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| iPhone 5 sales hit five million in opening weekend |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-24 16:15:12 |
| "Apple today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone 5, just three days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system." The last claim is debatable, but the figures are not - very impressive. Of course, do note that the iPhone 5 was available in more countries than the 4S in its first weekend, and if you take that into account, the iPhone 5 didn't do any better than the 4S at all (which doesn't negate the incredible sales - it just highlights the smartphone market's growth might be slowing). It's also lower than what analysts expected, but they're just monkeys throwing darts at figures anyway. |
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| Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-24 17:51:21 |
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I guess what is most interesting is if they are new iPhone users or upgrading from an older model. A number of iPhone 3GS owners I know are still happy with their device. The iPhone 4 and 4S are obviously still fine phones. I can't imagine large numbers of 4S users buying a 5. My tactic would be to hold out as long as possible and then go for the latest edition. |
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| RE: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By majipoor on 2012-09-24 18:02:18 |
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"50% Of iPhone 5 Buyers In New York Upgrading From iPhone 4S" http://www.businessinsider.com/i... |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By saso on 2012-09-24 19:08:09 |
| In other words, about 50% of iPhone 5 users would buy just about anything as long as it has a picture of a fruit on it. |
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| I'd like to see a switch matrix...... |
| By PieterGen on 2012-09-24 19:43:08 |
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Would there be something like a 'switch matrix'? Just like with elections: "x% of persons who voted for party X last time, have now voted for party Y" So that we know what current say Android users upgrade to (Android, iOS, WP, RIM, Other, Dumbphone) and what clients that buy an iPhone5 used before (older iPhone; Android, WP, RIM, Other, Dumbphone, none - that is, new in the phone market). (ps, yes I know I mixed up OSes and phones) |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Bill Shooter of Bul on 2012-09-24 20:40:42 |
| No, 50% of the early iphone 5 buyers in new york would buy any new high end apple phone. It kind of makes sense that the most ardent of fans woudl buy the phone as soon as it was available regardless of the existing phone they have. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By WorknMan on 2012-09-24 23:15:03 |
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[quote]In other words, about 50% of iPhone 5 users would buy just about anything as long as it has a picture of a fruit on it.[/quote] If I were an iPhone user, I probably would've bought one too, since it has LTE. That is a pretty significant jump in speed over HSPA (depending on where you are, of course). On Verizon LTE, I can get 15-20 mbps. On AT&T HSPA, 4mbps if I'm lucky. |
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| basically a disaster |
| By unclefester on 2012-09-25 03:23:06 |
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Considering at 8-10 million units were expected to be sold 5 million is an unmitigated disater. I also saw a few very frustrated and angry iPhone 5 buyers lined up at an inner city Optus shop last night. |
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| Apple lost me |
| By zhulien on 2012-09-25 03:37:18 |
| i have an iphone 3g, an htc desire hd and a blackberry bold 9700. I prefer the blackberry for chatting and phone and use that every day. I use the htc desire hd for browsing in bed and some of it's useful utilities and the iphone 3g for the odd game. After having used an iphone 3g and played my girlfriends iphone 4 and ipad 2 - there is no way i'd want to buy an iphone 5. Why so few files in a folder? Why do i have to do every file operation 1 file at a time? Why does the facebook and ebay apps suck? Why cant I use google maps on iphone 5? Apple lost me. |
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| RE[4]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By JAlexoid on 2012-09-25 07:36:38 |
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And you care about 4 vs 20 mbps on your phone... why? LTE is not used for voice, BTW, only data. |
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| Other factors are involved |
| By wocowboy on 2012-09-25 07:42:37 |
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I've never seen such an effort at making a simple statistical announcement seem to be evil or incorrect, but that's just what people do when a product they don't like is successful. Whatever. The whole Google Maps subject is getting tired, though. Microsoft has cut a deal to use Nokia maps on all future Windows Phone 8 devices, where is the outrage about that? Apple's Maps app is not perfect, granted, but it is an initial effort and there are plenty of other apps that provide the same service, so it's not like users are completely out of luck. It is wise to remember some of the reasoning behind Apple's decision to ditch the Google Maps app. This is a good read about the major decision: http://www.padgadget.com/2012/06... When faceed with a huge increase in the Google mapping api cost, Apple made the decision to dump Google in favor of their own app that uses open sourced mapping data along with many other sources, something you would think would be lauded by all the open-source geeks on OS News, but no, they are all up in arms about it, moaning about proprietary software being so much better. Very interesting. Edited 2012-09-25 07:45 UTC |
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