Posted on 01/14/2013 6:02:13 AM PST by jimbo123
Reports say iPhone 5 demand is now half of planned figures. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is said to have slashed component orders. The pre-market stock price is falling fast, heading below $500.
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I had an iphone 4 and wanted to upgrade to the 5. I stayed on my Verizon plan, purchased the iphone 3 and sold the 4 for approximately what I paid for the 5.
You’re right.
1. iPhone 5 is not enough of a step up from iPhone 4 to make it desirable.
2. Phone company upgrade deals are on the 24 month contract schedule, making a 12 month new technology cycle self defeating.
3. Those of us in the boonies don’t get a signal strong enough to justify a large wireless expenditure every 12-18 months. If we don’t spend much time in town, it’s hard to justify anything more complex than a phone that’s just a phone.
i believe ya, but i just have literally never personally heard of it happening. and i agree with whoever said that the customer service has been fantastic with Apple. My husband rants and raves about Apple, hates it, says it’s communist etc. He’s the only one in the family without an iphone, but every time you turn around he’s got some issue with his android and having to run to Verizon to have it straightened out. The iphones [knock wood] have never had a problem. i have the ipad3, there was a problem with the button, i took it in, she said it obviously was a defect and gave me a new one on the spot, after transferring all of my apps and data to it.
oh and my husband? he can frequently be seen using the ipad2 which belongs to my daughter. we roll our eyes at his Apple rants LOL!
I have a typewriter- it’s probably from the 50s or 60s, belonged to my dad so I cherish it.
I wrote several novels on it back when I could find ribbons and it was the best thing for creativity. Now I use it strictly for poetry.
As for pens I still keep one and a pad of paper with me on my night table and in my pocketbook should I get an inspiration.
I think it is what ever floats your boat. What ever makes you creative, gets the job done especially if you work for yourself.
Unless you want LTE, right?
Apple could given them away and still make tons of money. There is big money in the apple App Store business model.
Yes ... I've heard that before. Not sure I understand it, but the phenomenon is real.
Now, as for me ... I miss two things in particular from the "good(?) old days": the keyboard on the DEC VT100 terminal, and the amber CRT on ... I can't recall now. But it was very easy on the eyes. The green CRT on the DEC VT220 was very nice; a close second. The VT220 keyboard, however, stank on ice.
All my family and kids have been using iPhones for many years (I had the second iPhone back in the day). They’ve been abused, dropped in parking lots, hardwood floors, backpacks...never a screen break. My daughter and son-in-law both bought Samsungs in the last couple of years...3 shattered screens among them...going back to Iphone next..
A few things I learned...
1) Have the iPhone 5 standing horizontal, not vertical, so the video is not narrow top to bottom.
2) Do not have the camera setting HDR on or your timelapse won’t have good focus.
3) Even though it is a test, spend some time to clean the window. psss!
Um.... You know the answer is to not give a child an expensive phone then?
LOL
“Apple Fanboys are quick to gobble up the new tech, but average people, myself included, don’t want to “upgrade” their gadgets every 12-18 months.”
Not all Apple users are like that.
I just retired my old PowerMac g4 for a 2012 Mac Mini. I bought the g4 tower in 2004, it was nearly 9 years old when I took it “off the table” for its replacement. The Mini cost me 1/2 of what I paid for the g4 in ‘04, and it’s a dandy pint-sized computer.
I’ve never owned an iPod, iPad, or iPhone — no particular need for such devices, although they look snazzy enough. Another reason is I dislike the way Apple “locks you in” to their apps and organizational paradigms (for example, you can’t manage content on an iPod Touch without using iTunes, which forces you to import/organize your music as they decree).
I own a cellphone, but it’s a Samsung that is several years’ old, not a smartphone, only something that can be used in emergencies. It’s turned off 100% of the time (except when I absolutely need to use it, of course). I pay $10 every four months to keep it activated (pageplus.com).
I’m guessing the real reason for the slow sales is that most folks who were going to buy an iPhone have bought one, and don’t feel compelled to upgrade yet. Did they think they could keep selling the same people a new phone every year?
The Nokia 920 uses Gorilla Glass. The same glass used on the iPhone.
So.....
Did a quick search on “Nokia 920 glass” and the main thing that appears are comments like “glass shattered”.
So... glass houses, man. :) ha.
Sorry, it is Gorilla Glass 2. It is also rounded on the corners. Check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3c8il_Q6SU
Hubby does the Otterbox thing too. His screen broke inspite of that. In his case it could have been an aging problem, the phone was at LEAST 2 years old. Rather than replace screen he replaced phone.
I purchased two iMacs over the course of three years. The first one had so many problems we took a huge loss on it and traded it in at a computer store for used PC. After harrasment by the wife who was sucked in by the commercials showing all the cool stuff you could do with pictures we bought a second. Less the four month later it reformatted itself and deleted all her picts including some of special interest to her. That unit has now been converted into PC with a new hard drive and Windows 7. Its pretty, but it doesn’t like being a real computer. My stepson is an Apple-phile, but even he admits that two of his three iPhones have had problems with connectivity and dropping calls.
So you can have your expensive over-hyped Apple products, I’ll stick with stuff that works.
Where I am, I won’t see LTE until the end of the decade, if at all.
Perhaps not, but a large portion of the smartphone market is in major urban areas, and the lack of LTE was a major knock on the 4S (though admittedly, even major metro LTE coverage was pretty spotty until shortly before the 5 came out). So for a significant portion of the market, the 5 certainly has a major selling point over the 4S with LTE.
As for myself, I have had my 4S for a year and have no plans on upgrading before my current contract runs out. If I had a 3 or 3GS, or maybe even a 4, out of contract, then I’d probably have gotten the 5. As things look right now, I’ll probably ditch AT&T for a no-subsidy T-Moble plan early next year. I very well may look into getting an LTE-compatible phone then, though I may not want to shell out for the “latest and greatest” model. (That is, if we assume a new model, such as a 5X [for lack of a better name]), by then, I might very well just get the 5 if I can find it cheap enough.)
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