Of course that the iPhone X is very popular. A local radio station giveaway many iPhone X every day in March quarter. For weeks! Never heard of this huge promotion before...
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Tim Cook: iPhone X is a 'Super Bowl Winner' Even if You Wanted It to Win 'By a Few More Points'
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Since Apple won't tell people how many iPhones they are selling, it's probably the case that whatever is the most recently release iPhone is the most popular phone "that week".
Since November 2017 each week the average sales could be:
iPhone X = 21%
iPhone 8 Plus = 15%
iPhone 8 = 20%
iPhone 7 plus = 7%
iPhone 7 = 17%
iPhone 6s = 10%
iPhone SE = 10%
This means Apple can report it's the best selling iPhone each week, despite it being an OK seller but nothing spectacular. The increasing revenue is the result of the average selling price going up because the iPhone X is so expensive.
Since November 2017 each week the average sales could be:
iPhone X = 21%
iPhone 8 Plus = 15%
iPhone 8 = 20%
iPhone 7 plus = 7%
iPhone 7 = 17%
iPhone 6s = 10%
iPhone SE = 10%
This means Apple can report it's the best selling iPhone each week, despite it being an OK seller but nothing spectacular. The increasing revenue is the result of the average selling price going up because the iPhone X is so expensive.
I want the iPhone X, but won't buy because I can barely use it with 1 hand. It's just too big for me. I won't buy the regular iPhone 8 because I feel like the X has the features I'm really interested in and so buying the 8 would be a compromise. So, solution, don't buy anything 
I get that splitting a product line into multiple products helps optimize reach and revenue, but I'm not price sensitive, I'm size sensitive darn it! Sell the X in a smaller form factor and I'll get it.
Since X is too big, and 8 is a compromise, and since I'm now going to compromise, I might as well, really compromise and get the SE 2...
I get that splitting a product line into multiple products helps optimize reach and revenue, but I'm not price sensitive, I'm size sensitive darn it! Sell the X in a smaller form factor and I'll get it.
Since X is too big, and 8 is a compromise, and since I'm now going to compromise, I might as well, really compromise and get the SE 2...
Interesting that Cook said he was “surprised.” It is confirming that Apple intended the iPhone 8 to be the mass flagship (thus it is the one getting the Product red treatment), while the X was supposed to be for early adopters (thus the high price). The market obviously shows how strong Apple brand is.
Heck, I’m traveling in emerging markets, and it is fascinating how many people have the X, considering the price.
Heck, I’m traveling in emerging markets, and it is fascinating how many people have the X, considering the price.
I think they were nervous with this release, which might explain not giving review units to journalists that far in advance before launch instead of just to strum up hype and mysteriousness
Tim Cook: "Meh…good enough."
Steve Jobs: "Why TF is there a notch here? GET OUT AND DON'T COME BACK TILL ITS GONE!!!"
Steve Jobs: "Why TF is there a notch here? GET OUT AND DON'T COME BACK TILL ITS GONE!!!"
I think he meant to say "even though we excluded helpful features for no reason, such as TouchID and the headphone jack."
Right... Yet Jobs did the puck mouse...
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Or maybe you are wrong. Even getting 21% off a $1500 phone would be spectacular. You're playing semantics.
lol I used almost no caps, barring CNN where thats where its usually seen vs. cnn lower cased, and where I write, RIDICULOUS ... except where I copied and pasted what's directly on gruber's blog quite literally, that link to the samsung display thing.
Im not rooting against iPhone X, I own one. The sales numbers speak on their own, they don't affect me one way or another-- and I don't really have skin in the game. Tho since this is personal to you and you are dying to find out, my take is that I'm happy for Apple but more specifically the team behind it. Honestly,
...I'm just ridiculing Gruber for being a flip flopping man baby. I can do that.
I love the defensiveness, tho.
That too is, here come the caps, brace yourself, it might be too much: HILARIOUS
Perhaps it is you who should keep trying
Also-
"No matter how much you write"
...Really?
Thanks for ridiculing the fact that I do submit posts on this forum too, like I see you doing as well. Sic burn bro.
Oh wow you’re right, for some reason I thought you referring to Cook. Complete misunderstanding and embarrassing on my part
Unless we see actual numbers and not a composite sale chart, I personally don't trust the same cardboard CEO who throttled our phones and delayed every recent product release while getting hot and bothered over any random social issue.
The analogy that comes to my mind isn't SuperBowl, it's Facebook and how they still tally mass popularity and subscribers even after they supposedly mucked up their users' trust with #CambridgeAnalytica, #DeleteFacebook and whatnot. Both unstoppable and too big to fail.
Apparently consumers don’t care all that much whether their devices are throttled or data is tossed, all the same.
The analogy that comes to my mind isn't SuperBowl, it's Facebook and how they still tally mass popularity and subscribers even after they supposedly mucked up their users' trust with #CambridgeAnalytica, #DeleteFacebook and whatnot. Both unstoppable and too big to fail.
Apparently consumers don’t care all that much whether their devices are throttled or data is tossed, all the same.
Correct, I'm commenting on Apple's semantics and discussing them, which is also semantics.
The iPhone X could be a moderate flop and what Tim Cook has said here appears to say it sold well, but he's not really said anything.
Clever wording by the CEO. Of course the iPhone X was the most popular iPhone because he treats the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus as two separate products entirely.
But if you compare iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus combined sales against the iPhone X then the iPhone 8 "platform" wins handily. That is what all the analysts have been saying.
Heck some of them even said iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus sales combined were outselling the iPhone X and we have no indication that's not true either.
App developers with very large install bases are also saying the same thing, 8 and 8+ combined are outselling the iPhone X quite considerably but neither model on its own beats the iPhone X.
But if you compare iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus combined sales against the iPhone X then the iPhone 8 "platform" wins handily. That is what all the analysts have been saying.
Heck some of them even said iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus sales combined were outselling the iPhone X and we have no indication that's not true either.
App developers with very large install bases are also saying the same thing, 8 and 8+ combined are outselling the iPhone X quite considerably but neither model on its own beats the iPhone X.
I think you're being generous! Analysts said the iPhone X was a flop. In my book, they were wrong.
Would a survey of iPhone activations be a good start?
https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/iphone_8_X
The iPhone X is a little more than the iPhone 8 and 8 plus in terms of activation rates, which can be substituted for sales.
First off, I’m assuming that you must have googled something about the ‘iPhone X doing poorly’ and you just decided to post this random article, which the link is dated way back from January, which is an old rumor and has NOT been validated at all.
Clearly your intentions is to downplay the iPhone X intentionally, even given though it’s success that’s been proven time again from past and today’s earning calls.
So FaceID and Animoji are probably the only ‘innovations’ to expect of the iPhone over the next years? Oh dear...
On a related note, does anyone have a 4-year-old Samsung phone with an OLED screen that still looks good? Just saying...
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Welcome to the smartphone plateau.
I just don't think £999 was too much to spend for the X; I still love mine.