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Kuo: Apple Increasing iPhone 14 Pro Production Due to Strong Demand
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I'm looking forward to the upcoming periscope cameras, that's going to be a full on popcorn show of bugs and issues.
To be fair, the regular and Pro models aren’t THAT different from each other, cost-wise. I think the small price difference is appropriate.
There’s a negligible cost difference to their own A-series (A16 vs A15) chips, and stainless steel isn’t more expensive than 7000-series aluminium, if at all. Yes, the Pro has the more expensive camera module, and the Pro’s screen should be slightly more expensive, but that’s mostly it.
Apple charge what they charge because they can. They successfully created this perceived difference in value by adding a 3rd lens, and convincing the world that steel was an expensive, luxury material, while 7000-series Aluminium is not. 🤷🏻♂️
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Great! My carrier screwed me over and I ended up having to leave my launch-day Pro Max at the store 😡 So I ordered directly from Apple, but I'm still seeing 10/27-11/03 delivery. Ordered on launch day, so a week after pre-orders started. 🙄😭
Good for Apple. Expecting to see more demand for 14 Plus in the holiday season.
Definitely the 1 yr Apple should NOT have made a non-pro iPhone.
Noticed the S7 Watch is gone too.
“You want to go to the island” lol. Apple needs to have an Ewan McGregor commercial based on The Island lol. “But h can’t I have some bacon?!”
I’ll bet more 5C clones/knock-offs sold than official 5C globally.
It was NOT stoping anyone looking at HTC M2/5 or any other android due to the screen being so large and price points was negligible in difference.
5C was the first budget iphone yes, yet didn’t do well as a budget comparison as most western world countries subsidies for 5S/6/6S was quite high already. I mean $99/129 vs 0 isn’t much of a wallet breaker. Most would wait until their next pay check.
I would be surprised if it does not ship sooner. If you check online, you will see various models for in store pick up the same day. Not sure if that is the stores receiving stock, or people returning devices that immediately show as in stock.
edit: was able to get a Pro Max for same day pickup just this morning.
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The iPhone 5c was my favorite iPhone, I don't even have to think hard about that. I don't remember if they tried to convince us it was brand new...but it was MORE brand new than the previous phones that would have occupied that slot. Those first couple of years, and in the next few years afterwards, Apple would release a new phone with the new stuff, and continue to sell last year's new phone at a discount. That's exactly what they did that year, too, but with a brand new (awesome) chassis. They gave us MORE than we should have expected at the time, in that slot! The build quality was excellent, the design was striking and youthful, and the phone had the best combination of materials and shape that Apple ever made. It was comfortable to hold and didn't slip out of your hand. I was (and, I guess, am) extremely disappointed that it didn't last.
(another note about your comment lower in this post)
It's worth noting that ever since introducing the "pro" lines, Apple has only ever replaced them, not sold them at a discount. The 11 pro, the 12 pro, the 13 pro were all available for one year only from Apple, and then were removed from the lineup.
Now, the 14 is more than a repackaged 13. It may not be MUCH more, but it is more. The things you get on a 14 that you don't on a 13:
--A15 Bionic chip instead of A15 chip (20% more GPU cores)
--Better camera (includes improved Cinematic Mode, and the new video-software-gimbal-whose-name-I-can't-remember-as-I-type-this)
--Reengineered chassis for easier reparability
--Satellite SOS
--Crash detection
(Oh and let's not forget: a max-sized phone in this part of the lineup, the largest screen ever available in an iPhone that wasn't a pro.)
Reasonable people can debate the value of any of those, but they ARE things that exist on the 14 that don't on the 13. Is that worth the extra $100 you'd spend over a new 13 (still available)? Again, reasonable people can debate that, but it's at least worth the consideration.
See, I remember seeing the the 5c all over the place! I lived in a college town, perhaps that was it. A little less expensive, a little more expressive?
I don't remember it being particularly "budget". It was the least expensive one in the lineup, but it was no more expensive than we would have expected the discounted 5 to be. This perhaps speaks to what the first person I quoted here said: Apple tried to position it as a brand new phone, and thus the $100 lower price (or was it $50? I think it was $100) was a bonus. That DOES support what the poster said. Anyway, as he said, I wasn't fooled, but it WAS still less money than the 5S (and a better phone: there, I said it!).
But everyone called it the "budget" iPhone except Apple. Apple didn't announce it as such, they didn't advertise it as such, they just had it available and advertised its bright and cheery design. Almost every review I remember CALLED it the budget iPhone and CHARACTERIZED it as Apple offering a budget iPhone...but Apple never said any such thing (at least not publicly).
Agree. The iPhone 5c was cheapest iPhone that year but not necessarily a "budget" phone. It was essentially a lower cost (polycarbonate instead of aluminum) version of the 5 from the year before.
The 2013 U.S. retail price (without a 2 year carrier contract) for the 16GB 5c was $549 compared to $649 for the 16GB 5s which launched at the same time.
Looks like they are cutting back across the board.
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