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This Year's iPhone X and iPhone X Plus Could Start at $899 and $999 Respectively Says RBC Analyst
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What do you mean, "RIGHT?" Apple just sold 83M iPhones in 14 weeks at an ASP of almost $800 (mortgage payment).
Frankly, people probably care about a smartphone more than owning a home.
Sounds good but everyone using Apple products is a beta tester
Have you heard of
High Sierra or
iOS 11? They are, independent of hardware, beta products.
I agree with
Most of the rest of your assessment especially the price. Glad I got
Mine at 45% off with a 2 year contract.
Still , full retail 80 percent of
Cost of X for a fourth go round design, the 8plus, is who I feel bad for in the landscape of Apple consumerism. That’s just me
Tho
I’m glad there’s options so we can all be different flavors of apple suckers
Yea, Tim has some creditability... not! I believe trump more then him.
Tim loves to say how he lets products compete against each other: lie!
He purposely holds back features through software to give the new model the edge. Another example is the MacBook Air and Mac mini, purposely kept with old year tech even though customers would prefer them over product under his rein of terror
Tim says Apple follows the spirit of the tax code: good thing Apple is an Irish company and all patents and r&d And profit are Irish! Apple - a good Irish company!!
I don’t feel like listing everything but he is a pr propaganda machine!
I agree with you, but to some it is still a very good phone for a more competitive price. Performance wise, it beats out some high end android devices, but it still brings in iOS and the benefits of the platform.
The lineup will be basically 4 models.
I don't know why we should consider previous years' phones as part of the most recent lineup. They just keep selling them, but I wouldn't call them part of the 2018 Apple lineup.
So we'll have 4 models:
- 2 high end phones, one normal-sized, one large, so basically 1 model, different sizes.
- 1 middle range model.
- 1 cheaper and smaller model (SE).
Adding to this, if you want, you can still buy the previous years' models.
Even if apple launches iPhone X at $999 in India then people will definitely buy it.. but because of govt. taxes the cost of 256GB goes around $1400 but people are still buying it..why?? because we Indians love apple and its the most fastest growing market foe apple despite the taxes. if apple somehow manages to lure the Indian govt. in opening its own manufacturing facility then I personally think apple will be ahead of all the competitors like Samsung (current market share 25%).
You follow those that monitor supply chain orders/inventory for X components. The X is is being outsold by the 8/8+.
I’m confused so they should charge less for a 6.5 inch phone and trash their margins while it’s okay for Samsung to make a profit?
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
That's the game many of us play. While Apple does NOT have something, that something is stupid, useless that "99% don't want or need", etc. But then, when Apple rolls that very same something out, it's "shut up and take my money" and "how did we ever get by without <something>", etc.
It was not so long ago the Apple proclaimed 3.5" screens as the "perfect" screen size. When others rolled out bigger screens, Apple ridiculed them and we right with them in lockstep. Then, Apple went to a 4" screen as the new "perfect" and we right with them, ridiculing everything larger than 4": "fragmentation", "poor developers", "pants with bigger pockets" and "one-handed use."
Then Apple adopts bigger screen phones and we roll right with them. I'm still to see pants with bigger pockets and there was apparently a huge leap in hand-size evolution because it's fairly rare to see anyone arguing for one-handed use anymore. Where did all that consumer opinion passion go?
NFC (pay with a phone) was a stupid, gimmick, that "nobody needed" when it was in non-Apple phones. But then Apple rolls out Apple Pay and we want to boycott stores that won't allow us to pay that way.
We thoroughly ridiculed the notch as "no way Apple would do that" when it was an early rumor. Now it's "I like the notch" and "I don't even notice it" is spun at every lingering doubt about it.
Basically, Apple can just do anything. A big chunk of us will readily accept that anything and then work double-time to try to convince everyone else that that anything is "must have." Lingering nay sayers about the anything will just be relentlessly shouted down because clearly "$2XX Billion in the bank can't be wrong."
Maybe the next phone will roll out with dual notches or notches on every side? Rumor that now and we'll probably collectively hate & ridicule the idea. Apple rolls it out? We'll love it: "the aesthetic balance of dual or quad notches is beautiful"... "I absolutely love the bezel-less phone with quad notches. Apple innovates a terrific solution for getting rid of those ugly bezels while still giving places for our thumbs or fingers to hold the front- genius!!!" Etc.
Maybe Apple will eject the camera or battery out to an add-on case so they can spin a "thinnest ever" phone for at least the same price and then increase revenue-per-unit-sold when pretty much everyone must BUY the case to power the new phone and/or take a picture with it. We'll just gush about Apple's genius as we find ourselves paying about $1000 for a phone and then adding about $300 for a case we have to have to be able to do what used to be baked INSIDE iPhones.
Maybe Apple will make the next ones out of rusted razor blades, causing users to bleed profusely every time they use them. We'll then spin that into how turning over our blood supply more frequently is good for our health.
Welcome to the fandom... where a corporation can make just any old decision and we'll passionately love it exactly as they choose to serve it up... and then work really hard- for free- to try to make everyone else love it too.
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I agree about the next 10 to 15 years but I also think we will see the phone turn more into a hub device with spoke add ons (Smart glasses,etc)
A one off cost vs a monthly mortgage payment are they even comparable? It all depends on people’s personal income, if you don’t have the money I don’t think anyone would suggest buying one. It’s not like the X is the only iPhone available.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
What are you talking about: latest & great iPhone or roof over their head?
Hello homelessness... but with the latest & greatest iPhone.
They could start at a dollar and I wouldn't buy them... and I love Apple products. But there's no reason to upgrade yearly or every other year anymore. Someone needs to leak some OS revisions.. I want new software with power user settings, new hardware changes are all extremely minimal these days.
I’m in Canada and just upgraded to the 8 Plus from a 6s only because it was $0 on contract and I didn’t have to change my plan. The X is really expensive here as it’s either $1490.47 or $1727.77 with tax in Ontario (the price of a mortgage payment). We’ve been paying $1000 for a phone since the iPhone 7 came out.
The 8 is $1000+ with tax in Ontario (not the Plus). I barely see any iPhone X’s in the wild. I know one person at work and maybe saw it two or three times on the train. If there is a X+ it’s gauranteed to be $2000 with taxes here, that’s insane to think about especially when I bought my first car for less then that.
The 8 is $1000+ with tax in Ontario (not the Plus). I barely see any iPhone X’s in the wild. I know one person at work and maybe saw it two or three times on the train. If there is a X+ it’s gauranteed to be $2000 with taxes here, that’s insane to think about especially when I bought my first car for less then that.
I think it's more so that people choose the Apple/iOS platform and are happy with any changes/features that are added over time. OLED, wireless charging, etc. would never make me switch platforms. I just wait until Apple implements as their execution is always solid and you know you're getting a good product. I don't think it's as complicated as you make it out to be. For many of us, Android offerings aren't even on our radar.
I don't think many people are paying full price all at once for these devices.
The original iPhone was just as expensive as the X too. It was $600 with a 2 year contract that subsidized it. At the time, carrier subsidies averaged $400, meaning other phones that typically sold for $599 without a contract would sell for $199 with a contract. So the original iPhone was actually a $1000 phone, but they didn’t let you buy it outright like that (it could only be purchased subsidized with a contract), so you don’t see people quoting that price.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
I respect that, but I was poking more toward how we will relentlessly HATE on such features that Apple doesn't have until Apple adds them. Then we love those features.
In other words, when the other guys have a great feature(s) that Apple does not, most of us will ridicule that feature(s) to no end... but then "shut up and take my money" love it when Apple adopts it. And there's the poke. Were we writing down what we really thought of such features before Apple had them... or just towing the company line?
I think you probably mean "tall and narrow" not "wide and narrow". But I see your take (after a second reading).
I am sure there are outliers, but I certainly haven't seen a ton of "hate" when it comes to certain features. I think most just look at it as something not that critical to have. Once Apple brings it to the iOS platform, people are excited to have the feature. Either way, you will always have certain people that follow the narrative you are describing. It's a shame, but it happens from people who prefer Android as well.
We’re they planning on keeping the original X this fall? I was thinking might be even better on the pocket to get the original, which would put it in the $749-799 range, which is a more acceptable cost for a top of the line model, just a generation old