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iPhone Ownership Reaches All-Time High in United States
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The thing that caught my eye was that 85% of the iPhone population is earlier than the current model.
Several ways to look at that: 1) iPhones are a durable long lasting product that people are pretty satisfied with 2) the iPhone 7 was not enough of an upgrade for people to spend their money on it, 3) new iPhones are now so expensive that people are really stretching out their upgrade cycles, or 3)all of the above.
In any case, it could mean a pent up demand for new phones. If Apple comes up with something customers consider "upgrade worthy" this fall, there could be a tsunami of sales. Otherwise, if we are presented with only an "S" upgrade, sales, while still good, could be sort of lukewarm.
Several ways to look at that: 1) iPhones are a durable long lasting product that people are pretty satisfied with 2) the iPhone 7 was not enough of an upgrade for people to spend their money on it, 3) new iPhones are now so expensive that people are really stretching out their upgrade cycles, or 3)all of the above.
In any case, it could mean a pent up demand for new phones. If Apple comes up with something customers consider "upgrade worthy" this fall, there could be a tsunami of sales. Otherwise, if we are presented with only an "S" upgrade, sales, while still good, could be sort of lukewarm.
continue reading. I'm not as ignorant as you think I am.
i have already addressed why the number decreasing now makes no sense from a business/economics standpoint
i'm notsying it can't decrease. just given the known factors of population growth, maturing markets, and Apple's financial filings, Expecting shrinkage right now is unreasonable.
I am thinking most of those replying to the thread didn't really read the article or look at the charts. What I see is that the market has become saturated and innovation slowed to the point that a greater and greater share of users are just hanging onto their old phones because there isn't enough innovation to upgrade. Also, we have digressed from a competitive market with four choices that had real differentiation to a bi-opoly where two platforms are just copying each other. I think the heyday of smartphone growth is kind of over. At this point people are buying because their old one got broken more than because they want to take advantage of some new innovative features.
Holistic health is more important than focusing on one subset while ignoring the rest. Looking at it as a whole it's critically close to crossing into single digit territory where developers start abandoning the platform since it's no longer financially sustainable.
Steve Jobs
http://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os
Steve Jobs
http://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os
I have a twelve year old iPod (3rd generation) and it still holds a charge. I have an iPhone 6 that is over three years old and holds a good charge for the entire day. Your assertion is BS nonsense.
My wife's iPhone 6 has been in constant use since Sept. 2014, and still going strong. She uses it all the time. I asked her yesterday about how the battery is holding up. She had no complaints!
That's not what I was going for. The SE is 20% of the iPhone 7/Plus installed base when incorporated as a whole. That's the important number. 15.6% of the overall iPhone installed user base are comprised of SEs, and 7s, of which the SE represents 20% of that figure. That's significant. Of the flagships and new phones being bought, 20% are opting for the SE when taking into account that the SE just got a refresh, and is a current phone, whereas the 6s is last year's unchanged model, so I'm not including that in the calculation -- especially since I don't know how many of those 6s/Plus are purchases since the iPhone 7 came out. I'm sure that's a significant number and would offer a better perspective, but the SE representing 20% of a pool representing only 7s and SEs, that's a pretty significant number.
Reminds me of BMW's. Everyone seems to have one now.
Not sure which Android phones you have been trying. Have you tried a Nexus or Pixel device? As a I recently Nexus 6P buyer (year old phone) I couldn't disagree more. As an ex iPhone user I'm remarkably impressed with the performance of this phone.
The iPhone 6/6S are 2.5-3.5 years old, don't exaggerate. Now that carriers are no longer offering subsidies, and phones are only getting incrementally better every year, 3-4 years (or until the phone dies) is becoming standard for a lot of people. And a lot of people opted for a cheaper 6s (or keep their 6/6s) over a 7 to keep the headphone jack. So it's not surprising they're still the most popular even though they're old models now.
Understand completely your take, Mac 128 (LOL!)
But you forget the time of release:
1. SE, March 2016
2. 7s and 7s+, September 2016
3. Survey, December 2016
The only stat that matters to the "bean-counter" is 2.5M SEs among US users. 1:30 approximately (if believed).
I would love to see a SE refreshed because it is perfect for both, my wife and me: I have no stomach for either $1,000+ phones or phones that cannot be used with a single hand. And I pay for my phones cash-and-carry. Not prone to any of the pay-as-you-go mumbo-jumbo.
iOS 11 will drop 32 bit support, so the iPhone 5 will not get the update.
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The market % of iPhones in Japan and Australia may be even higher than the US. I think that Australia is also #1 in the world in terms of Apple products per capita.
Yes, and Apple was ahead of Microsoft in the eighties too, but then Scully became greedy and Apple lost market share and MS passed Apple in profits. It took Jobs over ten years to become more profitable than Microsoft.
Apple would be in a better position if they were the dominant OS on smart phones, just like Microsoft is on the desktop. A position they have held for 25 years while making money on Office, cloud service, Xbox etc. 2016 was the first year Apple saw a decline in profits for 15 years. In the long run their strategy is hurting them, Android now has a 90% market share world wide and the problem is not Apple's products. People just can't afford them.
Why does it matter? I went from a blue bubble to green bubble and nobody noticed. And I have a better phone.
Bizarre headline to data that suggests new iPhone models are slow to be adopted. By the graph, it appears it takes nearly 2 years for a particular model's sales to reach their maximum, at which point the phone is well outdated.
I guess maybe from a profit perspective this could be good? But for getting your technology into the wild, it's a setback.
I guess maybe from a profit perspective this could be good? But for getting your technology into the wild, it's a setback.
iOS services is their fastest growing profit center so if those older phones still work with Apple Music, iCloud, iTunes Store, etc. I think they might be ok with it too ;-)