I have a single Apple ID. Of course, it's not actually being verbose about why it's failing, so it's kind of hard to diagnose.
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iPhone 4S Sales Top 4 Million as 25 Million Users Move to iOS 5
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I have a single Apple ID. Of course, it's not actually being verbose about why it's failing, so it's kind of hard to diagnose.
Which gestures?
I have an iPad 2 and no gestures were taken away with the update to iOS 5. In fact, several new multitouch gestures were added.
Sadly, I would never expect Apple to be verbose as to why it is failing. There may be a log written when trying to connect. AppSwitch allows you to see the console (not sure if there are others).
So name one.
I'm sure there are some videogames that have maybe sold like that (maybe), but the real test is to name any one thing that costs $200 minimum that has sold this well this fast.
So name one.
I haven't found anything yet that tops the 4 million iPhones. The best selling phone of all time was the Nokia 1100 with about 250 million sold, but the iPhone will break that record. Nokia has sold over a billion phones, but that is a many different models where the iPhone is selling these incredible numbers with one model. The only other product that I can think of that would have sold big numbers upon release would be the various versions of Windows over the years.
That's just the beginning. Piper Jaffrey predicted that most (~65%) 3GS users would upgrade, which alone should be almost 19 million.
They might've been low. AT&T exit surveys showed that 3/4s (73%) of their first sales were upgrades from previous iPhones.
It's been a long time since an upgrade was available.
Out of 250 million iOS devices sold, only 10% on the latest OS version.
Where are the handwringing articles about fragmentation
Not only that, but if you read that article carefully, you'll see that Samsung is talking about units shipped, not units sold. When they say "units sold to the channel," that's just a way of saying those are just the number they've shipped to stores.
And keep in mind, the market is full of choice, cheaper options and options at all price points. But Apple achieves what they do with a closed business model, unlicensed OS, with at most two models (only one, in this case.)
Well to match the Nokia 1100 Apple would have to continue to sell a single model for a long enough period of time.
Under iOS 4.3, Xcode would allow one to enable gestures on the original iPad. iOS 5 removes the option for gestures on the iPad 1, and thus takes away functionality that was previously available. I have really gotten used to gestures on my original iPad, and I have not upgraded to iOS 5 specifically for this reason.
I don't know if the Nokia 1100 was unchanged for all the years it was sold. But the iPhone is still basically one phone that gets updated each year so it's sales record is outstanding when it is being compared to companies that sell many different models of phones. Give credit where it is due. The iPhone rules the smartphone market and that's nothing to sneeze at.
All joking aside, the 4S is an outstanding product and the demand is easy to understand. And this is just the beginning with Siri, it will get better and better with time. My two favorite Apple products are the Macbook Air and the iPhone. Both are gems and at the top of their class. No trolling in that statement, just facts.
i feel greatly disappointed in t-mobile for not trying to get the iPhone 4s, honestly they messed up by trying to compete with it. Now they have no other choice but to sell themselves over to AT&T or Sprint.
I didn't realize you could just "demand" iPhone distribution. I thought it was Apple's choice.
Bad choice indeed, T-Mobile
This simply is not true people. Why do we feel compelled to spread fud?...
IOS 5 runs just fine on the iPhone 4 and first gen iPad.
250 million iOS devices sold as of June. Assuming 250 iOS devices are able to run iOS 5, 25M upgrades is 10%. In a little over a week.
That is ****ing Impressive. Sorry, you are dead wrong.
Windows 7 was released in October of 2009. After two weeks of release and following months of free beta it had about 3.6% overall market usage (not % of machines upgraded, which is guaranteed lower than that, but browser usage) according to http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-upgrade-marketshare-mac,8977.html
10% for a major OS upgrade is Damned ****ing Impressive, no matter which side you butter your bread on.
To some degree maybe. But there's a sizeable demographic out there that can't afford - or doesn't want to pay for - a smartphone with a more expensive monthly plan. Even if that expensive smartphone is subsidised to the point where it's free, the user is paying for it (one way or another), it's just a question of whether it's up front or monthly.
Add to that there's a lot of people who just want a small, simple phone with great battery life; they'd be hard to win over with a large iPhone, ever-increasing in complexity, that lasts about a day in typical usage.
Don't get me wrong, I think Apple will be hugely successful in selling to existing iPhone users and will continue to grow in the overall smartphone market. But outside the smartphone market is going to be a tougher sell.
Fact: Smart phones are useful.
Question: How many people in the world could use a smartphone.
Answer: Everyone with access to electricity and a cell network.
The saturation point concern is really because you are probably focused on the U.S. market where there might be some of that. Yes, the vast majority of folks in the world couldn't hope to afford an iPhone. But the minority that can is growing, even in this economy, every day as the third world continues to get stronger and stronger economically. Also smart phones continue to get more and more useful and people continue to get more and more tech savy (old folk die and young folk mature into tech savy adults).
Really think about Windows and how much it is used worldwide. That is basically Apple's saturation point.
No it doesn't. Not even in the slightest.
Apple sells 20 million iPhones PER QUARTER.
Samsung sold 30 million Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide since the line's launch in 2010.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20121361-17/samsung-sells-30-million-galaxy-s-galaxy-s-ii-phones/
Impressive (for an iPhone competitor), but not quite dwarfing Apple yet.
30 million what? Are we talking about a single model, multiple models? A day, a week, a year?
Anyone can throw a number out. Without any details, it means nothing (I'm not attacking you, I just think it is a little suspect to throw down a number like that without any details at all).
If everyone is scrambling, it's industry changing.
Apple may only make a small advancement on what is already out there, and often isn't the first to the table, but it's often an important little difference, which is the tipping point for many, and makes apple succeed where others have been failing. Android can hear your words, but siri has a brain.
Android voice is impressive to me since i've been stuck with crappy iphone voice control, and I have wished for it's awesomeness many times while driving, and apple had to scramble to catch up to them, but nobody seems to use it much saying people don't want to talk to their phones, and typing is faster, now apple copies it and adds a little brain.
Siri is the turning point when it can do some of my thinking and do many tasks faster or with less hassle, but I think i'd be using androids a bunch too. we'll see if the world looks back at siri as the great turning point in speech when people started to use voice control. I love how siri can "wake me up in 8 hrs" but can't wait until I can say "and make sure I get up"
While it's true that the 4S is selling like hotcakes, the Galaxy S2 is a terrific phone and well worthy of consideration if you are looking at upgrading.