iPhone 5 Sells Five Million Units in First Three Days

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It just keeps getting better folks!

Now with a new iScreen which layers the digitizer in the LCD we have brought to you the thinnest phone yet. Yes that 0.0001 mm sure made such a difference! Also our new iScreen will attempt to predict where you are going to touch the screen and do it for you only at .5% accuracy. We call it, it the iRetinagicalolutionaryovative Screen*.

The new iPhone 5, we know it sucks... but you consumer drones will give us money anyways.

 
[citation][nom]hate machine[/nom]Build Quality? Get your new iPhone 5 Black Slate edition with factory scuffing! If you don't like it you unboxed it wrong!Features? Enjoy new Apple iMaps that send you into one way streets and is missing many popular landmarks, points of interests and roads that were built years ago! Also enjoy your blazing fast speeds with our new iWifi that is so revolutionary and innovative it only lets you use 25% of a wifi connection!Act fast and buy up our new product because mass rioting in China from our slaves... er i mean workers are causing a massive shortage in our parts![/citation]

ALL tech products are manufactured in Chinese factories. Its only because of Apple has the most money that the press goes after them first.

Its user experience that matters most. If Apple wasn't winning on that front they wouldn't have the sales figures that they do. In the free market, success is defined by sales - and BOTH Apple and Samsung are winning that fight vs other makers.
 
[citation][nom]azraa[/nom]I still dont believe this crap.Masses need to be tech educated, a lot.[/citation]
They aren't masses, they are minority, Android phones still outsell Apple by 4 to 1
 
[citation][nom]scannall[/nom]Not everyone wants to live in their moms basement. Not everyone looks at assorted gadgets and appliances as Tinker Toys, nor do they have the interest or the time to fiddle with things.[/citation]
You mean like getting Maps to work properly? Eventually they will be up to date from this decade, but apparently only if sheep iphone users do all the updating for them. Thanks for being an unpaid beta-tester.
 
Here is some free business/marketing education: riots at your factory is bad.
 
Hate machine... i want you in my mouth; you're so awesome! you have a great head on your shoulders i wonder what your other head tastes like!
 
[citation][nom]csf60[/nom]in only three days, 0.7‰ of the world population has an iPhone. Let's see how this ends...[/citation]
Dear iFailAtMath,

world population: 6,973,738,433
iPhone 5 users: 5,000,000, which is 0, 07% of the world population
 
[citation][nom]deadlockedworld[/nom]Or maybe you need to be business/marketing educated. No matter if you like Apple or not, the iphone is one of the leading products in the sector in terms of features, power, battery life, user experience, etc. In terms of build quality and features, its still better than the majority of its competitors. Now, do other companies deserve higher sales for their strong offerings in the sector? - Yes they do. Is it stupid for people to go buy one of the best tech products out there? No it is not.[/citation]

I know you probably wont ever read this, but heres my two cents about it:
I do know marketing, I do understand that Apple has indeed great products, their devices are almost as good as you can get these days, and I do know that the very brand and logo are already appealing to people looking for .. status? whatever, marketing is simple: the uneducated masses dont know what's under the hood.

What I meant was that people needs, as said before, do a little research before spending that much money. Unless they are completely mindless with their fanboyism, its always good for a cerebrate customer to gauge prices and performances. Yes, Apple provides very high end phones, and destroys a lot of their competition in this matter, but what about pricing? The use you will give to a product should shape your budget.

Now, you mentioned battery life, features, proc. power, user experience, etc.
Please tell me, how is the iPhone 5 superior in any of these ways against, lets say, the best android phones out? Comparisons made against the SG S3 revealed that the processor, the ARM A6 (or how the iOS uses it) is underpowered, battery life is waaaay lower (2100mAh on the S3, on the iPhone 5 was not published but the estimate is about 1500mAh), Apple customer service... well I might give you that one, even if it expensive; and user experience (new iPhone5 maps, heard of that? Youtube support on previous versions? horrible). Its just that, just check your facts before speaking about Apple products. Yes they are great, but there are greater options, and curiously, cheaper at the same time.
 
[citation][nom]azraa[/nom]I still dont believe this crap.Masses need to be tech educated, a lot.[/citation]

And you sound like the capable, objective, unbiased person to do it! Apple: top in quality, top in satisfaction consistently in numerous marketing surveys. And "azraa" wonders why people buy the products...
 
[citation][nom]nocteratus[/nom]Not me, I got a SGS3!!![/citation]
lol...good on you for following the google sheep...plastic and cheap components are bad for your eyes, lol
 
[citation][nom]AstroTC[/nom]4.9 million of those sales were from folks getting rid of their 4s =/[/citation]
what's wrong with that?...if people can afford it, then why not?
 
[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]and the cows continue follow in a striaght line into the slaughter house.[/citation]
are you referring to the google cows?
 
[citation][nom]azraa[/nom]I know you probably wont ever read this, but heres my two cents about it:I do know marketing, I do understand that Apple has indeed great products, their devices are almost as good as you can get these days.[/citation]

It's good to see you are at least educated about marketing, so you know that all marketing appeals to status, not just Apple.

The market does do research as well. How else can you explain the majority of handset activations nowadays going to Android? Apple is losing the smartphone battle. So if more people are buying Android, why do people still buy Apple? Product quality, brand loyalty, ratings, etc.

As for pricing, I'm pretty sure that the price we see is set by the telcos. The company that rated the iPhone price quoted $640 retail I think. Every telco I've seen is claiming $800+ for it, on a month to month rental, on contract they subsidize $500. So the true price is unknown, but I did read an industry analyst that claimed the iPhone 5 was $100 less than the flagship competition which, if true cost, would explain some of the more dramatic differences.

As far as the phone - I'm surprised that at first you claimed to know marketing and be educated, but then you cite the smaller battery life rating as inadequate? Please... look to the real world results. You want others to do research, then demonstrate that real world results are all that counts. Apple's battery is smaller, but read the useable battery life tests - they are as good or better than the S3. How? Because it's not all based on battery, the power draw and OS power intelligence factor in as well.

The A6 chip in the iPhone beat the S3 by 50% in SunSpider benchmarks, too. Again, pure technical numbers are not everything. I'll quote from Engadget's iPhone 5 review for you:

"SunSpider scores average at 924ms, [...] quite a bit quicker than the 1,400ms scored by the Galaxy S III and the 1,700ms managed by the HTC One X."


As far as the maps comment... ugh. Youtube support a thing of the past, iOS has had support for years now, and if people are somehow not able to use other map apps on iOS, you are presuming far too little.

So you claim there are greater, cheaper options. Value trumps price, greater is debatable, and your response, while reasoned, left me wanting a bit more honesty and demonstration that you understand that not all that glitters is golden. Still, I appreciate that your response did demonstrate intelligence, so bravo for that, let's keep up the informed debate!
 
[citation][nom]irh_1974[/nom]They aren't masses, they are minority, Android phones still outsell Apple by 4 to 1[/citation]
one day the minority will take over....take a look at the minority in the US, lol....sad but true, now you don't even need to be a us citizen to receive health care
 
[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]Dear iFailAtMath,world population: 6,973,738,433iPhone 5 users: 5,000,000, which is 0, 07% of the world population[/citation]

0.07% is the same as 0.7‰

Just saying 🙂

 
[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]0.07% is the same as 0.7‰Just saying 🙂[/citation]

O t h th
0 . 7
0 . 7 0
0 . 7 0 0

And by that logic 0.7 or 7 tenths is not the same as 0.07 or 7 hundredths of a whole number.

 
[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]0.07% is the same as 0.7‰Just saying 🙂[/citation]
Yes it's the same ... and it's purposely misleading just like when Mr Cook explains that a CPU is 4x faster ... (than what??? at doing what???).
 
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