I hope people hurry up and buy them. I have an iPhone 6 and soon they'll slow down my iOS unless they sell enough new phones!
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#12I'm on a 7, and it's nearly no improvement over my 6 (The only feature noticable is the better water sealing). Not looking to upgrade any time soon.
And unlike previous generations my last phone is still so good that after a battery change it will be a parent/sibling phone for 2 more years without problem. That means that they are less likely to get a new one too. They can drop their iPhone4S and take my iPhone6, instead of going to the store to get a 7/8.
I think this is great, and not surprising. There is a point when perf and features give diminishing returns and we are there. Good!
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#13While this may be true, i’m very sceptical about what analysts say regarding apple...
I don't pay much attention to this sort of thing in general, but with how often they're wrong about Apple, it makes me wonder if they're that inaccurate about everything else too
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#14I hope people hurry up and buy them. I have an iPhone 6 and soon they'll slow down my iOS unless they sell enough new phones!
That isn't true at all.
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#15The smaller screen width was a deal breaker for be. I'll wait for the next iteration which purportedly will have a larger screen.
I hadn't really thought about it but I suppose the current width is why I'm so comfortable typing on it coming from an iPhone 7. If I'd had the Plus, it might have felt like kind of a downgrade.
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#16If this is true, it makes sense to me: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/10/18/apple-isnt-selling-as-man... . The most impressive one is too expensive; the others aren't worth the upgrade.
> The most impressive one is too expensive; the others aren't worth the upgrade.
Perfectly summarizes what Apple has been producing lately, and this isn't just exclusive to their phones. I wonder when they'll make something worth buying?
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#17> according to a survey of 300 iPhone buyers by technology-analysis firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners
Is 300 the right sample size? I recall reading that Apple sells over 500 iPhones every minute (on average), so I wonder if such a small sample is appropriate here.
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#18The problem with the iPhone X is its only selling point is the huge screen. It looks cool, perhaps. But it doesn't really bring anything new or useful to the design, and requires so many compromises: the (less secure and less convenient) Face ID instead of Touch ID, no home button, all the basic OS functionality having completely different gestures or button sequences than before, the notch at the top covering the screen, reduced status bar size…
It's the epitome of form over function.
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#19> according to a survey of 300 iPhone buyers by technology-analysis firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners Is 300 the right sample size? I recall reading that Apple sells over 500 iPhones every minute (on average), so I wonder if such a small sample is appropriate here.
It really depends on the sampling characteristics and the observed population distribution. If iPhone buyers are very consistent and follow a normal distribution, it could be ok.
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#20that being said, the article is comparing it to 2015 which I think was consider an usually high outlier peak given the intro of the 6 and the large screen models
It seems so. This graph gives a nice overview of worldwide iPhone sales over the year:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...
Sales are still great, but the growth has become stagnant.