[markomalley]

Full headline: "KGI: Apple to Discontinue iPhone X Rather Than Sell at Lower Price When Second-Generation Model Launches"

This kind of crap is the principal reason why I don't mess with Apple products.

I wonder how heavily Limbaugh will market the new, cheaper phone?

[fuente]

Sounds like the Apple is rotten and the aura is collapsing.

[Red Badger]

Ping!.......................

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

So much for the Apple Resale value index.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Smart biz model.

[bgill]

Good grief, that’s a mortgage payment. Who needs a new phone every time there’s a new model? I’m happy with my old flip phone that does nothing but make phone calls.

After Apple refused to cooperate with the police with a account opened by a thief using my credit card, I have no use for them. Truthfully, didn’t care for them before the incident.

[WeWaWes]

I’m not so sure about this. I’ll wait for another source or a news release from Apple.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yeah...that marketing tactic just pisses me off. I’m REALLY ticked that Ford isn’t still making the 2016 F-150 and selling it at a reduced price. The NERVE of them to discontinue last year’s model so they can sell this year’s model at a higher price!

That’s the reason I don’t buy ANY new appliances, cameras, cars, trucks, stereo equipment, flat screen TVs or clothes.

Nothing but a bunch of greedy capitalists, I tell you!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks markomalley. I'm a flip phone user, but thanks to the way life just grinds me down, grinds me down, I'll have a feature phone (nice and cheap one) before midyear (this year for sure). I just want to be able to make and take calls, take pics, and upload them to FB and/or email via wifi. It's a phone, it's not an alternative lifestyle.

Tim Cook got his bonuses last month, and enjoyed a 74 percent increase over 2016 -- yeah, that really sounds like the iPhone X has been a miserable failure.

And although it is making the rounds again, as it was a few months back, Apple didn't have its suppliers cut 40 percent of production on the X -- there are two models of iPhone 8, along with a few each of the 6 and 7 (plus I think they still make the SE), any production cuts (and remember, 74 percent increase in Cook's bonus) are likely in the older models, and also likely to be a shift from stuff that is being discontinued into models which are not.

There's a rumor that iPhone 6+ owners will get a free upgrade to iPhone 6s+, probably Apple's way of addressing the battery/software contro.

Apple's finally gotten serious about the India market, and is building the iPhone 6 (I think) in Banglalore.

Earnings come out after market close on the 1st -- expect plenty of fake news before then, as the big wheeler dealers try to get the stock at a lower price.

[usconservative]

It's not that I don't like iPhones, I just don't like Apple's planned obsolescence model and the last battery / performance fiasco was a major turn-off for people like me.

And honestly, cheapskate that I am, I just don't want to pay that much for a phone. Doesn't matter if it's an iOS based phone or a Droid based phone, I'm just not spending that much for something I use to text with, perform the occasional mobile search with and make an occasional phone call.

? Would I use the heck out of an iPhone if one was given to me? Sure. Pay for one? Nuh uh. (Same for a Samsung Galaxy 8 btw ..... won't pay for one of those either.)

[Mr. Jeeves]

I like the current iPhone X - 6.1" would be too big for me. But I don't try to do all my work on the phone, like some people do.

The current iPhone X is solid and works great, so I'll probably keep it until the battery dies at the pre-planned 2.7 year mark. :)

[GOPJ]

What does it cost them to manufacture the thing? Twenty bucks?