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Turnout for iPhone 8 Launch in Australia 'Bleak' as Customers Hold Out for Upcoming iPhone X
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From that:
"I don't like iPhones," a Samsung-owning server told me.
"Why not?"
"I can't personalize them."
"So do you personalize yours?"
"No, but I could."
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But it was a server, the mother of three adult children, who told me that she knew about the X and Face ID freaked her out. "I wouldn't feel safe with that. I think it's a way for them to follow us around," she said.
"Why not?"
"I can't personalize them."
"So do you personalize yours?"
"No, but I could."
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But it was a server, the mother of three adult children, who told me that she knew about the X and Face ID freaked her out. "I wouldn't feel safe with that. I think it's a way for them to follow us around," she said.
I heard the working title of that junk piece was "Fool Discusses iPhone With Idiots."
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Nobody has any numbers of anything, just anecdotal “evidence”. Creating panick = the lemmings all sell, giving the bigger players a lower entry
The assumption that people are waiting for the X are cute. If you don’t catch customers with a fairly reasonable priced phone, you sure will not catch them with a clearly overpriced phone.
People have no reasons to buy a phone each year. And they have no reasons to pay 1000 dollars for it. Even most die hard apple fans see no real reason to upgrade, nor that there is a huge demand for the extreme notch edition.
The 8 is nice, i would buy it if i would not have an iPhone yet. The X is a joke, you could get three SE for this price and still be able to use 90% of what the x offers.
Apple should keep in touch with the times. The smartphone era is over, now comes mobile payments and health services. Making your phones so expensive that people stop buying them kicks you out of future markets.
Apple slowly becomes the next Nokia. Back in those days we all expected Nokia to stay forever. Their business was a lot like apples is today.
People have no reasons to buy a phone each year. And they have no reasons to pay 1000 dollars for it. Even most die hard apple fans see no real reason to upgrade, nor that there is a huge demand for the extreme notch edition.
The 8 is nice, i would buy it if i would not have an iPhone yet. The X is a joke, you could get three SE for this price and still be able to use 90% of what the x offers.
Apple should keep in touch with the times. The smartphone era is over, now comes mobile payments and health services. Making your phones so expensive that people stop buying them kicks you out of future markets.
Apple slowly becomes the next Nokia. Back in those days we all expected Nokia to stay forever. Their business was a lot like apples is today.
Their lives don't revolve around what amounts to fancy office equipment so they are idiots? Bravo, your arrogance is right on par for what someone expects from an Apple fan. They don't buy $2500 Macbook Pros and $1000 iPhones. They get whatever is cheap or free and keep it for as long as they can.
Apple screwed up in my opinion. They should have had the X ready to go especially since they said they have been working on it for years. Maybe the hype will come back. I am waiting on the X but my enthusiasm has certainly dropped.
The X and the 8 are simple spec bumps, plain and simple. I don't recall where it was, but an article I read the other day boiled it down to: smartphones are simply tools that do (or help do) jobs for people. There is absolutely nothing the X or 8 do that a 5, 6, or 7 can't. So for 90% of the population, there is no reason to upgrade. Face ID? Touch ID already does that quite well (and still, most people don't use it). AMOLED display? Retina's pretty darn good already. And on a screen that's only 4-6", who cares? Camera? Meh. Love some of the portrait features, but there's no way I'm buying a $1,000 phone for them. Water resistance? Kinda nice, admittedly. But in the year I've had my 7, I haven't really needed it. And my earlier phones survived just fine without it.
The smartphone concept is fairly mature and this is what we're dealing with now. The innovation needs to be in new capabilities - truly new capabilities. The question Jony and Tim need to be asking is: "What do I wish the phone could do for me?", not "Can I shave a mm off here, or add a megapixel to the camera?".
The smartphone concept is fairly mature and this is what we're dealing with now. The innovation needs to be in new capabilities - truly new capabilities. The question Jony and Tim need to be asking is: "What do I wish the phone could do for me?", not "Can I shave a mm off here, or add a megapixel to the camera?".
What else can be added to a smartphone at this point? Innovation is great but smart phone tech has really reached maturity.
Its the price + the more exciting one coming out in Nov I imagine. I wonder how much Apple anticipated this. I'm sure their research groups would have given them a big heads up about it.
"What else can be added to a smartphone at this point? "... is due to lack of imagination.
Totally bungled this. They either should have done the X in the midpoint (spring?) between main launches or had them all ready at once. This announcing a premium option but saying to wait another month or two longer will cripple the sales of the 8. I don't understand why Apple can't see this?
I've been thinking that someone at Apple should read "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less" by Barry Schwartz. There are so many SKUs of iPhone now that I believe average consumer cannot walk into an Apple Store, choose a model, a colour, and a storage capacity then walk away feeling they got the right device for them. This ruins that sense of wonder they get when they open the box and use it because they're thinking about their choices and whether they made the right ones for them.
What, you mean make money hand over fist with amazing new products? Absolutely.
Enough with pretending you know what a guy you never met would think.
This is such a good point. The waters are getting muddied and consumers are caring less about "the new iPhone" because there's so many of them. It's hard to see what makes each different and worth upgrading when you don't follow rumor and tech sites like we do.
Loads of nonsense. If you believe the 8 is a minor upgrade, you aren’t paying attention. Performance wise it’s blowing everything out of the water. Especially the android knockoffs.
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Prove it.
How do stories about a device having serious production issues "hype it"? It makes me want to avoid it for fear that I'm going to spend a lot of time at the Apple Store with problems.
You don’t like the direction Apple is going - you mean the fastest smartphone portable computers on earth?
I'm actually thinking of buying an iPhone 8 Plus because I *LOVE* my TouchID, and don't want to give it up. I'm betting the 8/8+ will be the last iPhones with TouchID, so at least this way I get to have it as long as possible before I inevitably have to upgrade to another phone.
There's no rush, though, as my 7+ is still quite adequate. If I pick up an 8+ next year I'll get the SIM-free version so I have a Qualcomm chipset and Verizon as an option.
There's no rush, though, as my 7+ is still quite adequate. If I pick up an 8+ next year I'll get the SIM-free version so I have a Qualcomm chipset and Verizon as an option.
It’s already been hyped. There is zero profit in a phone that can’t be sold. Apple gains nothing, loses $ if they intentionally hold back inventory. Stock then blows up. Loser plan for Apple.
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People want the best so it’s not ludicrous that they would wait for something perceived to be so for a couple hundred more. People interested in a $1000 phone are not all that price conscious.
Honestly if that's the case, I'm perfectly happy waiting for my phone to die. I have a 6s+ and there is zero reason to get a 7+ or a 8+ for that matter. They should have been the 6ss+ and 6sss+ as they're all nearly identical except for minor speed bumps which I don't see any need for. Apple has really jumped the shark lately. The X is their only saving grace...