Should I dust off shoulder pads, digital watch and Belinda Carlisle?
I will take one for the team: I volunteer to dust Belinda Carlisle off. Personally.
Should I dust off shoulder pads, digital watch and Belinda Carlisle?
It's called business. All Apple are guilty of are trying to expand their market share by making Apple available to people who cannot afford the current iPhone (with or without a contract). Your post is backward - old Apple thinking. IF you don't like them - stick to the premium iPhone, which will still be available. The days of Apple snobbery are over.
It will just all be iPhone, I think. Like the iPod Touch Line. This low-cost iPhone will just be a lower storage capacity probably.
This is innovation at its best.
Apple is back !
If in doubt - and you need to distract your user base away from the fact you've not had any decent innovative ideas for the past two years ....colourise!
Sorted!
come to think of it, yeah you are probably right.
the low cost colourful iphone only available in 16 GB = the cheap one
and the flagship iphone could start from 32 GB. I'm speculating with the pricing here, so it could be :
16 GB colorful iphone = $499 (no contract)
32 GB flagship iphone = $699 (no contract)
64 GB flagship iphone = $799 (no contract)
128 GB flagship iphone = $899 (no contract)
you clearly don't understand the roots of success of apple. apple losing this philosophy will just slowly take them to where sony has been coming from, aor even worse back to where it was where steve left it. steve brought in the philosophy that you call snobbery that founded the success of the company that brought you the iPhone.
if i like Apple, i buy apple. if i want something that apple doesnt do, i.e. cheap, designed for price products, then i will go somewhere else.
come to think of it, yeah you are probably right.
the low cost colourful iphone only available in 16 GB = the cheap one
and the flagship iphone could start from 32 GB. I'm speculating with the pricing here, so it could be :
16 GB colorful iphone = $499 (no contract)
32 GB flagship iphone = $699 (no contract)
64 GB flagship iphone = $799 (no contract)
128 GB flagship iphone = $899 (no contract)
Does the back of an iPhone sold outside the US look any different than one sold in he US? Seriously, I don't know. If it does, you may have a point. If it does not, you do not.
And every prototype or test unit have ever seen has the FCC info on it.
This "lower cost" phone is going to look better than the more expensive model!
haha, just like that you took off $50 retail price from msrp of $649. apple never going to lower their price.
the found a sweet spot of $649 ($199 contract) - they will keep it until the iPhone sales slow down.
$299 - dream on - at least it will be $399 ($450 - iPhone 4 - it will be even huge they take off $50).
I get the sarcasm, but really, how is any company supposed to come up with a completely new type of device, like the iPhone or iPad, every couple of years? Are people really that bored with life? I'm getting tired of seeing the word "innovative" and "innovation" everywhere. Stop being a bunch of monkeys and say something original.
The cost of the iPhone5 is $207 to manufacture, the 4S is around $195. So technically they could even sell the current iPhone at $299 and the cost of goods doesn't justify the price increase, but investors like their margins. I'm wondering how much it will cost the cheap iPhone to manufacture and how different the internals will be. I'm guessing the casing probably drops the cost from 5 bucks for aluminum to 25 cents
What would the naming be then?
Low cost iphone = iphone
Iphone 5s = the new iphone / iphone pro
Cause obviously apple would drop the numbering when this one comes out, just like the ipad.
Edit :
come to think of it, yeah you are probably right.
the low cost colourful iphone only available in 16 GB = the cheap one
and the flagship iphone could start from 32 GB. I'm speculating with the pricing here, so it could be :
16 GB colorful iphone = $499 (no contract)
32 GB flagship iphone = $699 (no contract)
64 GB flagship iphone = $799 (no contract)
128 GB flagship iphone = $899 (no contract)
I understand the success of Apple and business very well thank you, but we don't live in the world you speak of any more. Steve is gone, that argument is redundant and irritating. See "The Ansoff Matrix" for answers as to why Apple are releasing an alternative iPhone.
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$499 is far too expensive.
it should stay about products. let other brands fill the price points.
let apple lead and innovate products by example.
i don't care what you think. you clearly don't get it. the motivation for releasing more iPhones that are cheap will be more and more about money, and less and less about product. which is the unhealthy balance. the more apple become seduced by market share competition, and numbers.. money.. the less like Apple they become.
it should stay about products. let other brands fill the price points.
let apple lead and innovate products by example.
are you just envious that more and more people will have your same phone/computer/tablet?
No need to be so rude! I get it, I work it, I know business...I just disagree with you completely...and if you are going to get all heated up about it, I don't wish to discuss anything with you. Ok? I get it. My argument makes as much sense as yours - they are just on different sides. In saying that, my argument is based on business sense and yours on nothing but pure nostalgia and snobbery. Even ghetto kids have iPhones these days, so don't think you are something special just because you sit in a cafe with your MacBook and iPhone. Every Tom, Dick & Harry has Apple products these days. Apple is not BMW. Your business plan worked 5 years ago, but the market has changed considerably since then. Plus, learn to punctuate. It belittles whatever intelligence you do possess.
not at all.
i recommend everyone i've met to get a Mac computer or apple product, despite the pricing putting them off.
if you read my other pages, i don't discourage apple making products as a consumer / pro hybrid company. they just shouldn't race to the bottom for saturation in market share or be affected by samsung saturating the inevitable remaining larger market.
apple are a Premium product company. being a CONSUMER company, doesn't mean you sacrifice premium. its about premium pro and consumer electronics.
i trust tim cook and apple. i dont trust that tim cook can withstand persuasion of others but he clearly understands apples philosophy based on the interviews i've seen.
iPad Mini, still an expensive premium product, lends me much faith they haven't lost this philosophy yet. they will however if they start releasing plastic ipads.