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70% of forum members are going to click on this article to figure out who came up with such a ridiculous statistic

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Out of 10 friends not one was even aware of the new phone let alone plan to upgrade… Apple has fell from grace and the disparity gets wider each year. Siri is a joke and prices are expected to rise with Trump in office. Let’s face it Apple has lost is appeal. Only thing keeping it up is the monolithic hold it has from legacy products and brand loyalty. Newer customers are less likely to join as competition ups the ante
Yet, look at Apple stock prices in the past few weeks. They will make another 52 week high as soon as the next event concludes.
 
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Even though that I’m due for an upgrade, I’m not upgrading to the 17 series. I’m still going to hold my 15 pro until the 20th anniversary comes out.
 
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Let me just grab my calculator:

1. 'Only 3.3% of respondents indicated they are holding out specifically for a foldable iPhone'
2. 'A smaller share of users cited interest in foldables (7.5%)'
3. 'If Apple does not release a foldable iPhone by 2026, 20.1% of respondents say they would consider switching to Samsung, and 10.2% to Google'

On average, 13.7 ‰ or % ;)
 
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And this is a credible survey…..
The issue is not necessarily the survey. Average consumer is pretty clueless regarding AI. Some heard about Apple or ChatGPT and that’s it.
Copilot/Gemini is sometimes not even known. Most people have no idea what is Perplexity / Claude / Mistral etc

Most people here are tech enthusiasts, we do not represent average consumers
 
Out of 10 friends not one was even aware of the new phone let alone plan to upgrade… Apple has fell from grace and the disparity gets wider each year. Siri is a joke and prices are expected to rise with Trump in office. Let’s face it Apple has lost is appeal. Only thing keeping it up is the monolithic hold it has from legacy products and brand loyalty. Newer customers are less likely to join as competition ups the ante
That's a very small sample size to make such broad sweeping generalizations, which really don't apply to Apple's billions of customers at large.
 
“When asked which company leads in AI, 44% named Apple, while both Samsung and Google were selected by 6.6% of respondents. Ten percent of users said no brand currently leads in the AI space.”

This has pretty much nullified all the other statistics of this study for me.
 
Out of 10 friends not one was even aware of the new phone let alone plan to upgrade… Apple has fell from grace and the disparity gets wider each year. Siri is a joke and prices are expected to rise with Trump in office. Let’s face it Apple has lost is appeal. Only thing keeping it up is the monolithic hold it has from legacy products and brand loyalty. Newer customers are less likely to join as competition ups the ante
Everyone gets the friends they deserve – though, maybe there's a bit of a difference between you and Apple.
By the way, there's some rather amusing news about Trump's tariffs :D.

decyper44: It's strange that you can't be set to 'ignore' status here at Macrumors. Are you someone superior here?
 
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The issue is not necessarily the survey. Average consumer is pretty clueless regarding AI. Some heard about Apple or ChatGPT and that’s it.
Copilot/Gemini is sometimes not even known. Most people have no idea what is Perplexity / Claude / Mistral etc

Most people here are tech enthusiasts, we do not represent average consumers

The issue is that we given the results of the survey, but we don't know how the survey-takers were selected, or what the questions they were asked actually were.

These two factors can significantly affect the results.
 
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They don't claim what iPhone they are coming from. This could be 70% of people with an iphone 13 or below.
I’m on a 12 Pro and considering it. But not sure if I do it this year or wait one more. My battery health is down to 83%, but still hanging on and I’ve considered just replacing the battery soon. There really isn’t anything this phone doesn’t do that I want it to do. Greater zoom would be nice on the camera, but otherwise the camera is good enough 99% of the time for me. USB-C would be a nice change just to be on the more common connector for everything even though I don’t really have a problem with lighting. If they bump the max storage to 2TB, that might be it. I could put my whole music library just on my phone then at 256Kbit. The Rumored RAM bump would be nice, just hoping that if I disable apple intelligence, other apps get to use the RAM it would normally reserve because I have zero interest in apple intelligence and I don’t see that changing. But we’ll see I guess.
 
The issue is that we given the results of the survey, but we don't know how the survey-takers were selected, or what the questions they were asked actually were.

These two factors can significantly affect the results.
Why not be serious then? Only quote figures whose method of collection you are familiar with.
Anything else is a waste of your readers' time and serves only to polarize.
 
Out of 10 friends not one was even aware of the new phone let alone plan to upgrade… Apple has fell from grace and the disparity gets wider each year. Siri is a joke and prices are expected to rise with Trump in office. Let’s face it Apple has lost is appeal. Only thing keeping it up is the monolithic hold it has from legacy products and brand loyalty. Newer customers are less likely to join as competition ups the ante
They're not aware Apple releases a new phone every September and has for over a decade? Your friends sound like our mtc. department that seems completely surprised and taken aback that it gets colder around December; and this surprise happens every year.
 
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