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Survey: 35% of U.S. Consumers Planning to Purchase Next-Generation iPhone
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I would guess Virgin Mobile. My daughter has had that same plan for over a year. $25 per month, no contract. 300 minutes of voice, unlimited internet and text.
It isn't?
It's pretty easy to offer something for free when you didn't invest the time and money on the original R & D in the first place. "Oh I like what they're doing, I'll do the same thing and then give it away for free. It'll take off like wildfire because people like free stuff".
Google give away stuff for free so they can sell your soul to their real customers their advertisers.
Make no mistake, if the Android devices weren't free, they wouldn't be nearly as popular as they are. I'm not saying Android devices are crap because they're not, they simply should be paying royalties to Apple is all.
Google loves open source. Just ask them. EXCEPT when it comes to their search algorithms that is. They'd fight tooth and nail to protect that I'm sure.
How profound, an internet shopping website takes a survey and releases:
Obviously, PriceGrabbers survey doesn't not necessarily represent the US consumers.
Claiming that 35 percent of consumers will buy the next iPhone is just as flawed... it's an internet shopping site taking an online survey from internet shoppers!
What maybe of use, however, is the ratio of 35% vs 19 % vs 7/6%... for US online shoppers.
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Obviously, PriceGrabbers survey doesn't not necessarily represent the US consumers.
Claiming that 35 percent of consumers will buy the next iPhone is just as flawed... it's an internet shopping site taking an online survey from internet shoppers!
What maybe of use, however, is the ratio of 35% vs 19 % vs 7/6%... for US online shoppers.
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It is most definitely true that many people turn to Android because the phone is free. Android hands have become SOOOOO commoditized. It's a sad state of fragmentation and ******* hardware. It's not at all an open system, it's a feudal system.
Good question. With the iCloud, Apple may think that nobody needs 64GB. Or stick with 32 to keep the cost of drive components down so they can improve other components and still keep margins and current price points.
Who knows. But I would love 64GB.
Apple will sell tens of millions of it for sure, they'll make billions, and stock will go up, but this study is really flawed.
The sample is self-selected, and comes from pricegrabber visitors. To say that it's representative of all US consumers, is just silly.
The sample is self-selected, and comes from pricegrabber visitors. To say that it's representative of all US consumers, is just silly.
It looks like Pricegrabber has been releasing survey data on a range of consumer topics for years.
I'm confused about Pricegrabber's research methodologies. Does anyone know if Pricegrabber actually conduct legit well controlled sample appropriate surveys of consumers? Or do they just toss up a survey online and post the results like so many websites?
I'm confused about Pricegrabber's research methodologies. Does anyone know if Pricegrabber actually conduct legit well controlled sample appropriate surveys of consumers? Or do they just toss up a survey online and post the results like so many websites?
I was thinking the same thing... That said, I'm amongst the 35% as long as the Verizon version is had global compatibility.
You don't even have to argue that fact. If you do some searching around, you'll find those Neilsen surveys (along with a few other) from late last year that showed a whopping 25% of current Android users were planning to buy an iPhone next time around. The same surveys showed about %7 of iPhone owners planning to jump ship.
If you believe all these consumer surveys, it would seem that Android is good at grabbing first-time buyers but lousy and making long-term customers of them. No coincidence that many Android owners I know are planning to move to an iPhone. Don't know anyone planning to go the other way however.
don't tell anyone but one time i put false information down on a survey.
a friend of mine did the same.
a friend of mine did the same.
Won't be rolled out in the UK til 2013.
Despite the whining of a few here, LTE/4G is an irrelevance to almost everybody.
I could see that percent. With so many people being fed up with android or what ever mobile they currently own they believe apple is now the way to go.
Bigger screen
Ipad2 insides
Better Camera
= Upgrading for me
I'm really happy with the iphone4, and like the ipad1->ipad2 spec bump I upgraded and saw a great improvement.
Along with IOS5, the iphone 4s/5 will be great!!
Ipad2 insides
Better Camera
= Upgrading for me
I'm really happy with the iphone4, and like the ipad1->ipad2 spec bump I upgraded and saw a great improvement.
Along with IOS5, the iphone 4s/5 will be great!!
"Survey: 35% of U.S. Consumers Planning to Purchase Next-Generation iPhone"
Bzzt. Wrong.
Either the OP doesn't understand statistics or, more likely, Macrumors is trying yet again to artificially boost pageviews with misleading headlines.
35% of RESPONDENTS, which according to the original article do not appear to be random but self-selected online consumers, indicated they would purchase the next gen iPhone.
To put this in perspective, a sample size of 3000 even randomized is relatively meaningless as it's less than 1/1,000,000th of the US population. Even less meaningful when you consider that the sample is actually nonrandom, and that the particular set of respondents being online could easily have skewed the results skyward.
Bzzt. Wrong.
Either the OP doesn't understand statistics or, more likely, Macrumors is trying yet again to artificially boost pageviews with misleading headlines.
35% of RESPONDENTS, which according to the original article do not appear to be random but self-selected online consumers, indicated they would purchase the next gen iPhone.
To put this in perspective, a sample size of 3000 even randomized is relatively meaningless as it's less than 1/1,000,000th of the US population. Even less meaningful when you consider that the sample is actually nonrandom, and that the particular set of respondents being online could easily have skewed the results skyward.
35% of all earthlings planning to buy next generation iPhone!
Estimated sales: 2.45 Billion units!
Also, my neighbors cat responded favorably to me saying "iPhone 5", so I feel confident we can count on 100% of all domesticated cats also planning to buy one.
Derp.
Estimated sales: 2.45 Billion units!
Also, my neighbors cat responded favorably to me saying "iPhone 5", so I feel confident we can count on 100% of all domesticated cats also planning to buy one.
Derp.
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