The Canadian economy is on a roll. Vancouver and Toronto homeowners have experienced a huge windfall in the past few years with knock on effects in the construction, service, and retail industries. Huge amounts of overseas cash being spent into Canada. I would surprised if customers weren't hyped and ready to buy.
Super easy is not having a defective phone, and I recall many times, people had to wait several weeks to get their defective phone replaced by apple, so its not always the case of apple having stock on hand.Blah, at least it's super easy to replace an iPhone that has issues, and they always have a bunch of new replacement iPhones only stocked for that purpose.
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Doing some basic speculation based of existing product pricing. Note 8 for example is $940 USD, and being sold by Canadian retails for $1,350. So a $999 USD iPhone 8 would likely come with what I am guessing to be a $1,450 CAD price ($1638.50 w/tax).
Even with insane demand and manufacturing issues, Apple still knows what it's doing supply chain wise. Google is clueless, or doesn't care.
So despite our economy that is booming, people's incomes aren't generally booming. the question becomes is this going to be a price-point that Canadian's are OK with...
how will people afford this? that's like buying a macbook.
It's the same story in the U.S. Unfortunately consumers are very much addicted to instant gratification and like the overused frog in the pot of hot water analogy. Many don't realize they need to cut back spending until it's too late. Nothing was learned from the 2008 meltdown.
So while I'm guessing not too many will be paying full price upfront, many will rationalize "it's only $10 more than I'm already paying." Consumers have a way of justifying spending that same "extra $10" 10 ways to Sunday. So, yes, I think the new phone will be a big seller.
Apple thanks you for your patronage - only 512MB models for youPeople will be desperate and frantic to buy something they can't afford.
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Uh - wonder how are they going to do that? are they setting aside millions of units in the case people want to upgrade or they will go with a first come first serve approach - this is going to be interesting to seeHopefully there will be priority given to Apple Upgrade customers.
I JUST WISH APPLE FOCUSED ON MAKING THINGS WITH IPHONE DESIGN PERFECT.
We still have phone subsidies on some carriers and "tab billing" on some others that mask these prices. But for the rest of us who will only buy carrier free phones, it's either pay these full prices or find alternatives. So far, I've stuck with my S6 for far longer than I wished to. and it doesn't look like 2017 is going to change that trend
???????????????????????????????There is ALWAYS a shortage. Hurry, get your pre-order in so you get it before the iPhone 9 is announced.