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Over 100 Million iPhones Now in Use in U.S., Nearly Two-Thirds Are iPhone 6 or Later
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The headline makes me wonder where all those old iPhones went?
Shipped off to developing nations?
Shipped off to developing nations?
The chart shows iPhones currently in-use in the US.
There are waaay more older iPhones in-use from a year or two ago... than phones that just came out two months ago.
Basically... you bought an iPhone 6 last year... and you're still using it today.
Mine just ended today, actually (got the text from VZW). However, with all the refinements to iOS from 7-9, my 5S is still going strong.
In fact, the option of waiting until next year's launch is looking more and more attractive. That way, I'll already be off contract when the iPhone 7 Plus comes out, and it'll be an even bigger upgrade for me.
Yes, thank you Chinese labor force. Thank you for living in one of the cheapest regions in the world so that your salary equals minimum wage in this country (USA) and you have to work overtime like many minimum wage earning workers in the USA.
Just having fun
Just having fun
From previous CIRP research a few years ago:
- About 50% of used iPhones end up in drawers.
- About 30% are gifted down to someone else.
- About 20% are sold.
Amazing.
In Sept 2013 there were about $53 million active iPhones in the USA
In Sept 2015 that number almost DOUBLED to $100 million
In Sept 2013 there were about $53 million active iPhones in the USA
In Sept 2015 that number almost DOUBLED to $100 million
US population is at 326M people per http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
So just about 1 in 3 people in the US has an iphone.
However, according to the census, 62% are 18-62 (what I would expect to be the prime purchasers of smartphones), so 202M. So half of the buyers of smartphones in the US buy iphones.
That is a pretty amazing.
Please like my statistical gymnastics
So just about 1 in 3 people in the US has an iphone.
However, according to the census, 62% are 18-62 (what I would expect to be the prime purchasers of smartphones), so 202M. So half of the buyers of smartphones in the US buy iphones.
That is a pretty amazing.
Please like my statistical gymnastics
Is it odd?
The 5 is a year older than the 5C. So the 5 would be out-of-service quicker than the 5C.
Waiting for the obligatory people to pop in with "Apple is doomed"?
Nice market penetration tho by Apple
Some of the "in use" figures surprise me but all in all glad
is hanging onto legacy users ( in your face ill informed friends and Fandroids that tried to tell me iPhone shelf life and usefulness pales to Android devices )
Nice market penetration tho by Apple
Some of the "in use" figures surprise me but all in all glad
is hanging onto legacy users ( in your face ill informed friends and Fandroids that tried to tell me iPhone shelf life and usefulness pales to Android devices )
US population is at 326M people per http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
So just about 1 in 3 people in the US has an iphone.
However, according to the census, 62% are 18-62 (what I would expect to be the prime purchasers of smartphones), so 202M. So half of the buyers of smartphones in the US buy iphones.
That is a pretty amazing.
Please like my statistical gymnastics
You beat me to it with this post. It is indeed very impressive, and makes sense, because it does seem like every other person I come across has an iPhone of some sort.
Worldwide numbers are very different for this - Far more people on 4S's and 5's iirc.
I think because the 5 was only sold from 2012-2013, unlike almost every other iPhone that was sold for at least 2 years. the 5C was on sale from 2013 till only recently.
I think because the 5 was only sold from 2012-2013, unlike almost every other iPhone that was sold for at least 2 years. the 5C was on sale from 2013 till only recently.
They are the exact same phone internally. I'm just saying there is no reason why a 5 bought in 2013 would perform worse (or better) than a 5c bought in 2013.
The iPhone 5c was marketed as a budget phone. The people buying it are probably less likely to dump their phone for an upgrade.
Odd that they did this through a survey... m
You know, when I see statements like this, I wonder if the poster owns other products made at the same exact facility as Apple? And if so, do they post these types of things on the Samsung site? Or HP, Microsoft, or Lenovo?
You know, when I see statements like this, I wonder if the poster owns other products made at the same exact facility as Apple? And if so, do they post these types of things on the Samsung site? Or HP, Microsoft, or Lenovo?
I mean that there would be less 5's out in the wild simply because it was sold for a short period of time, and people's contacts with 5's would have now ended, where as the 5C was sold for longer and more recently meaning more people would be on contracts still.
CIRP's numbers are extrapolated from a September 2015 survey of 500 U.S. Apple customers who purchased an Apple product in the preceding quarter. CIRP analyzes data on iPhone buyers, their new model selection, and their prior phones and compares that to iPhone sales data adjusted to the U.S. market.
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That's some seriously flawed methodology. Only people who bought an Apple product in the preceding quarter? Only 500 such people? Not enough sample size or randomness to properly gauge what people are doing with older/replaced models.
The power of branding. The numbers of tablets and notebooks would probably match that of iPhones if the pricing was competitive.