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iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Sales Top Thirteen Million in Launch Weekend
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Why is it these forums are always full of sarcastic people whose responses are basically a form of "Love it or leave it." Guess it's why i try to avoid the forums nowadays
So Tim, since you're in a mood to share Apple sales details, how many Apple Watches have been sold?
I don't think that is a fair comparison. The new iPhones have way better innards at the same price as last year's.
From an end user's perspective, none of that stuff even matters, because the iPhone 6 and 6 plus were plenty fast for most people. You basically get force touch and a faster phone (not that the last generation was slow), and that's not worth $100 more.
Agreed. In combination with the longer preorder period, we also know that the redesign model years create a higher demand simply because of their redesign in addition to some new features. China was included in the last two S-model years at launch (5s, 6s), but left out of the most recent redesign (6 and 6 plus).
Apple obviously knows how many phones they sell in every country, and can add (or subtract) countries as necessary to hit a certain target number. Furthermore, they probably have a pretty good idea of how many phones they could sell if manufacturing, inventory, and distribution would allow it...they know where the ceiling is. And naturally, they want to be able to announce every year that they broke the record. So all their knowledge allows them to pick a new higher target number, add as many countries as necessary, and build launch stock accordingly. I suppose it could be even possible that they sold 14 or 15 or more million, but choose to only announce launch sales of "more than 13 million", which was possibly the target number. Rather than attempt to jump straight to some maximum sales number, they choose to shoot for a 2-3 million launch increase YoY, which will make them look good, and is attainable and fiscally-responsible in both manufacturing and distribution.
Wait. What? You think that many people were waiting for 2GB of RAM. Don't get me wrong, it is better; but your understanding of demographics is concerning.
Apple and carriers are part of this high expectation. They give people zero-interest loan to buy phone. technically, they throw money out the street for people to borrow.
so yeah, This record is driven by Apple, at least partially.
This high demand is artificially inflated with zero-interest loan offered by Apple and carriers. This is a new uncharted territory that we've never seen before.
We have car loan, home loan, now phone loan. Hence we have a new thread topic "apple loan caused headache for some"
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Even that wouldn't entirely work because sales in those countries were probably constrained due to millions of units that were sent to China and other launch places. The estimated 2 to 3 million sold in China would no doubt have sold in the U.S. if available here during the weekend.
Really first weekend sales numbers is a production and logistics achievement and not very telling in terms of demand. We know Apple basically sells every phone it has available through the first weekend. And pre-orders are backed up all over the world. Scalpers are lining up at stores in the U.S. to buy and ship. Sales would have been 20 million on launch weekend if the phones had been available to sell.
As Apple has said in the past, they don't know what demand is until they reach supply/demand balance. That might not happen until next year on a global basis.
Based on the ifixit they could not - you might be thinking of PC sticks of RAM you can easily add. Looks like A9 is build on a new architecture as that's why they were able to pack more RAM onto the chip.
Given the lead times for this and what Ive said on the Wired interview - they are on a 18-24 month cycles on these phones.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+6s+Teardown/48170
All that superior hardware, and they cannot even come close to the numbers Apple puts up in the sales column.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that Apple knows what they are doing, whether you like it or not.
Yes, but that production capacity is set for the estimated year's worth of production. They don't ramp up manufacturing plants during launch month and then mothball them for the next 11 months out of the year.
I should have put "sarcasm" in my post.... I can see its creating confusion for some....
Pardon my mistake, my good sir....
I don't think Apple runs its company that way. They shouldn't care about the daily/weekly stock price. It is nice that it works out this way, since it smooths Apple's financial results. But I do not believe they are holding back phones or shipping them early just to achieve some financial statement manipulation.
We won't really know the demand for this phone until next year. I think demand is going to be really strong though. But mainly because of the Apps that will come and take advantage of the powerful processor. And with the build quality seemingly so good, these phones will probably be floating around in the used market for over five years.
What does that mean? How does supply influence demand? What do you mean by saying that "it's probably more a function of supply than demand?"
He said it saved time. Why don't you drop your 'mental challenge' straw man and discuss the feature based on its actual purpose of saving time?
I wasn't aware that new Watches launched this weekend. Apple didn't tell us how many iPad mini 4s were sold either. Who cares.
Oh, I thought it only works when plugged in on the iPhone 6.
EDIT: Just looked into it, from what I see it requires the M9 co-processor for the always on functionality as I expected
I mean Apple is selling them as fast as they can make them. That's why when you go on Apple's website the earliest shipping date is 10/5.
Yes, and the ones before that had...what? So incremental spec updates are more exciting than actual functionality? It's funny how mixed up the messages are - either the S updates suck because they are just speed updates or they suck because they aren't. Which is it?!
A curved screen is not useful in a world where smart watches exist and concreted cracks the glass. The new iPhone would win the drop test vs. all of those phones...and wtf are you doing with a 4K screen anyway?
Regardless, go take a look at performance and battery life. The 15 nm chips and fast/wireless (oxymoron) charging aren't helping Samsung even catch up to the iPhone 6 and in many cases they're still losing to the 5S in benchmarks. But hey, 4K right?
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2% i'm not sure about that mate, me and many of my friends have upgraded every year since the first iPhone, it's definitely a hell of a lot higher than 2%, especially for us that don't bothered to be tied in with data plans in the UK and buy the phones sim free.
Really? Apple has been selling more phones every single year. These installment plans haven't been around that long.
Which should be expected...however, the 4S was not the first to "fix" the antenna issue, it was the CDMA iPhone 4 in February 2011.
Well respected TV website reviewers are still debating if 4k is even noticeable on a 70" TV never-mind a 5" smartphone. No one on the face of this earth can benefit from a 4k screen on a mobile devices, it's nothing more than marketing and specs sales.
And there's a post drawing on various sources on Cult of Mac showing how the 6s is twice as powerful as every other smartphone on the market at the minute - best to save the gimmicks users genuine don't benefit front. 3D Touch is fantastic to use, 4k in a phone will never ever be useful and I very much doubt Apple will go past their retina specification as it quite rightly serves no purpose or benefit.