Yeah, not sure where he got his data; Apple market share in smartphones is dropping; #3, I believe, soon to be 4. The financials were boosted by services.
But is that the result of Apple nickel-and-diming Chinese consumers or are there other market dynamics at work there?
one doesn't exclude the other, could be both. but apple losing market share to android in the last year or two.
That's quite a bad analogy. If you're allegedly doing anything to malevolently cripple older devices in order to drive sales, it doesn't make a lot of sense to go out of your way to ensure 8 year old devices keep working properly. That's what I'm getting at.
Seems you didn't understand at all what that whole battery drama was about. Basically, Apple prevented iPhones with badly worn batteries from randomly (as the user perceives it) shutting off. That is at it's core a good thing and prolongs the usable life of devices. The issue with it all was mostly a communications one. But that has been discussed ad nauseam around here over a year ago.
Judging by the rise of Huawei phone sales and drop in iPhone sales, people definitely are flocking to Huawei. Also, people there might be multiple reasons for people to stick who older phones (like iPhone 6). One of the important ones is that they do not want to spend $1K on a phones (and some may simply not have the money). It is very likely that when they have to upgrade, many won't go with iPhone anymore.
No, they aren’t...at least not iOS users. Android users might be, but iPhone user base continues to grow. Samsung sales have dropped significantly, far worse than Apple. Huawei hurts other Android phones, not so much iOS.
I have friends who still use the iPhone 6. I ask isn't it time to upgrade and they're like, why. I just had a friend who upgraded from an iPhone 5 to the XR. Not because the 5 was running slow or anything like that. He dropped it cracking the screen.
Apple doesn't answer questions like this. They put out what information they want. I'm sure you knew that though
“The issues...was mostly a communications one”. That is I suppose one way of describing the act of deliberately keeping key information from phone owners resulting in many people giving up a good working phone and forking out substantial cash to buy a new one.
I am well aware of the situation. If Apple's motives were so pure they wouldn't have felt the need to keep it a secret. They would've told customers who came in complaining about slowdowns on their phone that they should just replace the battery rather than convince them to buy a new iPhone. But you are free to believe Apple's explanation.
True...I own Googl shares, but they flat out suck at making hardware. Great business overall, incompetent at hardware design and should give it up and focus on monetizing data.
Apple never mentions RAM for phones.
Phone Arena wouldn’t know.
Or even better.
That's just your wishful thinking. The reality is very different:
BankMyCell is just one trade-in service of many however. Its data also conflicts with CIRP research issued in January, which pointed to loyalty rates of 91% for iPhones
