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iPhone 5s Inventory Said to Be 'Severely Constrained' at Launch
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Uhh because the 5c is mostly a re-badged iPhone 5, so 99% of the components are readily available and have been churning out for a year? There is most likely more profit margin on the 5s, especially the higher storage models, but you get 0% profit margin if someone wants a phone now and you can't sell them one.
iphone online pickup
Has anyone ordered online and then picked up at their local store later that day (on launch day)?
And if same-day pickup is not available, what site do you think would give better results... the apple site or the carrier site (looking at you, 32GB gold phone on AT&T). I'm prepared to be up at 3am EST for an online order, but am not sure which would have a better chance of having stock available...
Has anyone ordered online and then picked up at their local store later that day (on launch day)?
And if same-day pickup is not available, what site do you think would give better results... the apple site or the carrier site (looking at you, 32GB gold phone on AT&T). I'm prepared to be up at 3am EST for an online order, but am not sure which would have a better chance of having stock available...
Well, in Apple's defense, a $21 difference in material costs would not under any circumstance translate into a $21 difference in sales price no matter what.
**Next Apple Event
"We are so happy and have some exciting news. The 5C has been a HUGE success, and together we have sold more iPhones than all other Androids combined.."
**Claps from the crowd as if they're getting a cut of the profits
Thank you, thank you very much lol
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Seriously..i guess everyone else loses and we win
i will be floating w my phone on Friday going super fast- im buying one of each wooo hooo
Of course, that is what I meant. Any increase in BOM cost will be multiplied by a factor of "X" in the actual price of the product.
Blissful ignorance.
You can read the specs; well done. Now try & materialise that technology & understand it before spouting off.
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You upgraded to a 5, yet the 5S is the disappointment?
This thread is full of lol.
Who said that he upgraded to a 5? I sure didn't, the 5 was my first iphone. It will also be my last, unless the iphone 6 comes with a decent sized screen.
It is bad business strategy. A company only exists to sell products to customers. If it can't do that, it's not in business at all. The two worst things a company can do is make too much of something and be unable to move it, or to make too few of something and be unable to meet demand. The best thing a company can do is meet demand perfectly with just the right supply just in time.
Wall Street is not going to look at the lines at Apple Stores, or count the numbers of lost sales as a good thing. Wall Street will see Apple committing a cardinal sin of business. Most customers are not fanatical Apple users who will not use any other company's phone if Apple isn't able to sell a phone to them. Apple will have effectively exited the phone market for those customers, and they will go elsewhere in the market. Some will wait weeks or months, sure, others will wait a year and get the next one. Some will go buy an Android or Windows phone.
Speaking as a shareholder myself, I'm rather concerned that Apple is designing products with parts that they can't adequately source in the numbers they need. That's a management failure. They should have skipped the fingerprint scanner if that's the bottleneck, or designed a less complicated A7/M7 if that's the problem. The engineers will always be pie-in-the-sky, but if something's not doable yet for a production device (too costly per unit, or too costly to produce the needed volume), management needs to step in and reign them in. As a consumer that sucks, and I'd rather see the engineers push the limits, but then as a consumer if I can't get one because there's no supply, I'm not a consumer at all, am I?
There's a difference between critique and calling something crap. The 5C is more than enough phone for over half the iOS user base. Casual users would have little differentiation between the two.
Additionally, nothing wrong with padding margins while providing a product at a lower price point that was previously not there (technically it was, but in the eye of a consumer it wasn't a "ne"w $99 phone).
Point being: if you call the 5C crap because its no good, you're missing the point. The 5C is not the flagship iPhone. And head to head it's still more powerful than the majority of other $99 options out there.
I would bet that the 10% of people who want the 64GB model would become the new 10% who want the 128GB model, if Apple made a 128GB model.
But if you have a 5, the 5S isn't really targeted at you then, is it? Only the true die-hards will be upgrading from a 5 to a 5S. If you drive a 2012 Civic you don't get all disappointed that the 2013 Civic doesn't really offer anything new.
I, on the other hand, have been using an iPhone 4 for three years, and it is definitely feeling old and slow. I don't know if I will end with an iPhone 5S or an Android phone of some variant, but it's definitely time for something new.
Listening to music in the shower. Photography at the pool. Videography snorkeling in the ocean. Accidental drops.
Considering how many iPhones come into Apple Stores with water damage, it would probably save Apple some money to just waterproof the things. But the iPhone is the most popular camera on the planet. Who doesn't want to bring a waterproof camera on those family vacations to the beach?
Guess that is another Silicon Valley advantage. Hear stories of people flying out here to get some of them before their local stores showed up with them.
Can't go back to something I never used to begin with.
Could you also provide me a list of acceptable opinions to post on this forum so that I can avoid hurting your overly sensitive feelings any further, please?
Thank you, thank you very much lol
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Seriously..i guess everyone else loses and we win
Float on my friend!!
Right now I'm worried Apple has already done so, with the fingerprint sensor on the home button.