Posted on 12/26/2017 7:42:38 AM PST by C19fan
Shares of Apple and its suppliers tumbled this week after multiple industry analysts predicted weak demand for the new flagship iPhone. Apple's (AAPL) stock slid by as much as 4% in premarket trading Tuesday.
The radically redesigned iPhone X was supposed to give Apple a boost following several years of sinking sales. Early sales reports were positive, and Morgan Stanley reported last week that the iPhone X is especially hot in China.
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We got a deal for our daughter, we didn’t pay a grand. She loves her phone.
But I have to confess, the only reason that we got it was because of the deal and her old phone was cracked and damaged.
Who doesn’t want to buy a phone from a company caught red handed disabling perfectly good older phones?
We all now have Androids since my daughter got rid of her Apple phone. She said they were just crap, and some of her friends at school are now getting rid of Apple.
Why is anyone on this site paying attention to Anything CNN says?
This is what irritates me about Apple. I have been an Apple person since my first computer, but I have become increasingly disenchanted with them. Making the older phones run slower is disgusting. Even if this was done (as they claim) to preserve the life of aging batteries, they had the ethical obligation to let consumers know what the ‘update’ would do. Seems to me they do many things like this, including incorporating a a different charger configuration into every new laptop - so the older chargers won't work with them.
If you you really want iPhone and need a new one the best deal is the iPhone SE. They are much less in price and work fine. Beats paying a grand for a phone.
No cell phone manufacturer wants to say it publicly, but we may have already reached “Peak iphone Marketability”.
There will always be techies and collectors who want the latest model, but just maybe the majority of consumers don’t see any reason to keep changing phones year after year.
Perhaps most their needs have already been met. A scary thought indeed for Big Phone. Apple should not worry. They already have their billions, and can diversify into other projects at will. At very least, maybe wait a few years before releasing the next ‘updated’ model.
My I-Phone 6 works fine. Maybe I have not yet installed the newer update. I will not use facial recognition for turning on a newer phone. Thus, I will be going to a non-apple phone eventually.
The same applies on the Android side, too. There’s not much really Samsung, LG, Lenovo (Motorola), HTC and Huawei can do to improve their phones, except maybe embed the fingerprint reader into the touchscreen itself.
I traded in my 6 for an 8. Didn’t want the X. Except for the face rec &telephoto, the 8 has all the same internals as the X.
I’m happy with the 8. We’ll see what happens three years hence.
I always thought Iphone X was RACIST.
We have Android phones. Motorola Moto Z-play. $410. Does everything we need including fingerprint recognition. Even $410 is too much.
Get it right.
The “caught red handed disabling perfectly good older phones” was a legitimate attempt to prolong the life & usability of degraded batteries. Which would you rather have: a phone that runs at full speed but depletes the battery quickly and dies, or a phone that functions as long as possible but at less than full speed?
The new iPhone X design makes the same mistake as New Coke.
The iPhones were always visually distinct, because of the Home Button, which was Apple’s proprietary design. The Home Button reflects the single button mouse, that has been unique part of Apple design since the 1970s.
But with the iPhone X, Apple threw all that away to make a phone that looks just like an Android phone.
If my iPhone is going to look just like a Samsung Galaxy phone, I am much more likely to compare the two on the basis of features, performance and price.
This is like Coke throwing out their successful formula to make a drink that tastes just like Pepsi. This is a monumental blunder.
Paid $249 for my LG G5 (new) a few months ago at Best Buy. Seems to be everything I could possibly want in a phone and more, though I’m sure that owners of $700-$1,000 iphones can explain all the ways that their phones are better than mine. However, if you need a new smartphone and want to be smart with your money, the name is the game is “last year’s” Android.
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Litium batteries primarily degrade after a large number of recharges.
Apple pulled this crap even on people who travel and turn their phone off at night, only charging the phones when necessary. Their phones are just fine.
Next time you want to spout some bullshit prevarication don’t try it on an old bench tech who has worked with electronics since the seventies. You thought you could pist to someone uneducated enough not to unmask Apple’s lie. You’re busted.
“No way paying a grand for a cell phone.
I’d bet most are sold under the payment/automatic upgrade plan Apple offers.
This is a different business model than just offering a new model for sale and puts a nice fence around their herd. They profit continually and have iCLOUD, itunes music, books, videos, and the App Store to continually milk the herd.
The Android model is to sell cheap by using your harvested privacy to sell to others.
Choices! They make the world go round.
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