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iPhone 4S Sales Top 4 Million as 25 Million Users Move to iOS 5
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I think that most of us are not early adopters and don't want to deal with bogged-down servers and the like. We like to let things settle down a bit before we take the big leap.
We both know that there is no source for that, but we also both know it it largely true. I believe it for my reasons, you don't believe it for other reasons. People lined up literally by the millions to buy a product sight unseen without even touching it.
What a flop. They would have sold 10 million if it was an iPhone5.
I think not! Only those with very small disfunctional brains would base an expensive purchase decision on a product's name.
Ok lemme try. People researched the product extensively before lining up. I will provide no sources to prove this but we both know this is true.
Wow, what an amazing lack of perspective some people have that TWENTY FIVE MILLION gets an "only".
Indeed! Try working on a 3G. I've been waiting quite a while for this upgrade (and, living in Ireland, I still am!)
True - though don't forget the 4S is only on sale in a subset of the countries in which the 4 is on sale. If the 4S was on sale in the same countries, then presumably the sales would be much higher again.
Remember, most people still have feature phones. Apple can still grow beyond the 'smartphone' segment.
Let's put it in this perspective-
A lot of people see the Samsung Galaxy S II as a top tier Android phone right?
It took them 85 days to sell 5 million units.
The iPhone 4S did about that in just little under a week.
Source: http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/26/samsu...milestone-10-million-galaxy-s-ii-phones-sold/
A lot of people see the Samsung Galaxy S II as a top tier Android phone right?
It took them 85 days to sell 5 million units.
The iPhone 4S did about that in just little under a week.
Source: http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/26/samsu...milestone-10-million-galaxy-s-ii-phones-sold/
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Than why did you call it a fact?
That's just crap.
Some people. For actual information instead of your fanboy fantasy, we can look at an actual survey.
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/1...-line-reveals-record-crowd-and-other-tidbits/
71% wanted it for the upgraded camera or Siri. So much for your facts.
It is kind of interesting. This is my first iPhone. I have countless other Apple products, but they are less visible since they stay home most of the time.
Since getting the phone (coming from Android) a lot of my friends have given me the business about it. So far I have been unwilling to engage in the Ford vs. Chevy-style debate with them about phones, but these numbers are really all that anyone needs to know IMO.
I certainly don't recall seeing a reaction like this to anything that runs Android - not even a fraction of it. People can say whatever they want about the folks purchasing these phones, the sales numbers don't lie. You don't achieve this kind of success with brainwashing and tomfoolery. Apple clearly knows what they are doing.
Since getting the phone (coming from Android) a lot of my friends have given me the business about it. So far I have been unwilling to engage in the Ford vs. Chevy-style debate with them about phones, but these numbers are really all that anyone needs to know IMO.
I certainly don't recall seeing a reaction like this to anything that runs Android - not even a fraction of it. People can say whatever they want about the folks purchasing these phones, the sales numbers don't lie. You don't achieve this kind of success with brainwashing and tomfoolery. Apple clearly knows what they are doing.
Why do they need to see it and touch it? It's an Apple product. They know what to expect, because they know Apple has their ish together. They know what's in store for them. This is not a risky proposition for the consumer.
Wow, get a grip buddy. Siri is cool, I'll admit I'm impressed with how well integrated it is, but Android has had much of Siri's abilities for a while. I can guarantee you the vast majority of people will not use it much. They will fire it Up to impress their friends once in a while. After the novelty wears off, people will just not use it much. Other than that, it's a slightly improved version of the iPhone 4. It's a good phone, but let's not go crazy.
The iPad was "phenomenal, and industry shaking", but the 4S is just another good smartphone. There are a number of other excellent phones available at the moment as well. Just keepin' it real.
Wow, get a grip buddy. Siri is cool, I'll admit I'm impressed with how well integrated it is, but Android has had much of Siri's abilities for a while. I can guarantee you the vast majority of people will not use it much. They will fire it to impress their friends once in a while. After the novelty wears off, people will just not use it. Other than that, it's a slightly improved version of the iPhone 4. It's a good phone, but let's not go crazy.
The iPad was "phenomenal, and industry shaking", but the 4S is just another good smartphone. There are a number of other excellent phones available at the moment as well. Just keepin' it real.
dude, I am loving siri, for directions while driving, lots of math questions are quicker than punching in on calculator, and I find there are lots of things I don't feel like tap tap tapping lots of buttons or typing stuff out. I will use it lots, and probably more as it's capabilities expand. certain things are quicker to do without siri, but i find lots of things are faster with siri's help. I love how I can tell it to "wake me up in 8 hours" and it does the math and sets the alarm for the right time.
we'll see how this works out, but I thing you are wrong, i think siri will ramp up and own like ipod, and be called industry shaking... yet another thing that others did before apple, and nobody cared about or used because it sucked, then apple did it right and owned.
Except you said "If the iPhone 4S was exactly the same as the iPhone 4, people still would have lined up to buy them. The average user had no idea what changes were made to the phone." Despite your attempts to shift the argument, the survey proved your statement wrong
You're the expert. If you say it, it must be fact and everyone else if wrong. Carry on. The survey proved that the people in one line wanted a better camera and Siri.
Another problem I have. iMessage won't activate for me. Didn't on my 3GS, doesn't on my 4S. Keeps saying "problem activating iMessage, turn it off and on again."
Same for Facetime.
I think Siri is cool. But just to keep things in perspective, on my Galaxy S2 I can say "navigate to wherever" and it will fire up Google Maps and give you turn-by-turn voice directions with a moving 3d map. I can also send text messages and emails and it will solve math problems, define words, play music, call contacs etc... Where Siri shines is in the calendar/ reminder area, "remind me to take out the cat when I get home" etc...
You can bet that Google is working feverishly to improve their voice control, so they will probably catch up in that area soon. So again, I think Apple did a great job of implementing Siri, but I don't see it as anything earth shaking or industry changing.
I doubt it's the Beta thing that makes it slowler than actually just typing out search engine queries.
"I don't know about that, do you want to search the web for it ?"... uh... at this point, I would have been better off to search the web for it myself rather than ask you ?
There's 1 bug I attribute to the beta stage though :
- "Call Contact Name at home" works fine. Siri gets the right contact, dials the right number.
- "E-mail Contact Name at home" results in the funnies. Usually, Siri will pop up a new e-mail with the subject line being : "completely messed up contact name at home" and ask "To whom shall I send it ?".
Siri doesn't recognize any of my contacts for e-mail. None. No matter how easily pronounceable their names are and yet has no problem even with the hard to spell crap when calling contacts. Why ? That is a bug to sort out and something that's "beta" about it. But the slowness, confirmations and inefficiencies are just par for the course for Voice control. Sometimes, it is just faster to type things out.
Not to mention the point about "Natural conversation with the phone". Another scenario that caused problems :
- "Call Contact Name". "Which number to you want to use, mobile or home ?". Fine, let's play around with "natural" language and just talk to this thing as if it were human instead of a glorified Voice Control system. "Nevermind". "Which number to you want to use, mobile or home ?". "I changed my mind". "Which number to you want to use, mobile or home ?". "Bugger that, don't call anyone". "Which number to you want to use, mobile or home ?". Rince and repeat for a good 3 minutes of trying "natural" language ways of cancelling an action. The only way I got Siri to stop bugging me was to issue the rather plain and dull "Cancel" command. I thought this wasn't "Voice Control" but rather "speak naturally to your phone ?".
All of this together still leaves me with the same opinion as before : Siri is a gimmick. It's a nice thing to show off, doesn't quite work well in real world scenarios. We're not in the 24th century yet and I can't write this post to the Captain's Log for now.
(wonder how low this post will reach... imagine that, someone actually using a function and criticizing it! I want to point out to anyone wanting to downrank me to oblivion : Have you used Siri ? I have).
Any chance you have an accent, coming from Quebec and all? U.S. English seems to be working best, probably optimized first.
I actually saw some Scottish comedians in a video trying to use a voice controlled elevator; pretty funny.
Another problem I have. iMessage won't activate for me. Didn't on my 3GS, doesn't on my 4S. Keeps saying "problem activating iMessage, turn it off and on again."
Same for Facetime.
Do you have another Apple ID you can try? If it didn't work across devices, and you used the same Apple ID I would think there is something wrong with the Apple ID.
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So name one.
CoD sells like crazy, don't know if they have hit 4 million in a weekend though.