iPhone 5s Demand Wanes in China, While Interest in iPhone 6 Accelerates

[gnasher729]

Last quarter Apple sold 51 million iPhones which happened to be 18% of the smartphone market.

The cheapest phone I can buy is about £10. That's for owning the phone, no subsidies, no contract, nothing. A company selling 52 million of these phones in a quarter would sell more phones than Apple, while making a whopping £520 million revenue. I think Apple wouldn't care.

 

[thekev]

Remember the 90s ? Everyone was latching on to the next smaller cell phone.

When you're walking down the street with your Galaxy Mega or Note 3, this is what I see:

Isn't that close to late 80s than 90s?

 

[jonnysods]

That's happening only in China?

 

[PracticalMac]

I hope the rumors of a larger iPhone are incorrect (but sadly I think are accurate).
http://gizmodo.com/5847981/this-is-why-the-iphones-screen-will-always-be-35-inches/all

Apple used to know what people wanted more then the people themselves... more evidence that Apple is fading.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
- Henry Ford

What's to stop Apple from making 4" iPhone's?

Be a good way to offer lower cost iPhone, while those that want a big one pay $100 more.

 

[bzero]

Market share is a percentage of the total market. It's not an absolute number.

Last quarter Apple sold 51 million iPhones which happened to be 18% of the smartphone market.

But it's possible for Apple to sell 60 million iPhones in the future... while only being 12% of the market.

Alright, if you want to assume that the total number is going to change rapidly, it STILL matters to Apple because of the "halo effect". If iPhones are more popular, new buyers are more likely to buy them for the extra compatibility with friends and the extra apps on the store. Also just to fit in. The Microsoft example is to show how much pressure was on every buyer of a PC to use Windows just because it was so massively popular. I remember 2001… almost nothing was made for Mac.

 

[Kaspersky]

Apple can only sell in the U.S. and Germany

And in Japan, but of course does not count because Japanese buy anything to look American...

 

[Michael Scrip]

Alright, if you want to assume that the total number is going to change rapidly, it STILL matters to Apple because of the "halo effect". If iPhones are more popular, new buyers are more likely to buy them for the extra compatibility with friends and the extra apps on the store. Also just to fit in.

Look... I know you're trying to say that Apple doesn't sell enough phones and thus doesn't have enough market share.

But Apple is actually the #2 smartphone manufacturer by volume. Like I said earlier... 51 million iPhones last quarter. That's an incredible amount of products for anybody.

If Apple is doing it wrong... what about everyone else who sells fewer than that? Shouldn't you be more worried about them?

You realize that Apple sells 3 times the amount of smartphones as the #3 company... right?

The Microsoft example is to show how much pressure was on every buyer of a PC to use Windows just because it was so massively popular.

And my example was to show that low market share isn't the death sentence you think it is. The Mac has been around for 30 years... survived some hard times internally... AND weathered the near-monopoly from Microsoft.

And you can still buy a Mac today.

The Mac is one of the greatest underdog stories in tech history.

Sure... the Mac still has under 10% market share.

And so does Honda.

I remember 2001… almost nothing was made for Mac.

And in a strange twist of fate... iOS with only 18% market share is the platform that has the most software written for it.

Once again... the market share number doesn't have much to do with what is actually going on in the world.

 

[tentales]

Isn't that close to late 80s than 90s?

Guess you didn't get the joke ?

Yes, brick phones belong in the 80s, but it was the 90s that saw sizes drop year after year driven by demand for smaller phones.

I was juxtaposing this with the current demand for larger phones, eventually supercomputers held up to your ear.