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iPhone X Outpaces iPhone 8 Series in First Weekend Adoption
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The iPhone 5c was very popular and sold very well.
I know I'd grown quite bored with the 6/7/8 design and was very much looking forward to the X. I think a lot of other people were too.
My wife and I were watching hockey and an iPhone X commercial came on. It was 95% just pictures of the iPhone X screen with some fluid colors swirling around to some music. That's it. I turned to her and said, "What a waste of commerical time. I wouldn't buy a phone based on that commercial.". More money than sense, Apple has, I suppose.
I do, I think the 8 with the glass back is a much better design.
Also notchless too.
This article is Double Dutch, iPhone 7 garnered 1% and 6 and 6S, with less iPhones in existence then.
It's also important to consider that there are significantly more smart phone users in the market today than in previous years, so each new iPhone has an easier time gaining market share among all of the models before it.
Fixed it for you.
Actually, I do. That phone is absolutely beautiful, probably what Jobs and Ive were aiming for with the 4 but didn't have the technology to pull off at that time. It's a perfectly engineered rectangular slab of rounded glass that has no perceptible seams, as if it were extruded as one unit.
I'm not surprised that the early adopters prefer the X by a significant margin. The question is if sales of this $1000+ phone will have legs in the longer term, i.e. if they can capture the mainstream market. As much as I like Apple I almost hope not, since otherwise these prices will probably become the new normal ...
Long term, the iPhone 8 will sell stronger than iPhone X because of the more affordable price point. And then you have those who are not entirely sure if they want to migrate away from touch ID to Face ID, which still many prefer touch ID as well.
Wow, apparently critical reading skills are no longer taught, or have been completely forgotten, or are simply inconvenient when trolling.
For all of those doom and gloom trolls please be aware that when Apple makes a prediction for the next fiscal quarter they cannot afford to be inaccurate and (almost?) always come out conservative. So when Apple shows "the company's revenue guidance of between $84 billion and $87 billion in the current quarter does imply significant iPhone X sales" it's not hype, it's what they expect to see. Now, ask yourself, given Apple's record, how likely is it that the FUD trolls are right and the iPhone X is not selling or being returned at unprecedented rates? The correct answer is as close to zero as matters.
Additionally there is a common theme that iPhone 8/8 Plus sales are terrible however Tim Cook "did reveal the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus were its best-selling models between their September release and iPhone X launch day." Now given the implications of a CEO lying I think it is safe to say the statement is based on some facts. Perhaps it is a positive spin (iPhone 8 outsells other iPhone models currently available) but it is clear that the sales are not terrible, nor bad, abysmal or non-existent. Again, look at Apple's prediction for the next quarter.
Seriously, hey haters, turns out you were wrong. Suck it up and move on. There are plenty of things to criticize that don't have reality against you.
For all of those doom and gloom trolls please be aware that when Apple makes a prediction for the next fiscal quarter they cannot afford to be inaccurate and (almost?) always come out conservative. So when Apple shows "the company's revenue guidance of between $84 billion and $87 billion in the current quarter does imply significant iPhone X sales" it's not hype, it's what they expect to see. Now, ask yourself, given Apple's record, how likely is it that the FUD trolls are right and the iPhone X is not selling or being returned at unprecedented rates? The correct answer is as close to zero as matters.
Additionally there is a common theme that iPhone 8/8 Plus sales are terrible however Tim Cook "did reveal the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus were its best-selling models between their September release and iPhone X launch day." Now given the implications of a CEO lying I think it is safe to say the statement is based on some facts. Perhaps it is a positive spin (iPhone 8 outsells other iPhone models currently available) but it is clear that the sales are not terrible, nor bad, abysmal or non-existent. Again, look at Apple's prediction for the next quarter.
Seriously, hey haters, turns out you were wrong. Suck it up and move on. There are plenty of things to criticize that don't have reality against you.
I’ve used both. I’d prefer the X. I prefer the aspect ratio on the plus models, but the bottom and top bezels make the phone too large for me.
Indeed. I was convinced that I wasn’t going to buy the thing but here comes the Hype and totally changed my mind and made me splash £999 in a matter of minutes. It’s a general practice I follow, I see products that are hyped and just go for them, regardless of price or quantity..........
Tim actually said "In the last week and a half of September, we began shipping iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus to customers in more than 50 countries. They instantly became our two most popular iPhone models, and have been every week since then."
Very carefully worded on his part. I guess it is open to interpretation, but the way I read it was for the time it was on sale it was the most popular model (ie. from September 22 - November 2, 2017 the iPhone 8 sold more than the iPhone 7, 6s, or SE).
I don't read that to mean that the iPhone 8 sold more phones during its first week or month than the iPhone 6 or 6s did.
I also don't read that to mean that the iPhone 8 outsold the combined units of the 7, 6s and SE for that same period.
You've got to parse what Tim Cook says very, very carefully to get to the underlying truth.
I think the sales of the iPhone 8 and 8 plus were crippled by the announcement that something better was coming. After the keynote I planned to get the iPhone X, but somewhere along the line decided the iphone 8 was really the better choice for me. Reading MacRumors it seems a lot more of the iPhone X's are being returned than the usual returns of phones at launch. Sales figures may change somewhat over time as people realize that the 8 or 8 plus meets their needs better than the latest and greatest and more expensive iPhone X. Not knocking the X - I've looked at it in the Apple store and it's a great phone.