This is not a success by the expectations and hype created.
Analysts projected 10Million sales and worst case scenario of 6Million sales before launch:
http://articles.cnn.com/2012-09-19/tech/tech_mobile_iphone-5...
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#12"the world’s most advanced mobile operating system" I feel this needs to be quantified.
How is it more "advanced" than the latest version of Android?
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#13This is not a success by the expectations and hype created. Analysts projected 10Million sales and worst case scenario of 6Million sales before launch: http://articles.cnn.com/2012-09-19/tech/tech_mobile_iphone-5...
So maybe the analysts underperformed.
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#14"the world’s most advanced mobile operating system" I feel this needs to be quantified. How is it more "advanced" than the latest version of Android?
Or even what defines a mobile operating system. Curiosity is technically mobile and has an operating system...
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#15Turns out people just wanted a more refined iPhone with 4G. Who would have thought? Seriously though, I remember naysayers about the iPod back when it was first released, bemoaning the interface, design, and pointing out dozens of other mp3 players with longer feature lists at better prices. Yet the iPod still won out because it offered a consistent and predictable user experience, from the purchase to the day-to-day…
I think iTunes was probably the bigger motivator for customers purchasing iPods. Before iTunes, there weren't a lot of places to legally purchase digital music, and ripping CDs was kind of cumbersome.
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#16This is not a success by the expectations and hype created. Analysts projected 10Million sales and worst case scenario of 6Million sales before launch: http://articles.cnn.com/2012-09-19/tech/tech_mobile_iphone-5...
Sales were limited by supply at least in many places although some carriers at least had some stock in particular models.
The only real way to judge the sales success is when supply matches demand
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#17"the world’s most advanced mobile operating system" I feel this needs to be quantified. How is it more "advanced" than the latest version of Android?
Perfect scrolling, your applications can't spy on you, iTunes integration, and you don't constantly need to play whack-an-app to preserve battery life.
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#18No mention of Apple maps? Hmm ...
Yeah, because what we really need at this point is yet another "LOL APPLE MAPS RITE?" "I NO RITE" "SRSLY GUISE HAVE U HERD ABOUT APPLE MAPS" thread.
In my opinion, it seems quite ridiculous to gloss over such a major failing, with so much optimistic hyperbole.
Why isn't there a press release apologising to the people who've updated 'more than 100 million devices' to iOS 6?
EDIT: It is a major failing.. To understand why, I suggest you search Google, and see just how vocal that '1%' (!) is. Remember, a lot of people don't live in the USA - and many of those who do are still experiencing problems.
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#1920% more than the iPhone 4S managed. (iPhone 3GS: 1,000,000 orders, iPhone 4: 1.7 million, 4S: 4,000,000 sales (all first 3 days after release)) After filtering out the inevitable Apple PR hyperbole, I can't work out whether this is good (largest iPhone numbers ever in 3 days after release!) or bad (terrible fall off in growth rate of 3-day iPhone sales after release!). Take your pick :)
Normalised by the number of countries it was available in, it didn't do any better than the 4S (from @asymco). http://twitpic.com/axx0ki
That's not a fair comparison. Its only fair if pre-orders are uniform across countries. Adding a bunch of smaller countries with low volume would drag the number way down.
A much more meaningful comparison would be pre-orders in a single major market, e.g. the US.
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#20"the world’s most advanced mobile operating system" I feel this needs to be quantified. How is it more "advanced" than the latest version of Android?
Perfect scrolling, your applications can't spy on you, iTunes integration, and you don't constantly need to play whack-an-app to preserve battery life.
How do they manage the "applications can't spy on you" part? (Not counting the WhatsApp debacle).
Also: iTunes???