That’s obviously because Apple discontinued the iPhone mini. 😁
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iPhone Sales Stall Despite Global Smartphone Market Recovery
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They've been selling the same phone for 5 years, it's no wonder people have stopped upgrading.
Apple is targeting profit over market share.
My opinion only but I doubt that Apple will be lowering prices soon
.3? I used to be a 1 year, then 2, then 3. Now I seriously think I’m a 4 year man.
With no new compelling features why upgrade and pay the Apple tax?
Before the announcement I was sure to do the same thing. Exact same upgrade. But I just couldn't find a reason to, there wasn't really a single thing about it that would've been really exciting to get.
Wholeheartedly disagree there. On the Android side they are constantly trying new things like phones with multiple displays that fold into tablets and whatnot. Apple has been fixated on the same form factor (more or less) for 15 years.
It would be fun to see Apple cannibilize their iPhone sales with the next big thing.
A lot can be done in smartphones to begin with almost everyphone in the android has been trying to create a desktop phone, remember samsung DEX. Well if anyone who can do it is Apple, they have the software and hardware both to execute it. Yet for 5 yrs now Apple has been dragging its feet so that it doesnt cannibalise its other hardware sales. If they wanted they could do it 5 yrs ago even before M1 was released. Infact the ARM based Developer Mac minis used during Transition has A series chips from iPads.
I have an iPhone 13 Pro and it's still going strong. If they want more sales they need to make the products more fragile (which they are rumoured to be doing for the 17 Pro).
This article makes it sound like Apple is selling fewer iPhones. They’re not, the number just isn’t growing as fast as others.
That’s not a catastrophe. Far from it. That’s expected, given Apple has been making these to last MUCH longer and still be useful compared to most of the comparable Android phones out there.
If I didn’t have a 15PM right now, I’d have leapt on a 16 Plus as an upgrade from my 13. But I DO have it, and I feel no driving need to upgrade till maybe the 17 or 18 series. It’s just that good.
If I had an android? Sure, I’d be looking to upgrade sooner because it would already be showing its age.
That’s not a catastrophe. Far from it. That’s expected, given Apple has been making these to last MUCH longer and still be useful compared to most of the comparable Android phones out there.
If I didn’t have a 15PM right now, I’d have leapt on a 16 Plus as an upgrade from my 13. But I DO have it, and I feel no driving need to upgrade till maybe the 17 or 18 series. It’s just that good.
If I had an android? Sure, I’d be looking to upgrade sooner because it would already be showing its age.
Smaller sample size of course, but I've never seen more people either switching to Android outright, or talking about switching more seriously than ever before (both in person and on forums), than I have over the past couple of years.
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Apple supports their products for a long time almost 7-8 yrs. which is great value, what they need is more innovation.
Really sad how the biggest innovation of the iPhone 16 is an additional bitten when the key selling point of the first iPhone was the fact that I’d had a touch screen and no physical buttons.
I really dislike the new camera button. It seems so lost.
I really dislike the new camera button. It seems so lost.
by now the 13 should have been losing battery capacity and the XS (!!!) should be long past its Use By date...
lots of people now upgrade every three years. you notice a significant change in that timeframe.
the loudest whingers about the 16 are from 15 users who like their yearly refresh but cant justify it this time around.
the "useless" camera button isnt at all.
i used to use the on screen camera button but now prefer and use the dedicated button.
not tinkered much with manual settings using the touch slider feature but I know it's there if I want to muscle memory it some time...
the touch screen is a bit more dicky in the 16. fails to register some areas every time. hopefully a software fix sometime.
you rarely, if ever, see an Android foldable screen in use in public here.
the price premium probably or the horrible fold line put people off.
the sales data doesnt show that.
more Android users are switching. it's usually 10-13% each year . Apple users tend to stay loyal far more...
I'll always enter these discussions to say this: The fact that you don't feel a need to upgrade your phone most likely has more to do with how good phones are now, such that you'll use them for the 2-3-4 years you mention. That's a testament to the greatness of Apple phones.
You all confuse this. And those of you complaining that you don't have a reason to upgrade your 15 Pro Max? First world problems.
...and if some of you had actually read the article rather than commenting on the headline, you'd have understood that the "innovation" that is driving sales of Android devices is...wait for it...PRICE.
Apple has no interest in competing in the $295 phone market. And, if you prefer to buy that $295 (more innovative!) phone, let's see if you're still using it in 3-4-5 years like your iPhone xs or 11 or 12.
Apple has no interest in competing in the $295 phone market. And, if you prefer to buy that $295 (more innovative!) phone, let's see if you're still using it in 3-4-5 years like your iPhone xs or 11 or 12.
I love my 13 Pro! It’s gonna take something big to pry it outta my hands!
Not increasing prices is reducing them in real terms, since inflation has been so high and biting into the value of money. Samsung and Google have been increasing prices by hundreds of dollars.
Yes, but you can routinely find deals on Samsung and Google phones for several hundred dollars off, unlike current iPhones. My wife bought a Pixel 8 about a month after it was released, for half off, without a contract. Paid cash and out the door, and it was unlocked in 60 days.
As for iPhone prices, I expect them to go up in parallel with tariffs, if they are implemented.
This. The problem is this goes counter to stockholders that demand infinite growth. My biggest hope as a consumer is that Apple crumbles under it's own weight and ends up taking itself private. Investors are nothing but locusts.
Plus, Apple makes a metric ton of cash off of their services these days. They can afford to sell more-but-slightly-less-more-than-desired bits of hardware due to that.
Apple is in no danger of falling behind in general revenues, and folks need to remember that Apple is also a software/services company, not just a phone-selling company!
Samsung makes phones that fold whichever way you want them to fold.
Apple makes an iPhone in a "ALL NEW" (but not really) shade of silver.
Apple makes an iPhone in a "ALL NEW" (but not really) shade of silver.