Apple reduces orders of iPhone 5 components...

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kidspud

17-01-2013

Originally Posted by Stuart_h:
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Kidspud I can cope with as he seems to occasionally have valid points and at least puts his thoughts down with some finesse. ...”

Cheek

TH14

17-01-2013

No surprise really. It's not a great advance on the 4S and left a lot of people disappointed by the lack of innovation. I have a 5 and I find the battery is worse than it was on the 4 and also it randomly plays up and has now decided not to recognise my home wifi

I never had a single problem with my old iPhone 4. I think Apple really are losing it

tdenson

17-01-2013

Originally Posted by TH14:
“ it randomly plays up and has now decided not to recognise my home wifi I never had a single problem with my old iPhone 4. I think Apple really are losing it”

You can't really take a sample of one. By the same token I used to have exactly that problem with my 4S but I don't get it with the 5, but I put it down to changes in IOS.

Stiggles

17-01-2013

Originally Posted by Hugh_:
“Apple will regain market share by taking some of company's like Samsungs budget market. Apple will release sub £250 phones and people will buy them. Virtually everyone has an iPod , a iPhone for he same price as a iPod touch will fly of the shelves.

Will it effect iPod sales? Probably but it's worth to get budget users from Andriod.”

I'm going to get lynched for this but, what could apple do to possibly make a budget phone? Apart from the aluminium shell, the phone is fairly budget tech wise anyway.

Hugh_

17-01-2013

Originally Posted by Stiggles:
“I'm going to get lynched for this but, what could apple do to possibly make a budget phone? Apart from the aluminium shell, the phone is fairly budget tech wise anyway.”

You would have to ask Apple development team the specifics but I'm sure we will see a less expensive iPhone at some point.

Anika Hanson

18-01-2013

Apple's predicted sales for Q1.
Apple Stock Watch: Analyst Sets Q1 iPhone Sales at 48M, iPad at 20M http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/artic...8m-ipad-at-20m

Hugh_

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by Anika Hanson:
“Apple's predicted sales for Q1.
Apple Stock Watch: Analyst Sets Q1 iPhone Sales at 48M, iPad at 20M http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/artic...8m-ipad-at-20m”

Those are pretty healthy numbers but again we won't know for sure until apple release the figures.

I do wonder what numbers would be considered successful an more importantly what figures would be considered an unsuccessful quarter for apple an the iPhone 5.

alan1302

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by Hugh_:
“Is Samsung a budget brand? Well ok maybe not like bush but definately below Sony and Apple”

Samsung are a very good example of a bang in the middle mainstream company which has a bit of everything - not a discount company, that's for sure. Not quite premium in the other direction though.

Probably best comparison I can think of would be the car company Ford.

Hugh_

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by alan1302:
“Samsung are a very good example of a bang in the middle mainstream company which has a bit of everything - not a discount company, that's for sure. Not quite premium in the other direction though.

Probably best comparison I can think of would be the car company Ford.”

Yes I would 100% agree with that, an there is nothing wrong with a ford. They sell millions a year after all.

swordman

18-01-2013

Sold I will have one of these premium phones over middling samsung .. where are they?

alan1302

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by swordman:
“Sold I will have one of these premium phones over middling samsung .. where are they?”

Shops

swordman

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by alan1302:
“Shops”

Must be just me then not seen any in any shop I've been in ... odd

alan1302

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by swordman:
“Must be just me then not seen any in any shop I've been in ... odd”

You've been in wrong shops then

swordman

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by alan1302:
“You've been in wrong shops then”

Must have very odd but there you go

Anika Hanson

18-01-2013

Some of samsungs stuff can be expensive. Some of their tvs are almost if not the same price as their Sony counterparts.

alan1302

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by Anika Hanson:
“Some of samsungs stuff can be expensive. Some of their tvs are almost if not the same price as their Sony counterparts.”

Sony aren't really a proper premium brand either - they are at the top end of the mainstream brands but not a proper premium brand - think of someone like Bang & Olufsen

Everything Goes

18-01-2013

Originally Posted by alan1302:
“Sony aren't really a proper premium brand either - they are at the top end of the mainstream brands but not a proper premium brand - think of someone like Bang & Olufsen”

Several years ago I was in an electrical shop looking at VCRs and I was chatting to a salesman about a Phillips and a Bang & Olufsen they looked exactly the same but had rather different price tags. The salesman confirmed they were in fact the same inside just with a different brand name

Sometime you just pay for a brand name

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