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Pre-Orders for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Top 100,000 in South Korea, Outpace Samsung Galaxy Note 4 [Updated]
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I agree that Apple was behind on pushing resolution independent apps.
They were also, as predicted long ago, partially trapped in screen size because of their emphasis on one-handed usage, and their lack of a Back button under the thumb. That's why they had to come up with the Back swipe, which isn't universally usable.
That's not even in the same chuckle league as Tim Cook talking about 4" iPhones, just a year before following in Samsung's footsteps:
"We've put a lot of thinking into screen size and we think we've picked the right one."
Based on the number of the 4" model sold, he probably isn't crying.
thats more of a strategy to throw the competition off. They do that with every product.That's not even in the same chuckle league as Tim Cook talking about 4" iPhones, just a year before following in Samsung's footsteps:
"We've put a lot of thinking into screen size and we think we've picked the right one."
Everything is relative.
Just look at the incredible difference in China and Korea sales now that a larger screen is available.
That would've been nice to have earlier on.
Um... well there is this thing they do called 'android'. Apparently quite a few phones and tablets use it as their OS now.
trusted sources? On this forum we present trusted sources or it just ignored. Went to the mall yesterday the Samsung experience kiosk was closed, not a good sign
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one of john Gruber's podcast goes into depth why that wasn't possible
Nice for MacRumors to leave out a key part of information. As has been noted by other news sources, Samsung only allotted each carrier 10,000 preorders, while Apple hasn't limited the amount.
That puts it in a perspective a bit.
All three phones are great, and all three will sell a ton.
That puts it in a perspective a bit.
All three phones are great, and all three will sell a ton.
The Korean analyst quoted in the original WSJ article also estimated that the iPhone 6 and 6 plus would ship 5x more units than worldwide than the Galaxy s5 and Note 4 combined. http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/10/27/koreans-snap-up-new-iphones-in-presales/
You don't seem to understand how skewed this story is. The whole point I'm making is that the preorder total includes BOTH iPhones. It is illogical to compare the preorders of one phone in one size (Note 4) to preorders of a phone in two different sizes (6/6+). A comparison of the Note 4 preorders to the iPhone 6+ preorders would be more accurate.
It's especially impressive when you consider that selling iPhones in South Korea (the home of Samsung) is a bit like selling Air Conditioners in Alaska...
This just in: sales of anti-diarrhoea medicines in Suwon, Korea have quadrupled
Too... indirect. Took me around 30 seconds to figure out what you were talking about.
I guess the iPhone 6 and 6+ is coming on board in PH. Smart PH is starting promote the 6 in the Philippines already.
Agreed. I love apple just as much as the next person...but I think samsung, google, HTC, etc make some great products...which leads to better products all around.
This type of article only serves to generate views and in turn revenue. Did the original WSJ article mention this? If not...very disappointing.
I have a nice and affordable smartphone with very nice software because of Google. Millions of Windows users have a decent browser and the web and its apps because of Google.
