Interesting, Apple cut the price of Iphone Xr in JAPAN to boost sales.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/not-so...xr-to-boost-sales-1542896625?mod=hp_lead_pos6
https://www.wsj.com/articles/not-so...xr-to-boost-sales-1542896625?mod=hp_lead_pos6
Interesting, Apple cut the price of Iphone Xr in JAPAN to boost sales.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/not-so...xr-to-boost-sales-1542896625?mod=hp_lead_pos6
Interesting, Apple cut the price of Iphone Xr in JAPAN to boost sales.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/not-so...xr-to-boost-sales-1542896625?mod=hp_lead_pos6
I doubt that this is anything more than a regional thing. Apparently Apple are also going to start selling the IPhone X again in Japan.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/22/apple-cuts-price-iphone-xr-japan/
Except for the fact that the only phone that you would buy is made with the best components from another company.Well, increasing prices every year is not sustainable in the long run - at least if you want sales in the triple-digit millions every year - but neither is the Android hardware ecosystem that relies on Apple for ideas for new phone-designs and people buying new mobile-phones basically every year.
None of the Asian handset-makers has a service-business like Apple. They have to pay Google (and MSFT) for the Android-Google-Apps. What do you think are they making money on?
Maybe they'll siphon-off all your data - but that isn't really sustainable either.
Apple assumes, you're using the device for five or six years. Else they'd never have backported iOS12 to the 5S.
Once the Chinese have sold a cheap phone to every Indian, what are they going to make money on?
It's not that people in Android-land are spending all the saved money on Apps and accessories.
Are you really going to throw-away (resale value is terrible) a perfectly working (sort-of) OnePlus phone just to get a newer Android-version?
OK, they use cheaper flash with less underprovisioning , so you'll get random crashes after a year or eighteen months and you will cave in and upgrade sooner than you want - but how often are going to do that circle-dance before you start to question who got the good end of the deal?
I admit, my current phone is a 4S (really planing to upgrade real soon now) and quality of Apple-devices has gone down since then, too. I don't know. But for now, I'm convinced I'll not get any more value from a phone than from Apple. Four-digit prices or not.
If I get a phone with an A12, I certainly won't upgrade before it stops being supported by iOS-upgrades - and probably wait a year longer.
I think the move to increase profits over slowing sales was the wrong move. Sure it will have a short term affect of improving (or propping up) profits, but in the long term, people will either look for less expensive options, hold off, or just switch to android.
Too many phones and terrible names now. Apple is supposed to keep it simple. I love the Xs Max because of the size but wouldn’t have upgraded if the X was this size.
Hate the names this year. My friends who are not techy have no idea the difference now.
Apparently the XS is selling poorly too...
https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/19/apple-cuts-orders-iphone-xs-xr/
But we heard this last year about the X too.
End of January when Apple reports its EPS the real story will be told Unfortunately there will not be a breakdown in terms of how many soldInvestors and news outlets are reporting that Apple is slowing down production for the iPhone XR, and on that metric, imply that sales might not be good. I'm not defending Apple against this idea - their high prices probably would yield lower demand overall.
So then, why is it the phone that people seem to be most interested in talking about? I seldom see discussion about the XS, but all over YouTube and Twitter, I get the sense that the XR generates a lot of discussion. Not only that, it is mostly positive.
It's possible that the algorithmic news feeds are simply creating an echo chamber but I wanted to see what other people's thoughts were.
Personally, I'm not upgrading my old iPhone until it breaks and bricks. I'm Apple's nightmare
If they do discount they will pass those to retailers who will cut prices, but it is unlikely they will cut prices in their own retail stores. If they do that would be a first and more telling than anything investors could report.
Fact is we don't know how poorly it is selling and since they are no longer going to provide numbers we likely won't ever know for sure. We've seen these reports over and over with almost every model and yet some how Apple has managed to rake in billions!
Like I said in another post is this the year that greed and overcharging catches up to them?
I think the point is that the demographic of people keeping their iPhones longer is growing by the year and it’s something Apple should be a little concerned about and in fact the whole industry should be trying to tackle. If they are happy with their upgrade market shrinking and just keep putting the price of new iPhones up to cover the damage, then I think that’s ignoring the consumer.No, you’re not Apples nightmare, you’re just not their ‘target demographic’ for upgrading. There are hundreds of thousands of people that never upgrade their iPhones and use them until they fail.
The iPhone XR is an inferior product in many ways to the iPhone 8 that it replaces. No surprise it’s not selling well. It’s the new iPhone 5c. It’s either the XS or the XS Max. The XR is a compromised product.
In what way inferior? It's paired with a faster GPU and CPU. And a larger better quality LCD.The iPhone XR is an inferior product in many ways to the iPhone 8 that it replaces. No surprise it’s not selling well. It’s the new iPhone 5c. It’s either the XS or the XS Max. The XR is a compromised product.
But we didn’t hear about this until the summer time, or close to when production of the newer models were about to begin.
And what’s even more odd is Apple is producing the X again. It’s cheaper to produce and is as good as the Xs
https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...duction-resumed-weak-demand-2018-models-rumor