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iPhone X Sales Were 'Stellar' in Several Countries During First Month of Availability
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Just to be clear, Steve was never focused on market share
Not with the Mac
Not with the iPhone
Quality products - YES
Profits - YES
Market Share - not so much
I'm not surprised at the growth of Android here in the UK in recent months. Samsung spent an awful lot on TV Ads. Sony was there as well. Apple? Tumbleweeds blowing in the wind.
Apple's End of Year rating? MUST do better.
Apple's End of Year rating? MUST do better.
Honestly Phil, it can't do 2% of what a $200 budget phone can do. That's a $1000 less. Basically what I'm saying is I miss CompUSA and that anecdote game needs a little work.
Everyone wait until 2/1 to see just how stellar these results are going to be. Will be close to $100B in revenue in 90 days.
The iPhone is now a full lineup, no longer a single product.
On top, there's the aspirational, "halo" product, then all the rest in a pyramid. Keep in mind that Apple could not build the X in usual volumes due to OLED screen availability, which remains low.
The aspirational product can be priced very high, because it can't be sold in higher numbers anyways.
The full iPhone lineup will break records, as guided by Apple itself. That's the nature of the widely expected supercycle, not one single model outselling all the rest by leagues iPhone-6-style.
Same here, coming from a 6+.
I make a lot of photographs on the streets of San Francisco, and usually keep my phone in a shirt pocket for easy access. But not too easy, because sadly, SF has a problem with thieves jacking phones in the downtown. Apparently there's still value for the parts.
With the 6+ and a silicon case that problem was solved making it very difficult for someone rolling by trying to snatch it out of your pocket at an angle - essentially impossible with the silicon case tenaciously gripping fabric when yanked at an angle. But it was also too difficult for me to access quickly when needed.
The iPhone X and silicon case is the right balance for that situation. Easier access for me over my 6+, but still difficult enough for anyone trying to quickly jack it out of my pocket.
Apple doesn’t want to compete on the low end market. Android has the market share but Apple makes a majority of the profit in the smartphone market
The analysis on market share is always based on small sample sizes and is frankly going to be wrong or at least very suspect. Apple themselves will never even reveal product mix, but we'll know the story on February 1.
If this article has any validity for China being this strong, the numbers are going to be staggering. The US market is always good in reality. China is what has struggled (if you can call it that) since 2014-2015.
In the mid 1990's you bought a Powerbook 150 used at CompUSA....it was $1200....and could not do 2% of what the iPhone 8 can do for $500 less.
You do realize these numbers are not "sales" right? They are sales share and are estimates at best. These numbers are not from Apple and never tie to reality.
Plus, the pie has gotten bigger so the 298 could actually be more phones than a 312 in aggregate.
Care to bet on if Apple sold more phones in Q417 than Q416? The Q416 number was 78M. We'll find out February 1. Every analyst following the company expects Apple to sell more than 80M iPhones.
Focus on the first month! Pay no attention to sales after that... Nothing to see here move along...
These are all estimates. One analyst says "doom and gloom!" another says "peaches and cream!". The reality is usually closer to optimism with Apple than "doom and gloom!" however.
I cannot fathom why people care so much other than to manipulate stock prices down or up. The rest of us will just wait to get the real numbers from the "horse's mouth" so to speak.
I cannot fathom why people care so much other than to manipulate stock prices down or up. The rest of us will just wait to get the real numbers from the "horse's mouth" so to speak.
This is wrong and revisionist. Jobs did care about market share. He cared about it as a part of an encompassing vision for success. He understood where it played a part. But don't take my word for it. Take his. Relevant portion from 38 min to 43 min. Fair warning, you'll probably end up wanting to hear everything he said.
That what I thought initially as well.
But perhaps if China sales are on the upswing, they may be ahead overall.
I’ll take apologies for all the insults I received over stating the 8 out sold the X in North America.
Clear example of cherry picking data by MR. That chart is a blood bath.
Substitute "Apple" with another upper tier brand (I won't say luxury because that word means different things to different people). Apple is no more interested in the lowest end of the phone market than Target is with the highest end of the men's shoe market. But Target does just fine not selling Ferragamo and Apple has revenue showing it does fine not selling bottom of the barrel electronics. Similarly, BMW, Merc, Audi, have not faltered because they don't have models to compete with a Chevy Spark or Opel Karl.
NOOOOOOOO thanks for pointing it out. made a massive goofup. apologies.
pints at lunch a bad idea
Specific unit sales. Not Apple Inc. as a whole.
The drop in iOS usage is not a good sign for the Services Revenue in the long run. That has been the only bright light for Apple over the past year.
iPhone X sales didn’t drop. They could not. It is, you know, brand new. Nothing to drop from. It’s previous sales were zero.