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iPhone Sales Strong in U.S., U.K. and Australia, Weaker in Much of Europe
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Don't mention zee Euro. You can't trust those French and Germans. Good ole blighty keeping our end up again.
I'm only joking my fellow Europeans. We love you really.
I'm an American, and if the iPhone wasn't subsidized down to $200, I'm not sure I would have one. Maybe, but it would be a much harder decision.
Edit: that being said, I was just a few days ago considering buying an iPhone 4S unlocked so I could go back to T-Mobile.
Edit: that being said, I was just a few days ago considering buying an iPhone 4S unlocked so I could go back to T-Mobile.
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Or Iphone sales up in countries with high unemployment down in countries with low unemployment as for U.S vs Germanylol France and the U.K are both pretty stuffed so that doesnt really work hmmm must be something different.
Everywhere I go though I see Iphones nothing else, but I bought mine in the U.K and brought it back to Germany as it is cheaper with the exchange rate of GBP/ Euro as the pound has lost its value extremely in the last couple of years. Maybe thats what a lot o people did...just a guess.
Or Iphone sales up in countries with high unemployment down in countries with low unemployment as for U.S vs Germanylol France and the U.K are both pretty stuffed so that doesnt really work hmmm must be something different.
Everywhere I go though I see Iphones nothing else, but I bought mine in the U.K and brought it back to Germany as it is cheaper with the exchange rate of GBP/ Euro as the pound has lost its value extremely in the last couple of years. Maybe thats what a lot o people did...just a guess.
"In Great Britain, the U.S. and Australia, Apple's new iPhone continues to fly off the shelf"
Aren't these the majority of the english speaking countries? maybe its to do with siri which is the major selling point of the 4s.
How are sales in Canada, Ireland and NZ?
Aren't these the majority of the english speaking countries? maybe its to do with siri which is the major selling point of the 4s.
How are sales in Canada, Ireland and NZ?
2 reasons:
1. siri does work only very limited in non-english countries so there's very little extra value
2. nokia lumia 800 debuted in europe
Not everywhere. In Europe they apparently buy more Android phones now...
Android equals junk.
P.S. I live in Europe too.
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Europe is not a country, it's a continent.
Weak sales. My God , man, are you that clueless. Do you understand that iPhone is a premium phone? You can't sell just as many iPhones as some 3rd ratecrappy ZTe Android thingy. Do you understand that?
Apple can be selling lets say N iPhones every month (just a random number), but if there are N andoirds sold the first month and then later monts they sell N+10 then obviously looking at the numbers iPhone marketshare will go down (duh), but Apple will still be selling loads of iPhones, just as it did before.
do you understand we are talking market share?
do you understand there are reasons why it isnt selling as good as the english countries? it's not just about the economy, those are tanking accross the western world in case you didnt notice, and here in holland but also germany the situation isnt worse than england or the us that do have strong iphone sales.
and lose the attitude kid
If what I heard about European data plans is true, it's insanely expensive to have a smart phone with a plan there. I wouldn't get one if I were in Europe.
And the fact that the iPhone is selling so well in the U.S. is surprising. Everyone is complaining about the bad economy, yet most Americans have smartphones, and (I think) most of those are iPhones. Also, you'd think people worried about their economy would buy the cheapo Samsung garbage, but they go for the $200+ iPhone with very high rates. I just use the iPod Touch and use random wifi.
And the fact that the iPhone is selling so well in the U.S. is surprising. Everyone is complaining about the bad economy, yet most Americans have smartphones, and (I think) most of those are iPhones. Also, you'd think people worried about their economy would buy the cheapo Samsung garbage, but they go for the $200+ iPhone with very high rates. I just use the iPod Touch and use random wifi.
I can see #1, but for #2 - do you really think the Lumia impacted iPhone sales? I don't have any facts but I'm not sure it's doing that well.
I would say economic fears and strong offering of available Android phones would probably have a greater impact than the Lumia.
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yeah that 2nd reason is more speculative indeed. I think it debuted rather late in the last three months to have really impacted sales on 2nd thought.
4S is a some what underwhelming upgrade. If our contracts ran for 12 months between upgrades then, by all means, the 4S would be more than adequate but some don't see it as future proof, primarily due to the 3.5 screen and 512mb of ram. Personally I'm still very happy with my 12 month old iPhone 4...
Just got back from Paris and Barcelona. I can not comment on sales, but I was very surprised how many iPhone 4's (how do you pluralize without adding a confusion? ) I saw in europe. Not as big as a percentage as Los Angeles (where I think it looks like 90% - the other 10% includes my wife) but still it was at least 25-50% iPhone's I saw in cafe's.
) I saw in europe. Not as big as a percentage as Los Angeles (where I think it looks like 90% - the other 10% includes my wife) but still it was at least 25-50% iPhone's I saw in cafe's.As if US and UK were doing well economically. They are not. In fact they are doing much worse than, say, Germany. The only common thing between all these countries is the language which suggests that Apple is doing strong where its hype machine has better environment (like, people reading sites like Cult Of Mac, MacRumors etc.) In other countries, people tend to buy stuff based on technical merits.