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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Sales Top Ten Million in Launch Weekend

MellowFuzz said:
iPhone6 :

- Bad screen aspect ratio - should be paper A6
- Too thin → Protruding camera, rather than longer battery life and flush lens
- Ugly antenna bands
- No OIS on basic model
- Base storage should be 32GB
- No wireless charging
- No iPhone 6C with all-plastic back
- No sapphire screen
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Who let the Fandroid in?
 
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Sales Top Ten Million in Launch Weekend

Zwopple said:
Does anyone know if Apple's sales numbers include backordered units?



I wonder if this 10 million includes preorders that are yet to ship and if not how many devices it would be?
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I believe a sale is booked only when Apple actually sells the phone. So when they sell it to a carrier or when they actually charge your card at shipment or in the Apple Store. Inventory in Apple's control does not count as sales, but carrier store inventory does (since the phones were sold to the carrier). But since most carriers are waiting for more stock, the sales numbers are basically all real sales.
 
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euphemus said:
So, I drove away having been willingly wallet-raped, with a phone with a buggy OS and a sticky-out camera, that does precisely nothing that my previous 5s couldn't do - and I was one of the lucky ones.
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The 5S's camera does not have 240 FPS slo-mo or "focus pixels" for Continuous autofocus video
The screen is larger (of course) but the 6 also has "Dual-domain pixels for wider viewing angles" which the 5S does not
The 5S has a slower chip than the new A8 chip
The 5S (and smaller iPhone 6) does not have Optical image stabilization like the 6 Plus
Panorama now goes up to 43 megapixels (5S cannot do this)
5S does not do 60 fps video (1080p is 30 fps)
Front camera is now ƒ/2.2 and has Burst mode
 
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euphemus said:
Also, the service from the frazzled associates was close to appalling from what I witnessed personally, and observed by others close by. Angela Ahrendts really needs to improve things IMHO, because Apple store service has become only marginally better than Best Buy service in the last 2-3 years
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This is just ridiculous. The service at every Apple store I have ever been to (all across the country, not just my local area) has been so much better than just about every chain store of any type (not just electronics)

They are a bit too "hipster" for my taste, but the service is excellent. There is always room for improvement and I cannot hold it against them when things get busier then usual ("frazzled associates"? No kidding: you said you were the last reservation pickup for the day on Sunday, so they have had a long weekend of a much busier than usual madhouse. Apple stores are always busy but when their flagship product is refreshed it becomes crazy!)
 
MellowFuzz said:
iPhone6 :

- Bad screen aspect ratio - should be paper A6
- Too thin → Protruding camera, rather than longer battery life and flush lens
- Ugly antenna bands
- No OIS on basic model
- Base storage should be 32GB
- No wireless charging
- No iPhone 6C with all-plastic back
- No sapphire screen
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Screen is fine
a bigger battery? sure they could of made it thicker to get a bigger battery but what do you really think you get from a bigger battery? maybe an hour or two of use, big whoop

ugly antenna bang - I agree but a case fixes this, also I look at the screen more than the back

base storage could of been 32GB but apple knows that would kill sales of the mid range capacity, most that buy 64GB dont really need 64GB but they want more than 16GB(if base was 32GB, less would go for the mid range 64, becasue 32 would be a comfortable number)

no wireless charging - I have heard of it but do not understand the love for it, there are AC outlets everywhere

no plastic version - maybe next year apple usually does a new phone than does the S or C version the next year

Sapphire Glass only helps for scratches, not drops so its sort of nice but not as important as glass that is drop proof
 
MacDarcy said:
Half the people I saw waiting on line for the iphone 6 outside the apple store here in NYC were Chinese. Just saying. I think you're right.
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I just saw a Youtube video that showed all of this in New York. Many were old ladies and not the typical crowd you see in the front of cell phone line for 2 days. All paid in cash. The people who filmed the video followed the buyers outside of the store and they all met up with people to hand off the phones.
 
Kendo said:
Wasn't Steve's goal of selling the original iPhone 10 million units in an entire year? I still remember his 2007 keynote where he wanted to capture "just 1 percent of the market."
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Steve said nothing about 10 million units. He only said (as you pointed out) 1% of the market he wanted. Steve didn't say if he meant profitshare or marketshare.
 
rei101 said:
On Saturday night I was walking here in Miami and saw people making a huge line.

I called my best friend in Venezuela, I am Venezuelan and I told him: look... this people making lines for hours to get a cellphone... they do not have nothing better to do?

In Venezuela people are making lines to buy milk and toilet paper, I understand that but I would never wait more than 15 minutes in my life to buy something, probably a movie ticket and if you go to Disney or a waterpark there is no option.

My friend told me: that is why I left the USA, even I am a citizen I came back to Venezuela where there is a sense of community and not filling up your inner void with material things.

Wow...

Still, today is Monday and people making lines for something they do not need for me is a mental problem.

I got my iPhone 5 like 6 month after, still in perfect shape. I saw the 6 and the screen is bigger and it helps a lot, but my life does not depends of it and no ones life does. Again.. pretty empty life's to make aline for a phone.
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Thank for sharing? Most communist countries ruled by evil dictators have to worry about food and basics. However, the real pity here is trying to justify your place in the world by putting others down. Is that the sense of community you were referring to?
 
Keep in mind, there are probably millions like me who are willing to wait a month or two when the pandemonium dies down.

Some of us would rather just walk in and pick up an iphone 6 and not have to wait in line.

That said, I'm not certain about the Apple watch being a homerun just yet.
 
XboxMySocks said:
Wait, the 4 million preorders weren't included? Source?
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There is no source for this one way or the other that I have seen. My best guess is that they include preorders that have actually been delivered into customer hands, but not those that are still in the fulfillment queue.
 
satchmo said:
Keep in mind, there are probably millions like me who are willing to wait a month or two when the pandemonium dies down.

Some of us would rather just walk in and pick up an iphone 6 and not have to wait in line.

That said, I'm not certain about the Apple watch being a homerun just yet.
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me too
 
euphemus said:
Went into my local Apple store to pick up an iPhone 6 yesterday. The way it worked out, I was the last reservation pickup for the day. I was in the store for 15 minutes while I was processed. In that time, store associates told ~30 people that the iPhone 6 was "sold out" and they should "try again tomorrow".

Last night – at 12 midnight when the online reservations open again – I checked that store, and a bunch of others, and they mostly showed close to full availability of devices, apart from the Plus obviously.

This particular store closes at 7PM Sunday and reopens at 9AM Monday. There are no couriers that provide deliveries in our region (or any other?) after 7PM on a Sunday. The first appointments for reservation pickups are 9AM this morning.

So...it looks like Apple turns away willing customers, standing in their stores, when they have devices stacked up and ready to sell in their stockrooms. There is no capacity management/crowd control defence because this particular store was busy, but with no lines all day Sunday. We were in the store earlier to pick up a case and there were maybe 5-6 people waiting for reservations, not unlike most days when there are people waiting for out-of-warranty repairs or Genius appointments.

Love the phone, love the ecosystem but, unless I'm missing something here, Apple constrains supply to create media buzz, in the process providing a pretty dismal customer experience, and creating potentially thousands of unnecessary vehicle journeys.

Also, the service from the frazzled associates was close to appalling from what I witnessed personally, and observed by others close by. Angela Ahrendts really needs to improve things IMHO, because Apple store service has become only marginally better than Best Buy service in the last 2-3 years.

So, I drove away having been willingly wallet-raped, with a phone with a buggy OS and a sticky-out camera, that does precisely nothing that my previous 5s couldn't do - and I was one of the lucky ones.
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How's the view from under that bridge?

You just posted this long diatribe about how horrible the experience was at the Apple Store, and how you know in your heart of hearts that Apple is gaming the system to conspire against their customers. Then you go on about the ugly, buggy phone that you just bought, and how your new phone is no better (in fact, in your opinion maybe worse) than your 5S. I suppose my question to that is why on earth did you buy the new phone?!!?

As far as courier deliveries are concerned, perhaps you have no insight into how Apple is managing their online inventory. Perhaps they have devices in the pipeline that their inventory system knows will be delivered first thing on Monday morning, and the employees are not aware of the pallets the day before.
 
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