 5s, not the c, both of which were new skus.
The 5C did not 'bomb' and neither is it a garbage device.
However, I'm all for lineup clarity. If there are going to be two screen sizes, they need to leave it there. Sure, pick capacity, but not high-end AND low-end for both screen sizes.
correct -- the 5c was the 2nd or 3rd best-selling handset in US carrier stores. it did very, very well. only the pundits who insisted it would fail dont like to admit this.
Oh but apple will no doubt make it thinner with the same amount of battery life
I don't put stupid screen protectors either
In fact apple needs to make a more durable casing. One that doesn't chip nor crack(glass)
Seriously apple gets such a pass on their crappy paint that flakes off.
How about work on those issues first
The top 10% of the population has well over half of all the money. It's very profitable to have products that cater to these customers and that are completely unaffordable to the bottom 50% or more.
What's a brand or a line of phones that is considered luxurious but sells at a volume that breaks 6 figures?
Yeah, I completely understand. It would be nice for folks like you to have certain high end options across model lines, so it was a totally open choice of size + display + etc.
I guess well see in less than a month
Absolutely. But it also makes sense not to dilute the brand image. BMW doesn't make a 10k car because of a conscious decision, not because they can't.
I still don't get it. Who says the technology in either will be bad? It won't so what's the point of crying? Jeez, both will be good phones and I don't care what either have. I got a 5c over the 5s. I have had no problems whatsoever with this phone, then again I don't worry about what someone else got. It's about whether mine does the job or not and I have yet to see a new iphone that didn't..
To me it seems childish to worry about if if one model has slightly better hardware unless there's proof of the phone not working well. Makes me think of kids on a playground worrying about what everyone else has.
completely incorrect. it outsold blackberry, windows phone, and every android flagship phone. heres another appleinsider story you chose not to link to:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...indows-phone-and-every-android-flagship-in-q4
...within the top-3 handsets at the US carriers.
not a flop or a failure. a massive success. sold more than the last-years-model slot (iphone 4s) did from the previous year.
Cook's word "mix" is corporatespeak for "sale did not match our expectations; we made too many 5C's and not enough 5S's." If those people who like to quote Cook on that want to take it as something else like a lemming, that's fine, but financial world who parses corporatespeak did not. Having been in the PR world, I'm with the financial world's interpretation. Executives are never crystal clear about mediocre news unless they have a legal obligation to be so. Cook did not here.
The discounts on the 5C in Jan were not tiny ones, like the 5S, they were rather significant. And yes, all those Android sales you see are because it's not doing all that well in the U.S. where the iPhone rules. Take a look at Samsung stock because of not so great sales of its Android phones in the U.S., esp. the Galaxy.
Apple know that iphone 5c was a fail compared to 5s given the high price. Its crazy to think that Apple will increase the prices given that all smarthphones got cheaper in the recent years. Apple is trying to enter deeper in China, India and other huge markets where the price is an important factor. And when I say price i mean non contract device.
No, it means that the consumer, faced with the choice between the 5c and the 5s choose the 5s at a rate higher than Apple's expectations. The 5c massively increased sales in the midrange segment for Apple (look at 1 year old 4s sales).
What is not doing well in the US? Owning more than 50% of the market with a year over year increase in sales? Because those two things are fact.
Luxury is 4X more than you can afford (for all categories of you). The guys who own the 15 meter power boats think the 30 meter yachts are luxury. The guy driving the 15 year old beater thinks a brand new Camry is luxury. And so on.
Want me to show you the data? You don't seem to believe me on information that is publicly available.
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You don't believe Apple is considered the luxury phone brand in the world?
Like said, the most popular phone on the planet can't be a luxury item by definition. It's the Walmart of smartphones.
Exactly; over 95% of the iPhone user base have no clue what a sapphire glass is and what the benefits are. And over 80% don't know that the iPhone is increasing to 4.7". Many people will be genuinely shocked during the announcement.