iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
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#2Up 66% percent, roughly the same rate that the entire market is growing. It's almost uncanny how the iPhone manages to maintain its near-constant share of this rapidly growing market.
A visual chart of this phenomenon:
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2011/...
Re: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
#3Up 66% percent, roughly the same rate that the entire market is growing. It's almost uncanny how the iPhone manages to maintain its near-constant share of this rapidly growing market. A visual chart of this phenomenon: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2011/...
What's more amazing is that Apple does this with one phone. Whereas Android and BlackBerry are split across many, many devices and/or manufacturers.
Re: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
#4Up 66% percent, roughly the same rate that the entire market is growing. It's almost uncanny how the iPhone manages to maintain its near-constant share of this rapidly growing market. A visual chart of this phenomenon: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2011/...
What's more amazing is that Apple does this with one phone. Whereas Android and BlackBerry are split across many, many devices and/or manufacturers.
>What's more amazing is that Apple does this with one phone.
I think that's part of how Apple do it. Focus.
Re: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
#5Good for Apple. I'm happy that internet 'gurus' and Wall St are proven wrong again when saying that the 4S was a disappointing product...
Re: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
#6Good for Apple. I'm happy that internet 'gurus' and Wall St are proven wrong again when saying that the 4S was a disappointing product...
They haven't necessarily been proven wrong. Firstly, disappointing is subjective, not objective, so the people who were disappointed might not be the ones ordering it, and neither of those choices is right or wrong.
But more importantly, when the Blackberry 9000 was released I was disappointed with it, I'd hoped for more. I still got my pre-order in, because I wanted to upgrade and it was better than the phone I had at that time. And I have friends now who say they are disappointed with the 4S, but they are still upgrading from their 3/3S/4, just because it's still better and they've had their current phone for a while.
Re: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
#7Good for Apple. I'm happy that internet 'gurus' and Wall St are proven wrong again when saying that the 4S was a disappointing product...
It just means that the 16 GB iPhone 4S is worth $100 more to people than the 8 GB iPhone. Since I assume most people buying one are coming from the 3GS after their 2 year contract is up. The 4S is certainly not going to get iPhone 4 users to upgrade early for an extra couple hundred bucks.
Re: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
#8Good for Apple. I'm happy that internet 'gurus' and Wall St are proven wrong again when saying that the 4S was a disappointing product...
I think we can't judge if this product is disappointing or not by the sales number. I am not saying that the 4S is not a good phone, but the sales are obviously heavily influenced by the Steve Jobs death. Many of my friends who weren't considering a new phone are now going to buy it because it is the last iPhone launched with Jobs alive.
Re: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
#9Up 66% percent, roughly the same rate that the entire market is growing. It's almost uncanny how the iPhone manages to maintain its near-constant share of this rapidly growing market. A visual chart of this phenomenon: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2011/...
What's more amazing is that Apple does this with one phone. Whereas Android and BlackBerry are split across many, many devices and/or manufacturers.
I'm not sure if this is pedantic in context but actually Apple have been selling 3 or 4 phones for the last year. (The 3G was still available in some markets after the 4 was introduced just as the 3GS remains now in the US. Whether you count the Verizon iPhone seperately is debatable, but Samsung's American network exclusives seem to be counted that way, even if they share 99% of their make-up, though Apple has unified those now to some degree).
Re: iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Top One Million in First 24 Hours
#10Good for Apple. I'm happy that internet 'gurus' and Wall St are proven wrong again when saying that the 4S was a disappointing product...
It just means that the 16 GB iPhone 4S is worth $100 more to people than the 8 GB iPhone. Since I assume most people buying one are coming from the 3GS after their 2 year contract is up. The 4S is certainly not going to get iPhone 4 users to upgrade early for an extra couple hundred bucks.
I’m not really sure whether that’s Apple’s goal in the first place. Realistically the vast majority of people is not going to buy a new phone every year. Apple is not selling the iPhone to a handful crazy devotees, those are (at least by now) clearly a tiny minority. Consequently it doesn’t seem wise to optimize everything for one-year upgrade cycles.