First of all don't ever tell me what or how to think about products when forming an opinion.
Second the 4S solves everything you mentioned in your know-it-all rant.
The 4S has been selling like hot cakes and with the new partnership with China Mobile that will only increase market share. (While providing a compelling reason for users in that marketplace to upgrade next year).
Everything is conjecture at this point and this isn't the first time this rumor has floated around.
To me, in MY opinion, it makes sense financially.
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The problem is that too many people are hung up on the 30 pin connector.
In China that does NOT matter.
Just because it - on the surface - seems like Apple would want to unify the connectors to lightening doesn't mean they'll do so at the expense of profit margins.
The 4S stays in my opinion.
It still does NOT make sense for any reason other than NECESSITY.
I think that's what we're debating at this point: Not whether or not the 4S will remain for a few months in certain markets (it will)....but rather, WHY.
And the WHY has nothing to do with the 4S making sense financially...it makes sense due to the following factors:
1. Limited initial supply of iPhone 5C
2. Much higher demand for 5C than 4S.
3. Did I mention that the 5C is a better iPhone than the 4S and actually
costs less?
So yes, the 4S very likely will still fill voids for a few months until inventory catches up......but Apple is NOT keeping the 4S as a permanent fixture in all channels for another year. Absolutely not.
If there were no such thing as the 5C, this would not be the case. But there is, so it is.
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If you believe that apple is going to discontinue the 4S then why keep upgrading the ios. We're now going to have the 4th ios update for the iPhone 4S.
They should have stopped at ios5 after coming with ios4 and then said if you want a newer ios then buy a new 5 device with the larger screen size. Then developers would no longer have to write apps with two different screen sizes.
Why do they keep kicking the old devices down the road with ios updates?
If they are going to release ios7 for the iPhone 4S with a 30 pin connector then they will keep on selling it through various retailers.
Derpa Derp....iOS 7 is available to iPhone 4 as well, which is as dead in the water as the 4S and 5 come September 10th.
Its that whole "hundreds-of-millions-of-already-sold-devices" thing. Has nothing to do with what is being sold going forward. Nothing.
