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Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend

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Re: Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend

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Post by coldtea »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #124
coldtea wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You intend this to be ironic, but a proper perspective would be that: 1) 10 years ago this was way bulkier, far less convenient and more often than not without an intertube connection, 2) 20 years ago this was absolute bare-bones and only for upper middle class and rich people, 3) 30 years ago it was science fiction. Now, a 20-something would of course take all this for granted. But technology will have some surprise…

Not sure about bulkier 10 years ago, the nokia 8310 was all the rage back then and they were so tiny that people used to lose them down cracks in sofas. Not to mention better battery.

Sure, but that was a barebones model. I had the equivalent of today's iPhone style things (a Sony-Ericsson P910 IIRC), and it was like 3 iPhones in bulk.

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Post by mikeash »

alayne wrote: post #117
mikeash wrote: post #111

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Personally, my rush was that I needed a device with an A7 in it for testing purposes. If it wasn't for that, I'd be right there with you and would have just ordered online and waited.

That makes sense. I'm hoping the 64 bit simulator is good enough for now.

It will be for almost everybody, as long as you have someone somewhere with a 5S to use for a sanity check before you ship.

In my case, there was some code dealing with low-level stack walking and such that really needed the actual hardware in hand. Not a common case, to be sure.

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Post by jsz0 »

Nux wrote: post #28

There you go, more proof that most people don't give a shit about surveillance, privacy and the lot. Here it is, the one device that can create the biggest fingerprint database in the world sold 9 million units in a couple of days. NSA must be jubilating. Very "forward thinking" indeed.

I don't think the weird zealous paranoia does much to change their minds. If anything it might motivate 'normal people' to steer clear of questioning privacy issues.

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Post by adamlett »

yalogin wrote: post #20

Nothing moves the stock like a successful product. I am glad they did not bow to market pressure and announce more dividends or stock buybacks. Stock buybacks are just dead money. They should instead use that money on their business and not to satisfy investors over the short term.

> Stock buybacks are just dead money

That is an oversimplification. Apple has more money than it could possibly hope to reinvest in its core business. When that is the case, and when the stock is undervalued as is the case with Apple, stock buybacks are a great use of a company's cash.

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Post by ChikkaChiChi »

tedunangst wrote: post #82
ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #63

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Weird. I just travelled from Minneapolis, to Atlanta, and back again and I'm all but certain I did not actually touch ANYTHING in any airport.

You didn't have to take off your shoes and put them through the DNA extraction device disguised as an x-ray machine?

Funny, except for the fact that I managed to look angry enough about the whole process that I did get a pat down.

I still get a kick out the the XKCD battery comic...

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Post by quarterto »

panacea wrote: post #109
bane wrote: post #84

So I had a few separate experiences with this over the weekend: 1) A friend stood in line for a few hours, got to the front, found out they didn't have the color he wanted and left. 2) A colleague in another company got one and she immediately remarked, "it looks just like Android!". 3) A neighbor returned theirs because they couldn't read all the low contrast stuff on the tiny screen. 4) Another neighbor has kept th…

1) A friend stood in line for a few hours, got to the front, found out they didn't have the color he wanted and left. – At the Apple store I was at, Apple staff greeted people entering the queue, asked them what they intended to purchase and gave them a card (reservation) 2) A colleague in another company got one and she immediately remarked, "it looks just like Android!". – You overheard a conversation in another co…

Wow do I wish I could downvote this more times. Stop being a douche.

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Post by coldtea »

bane wrote: post #114
bilbo0s wrote: post #93

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Wow... were there really that many people out buying iPhones this weekend? How does Apple keep doing that?

What's more interesting is why do people do that just with Apple phones? Samsung seems to get their phones out and about without the same kind of theater and is matching Apple sale for sale these days. It's like people waiting in line to see the latest Star Wars film, but a crappy movie about Blue Forest Indians riding Dragons outsells it.

>It's like people waiting in line to see the latest Star Wars film, but a crappy movie about Blue Forest Indians riding Dragons outsells it.

Samsung phones are "Star Wars" and the iPhone is "a crappy movie about Blue Forest Indians riding Dragons"?

That surely puts your "overheard at my company/neighbor's trailer" BS in perspective.

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Post by mikeash »

ctdonath wrote: post #123
mikeash wrote: post #70

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Purely anecdotally, a ton of the people in my line wanted gold, but only the first ten people actually got one. It seems plenty popular here too. It will be interesting if we ever get a color breakdown to see if this "gold is for Asian countries" thing actually holds up, or if it's just another instance of bizarre cultural misunderstanding.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430779 seems they did send most of the gold phones to Asia, and all sold out first day. Still may be a bizarre cultural misunderstanding, as sounds like it's crazy popular everywhere else too. Expect every smartphone maker make & push gold phones hard after today. ETA: Note "seems". That's my impression from the link, no hard data seen yet.

I can't find anything in that link that indicates most gold phones went to Asia. Did I miss it?
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