I had 5 with no internet and Mini for only internet - just because the screen was huge (but not great). Everyone kept saying the Plus is huge, but it feels a little small still. Bring on 6++!!
Everyone kept saying the Plus is huge, but it feels a little small still. Bring on 6++!!
It's huge for a phone but tiny for a tablet:
It's no good as an ebook reader or for typing on. iPads are laptop replacements, iPhones aren't.
iPads are also cheaper off-contract. Off-contract iPhone 6 Plus is $749, iPad mini Retina is $299.
The iPad mini makes up about half their iPad sales so dropping it would just drop their iPad sales volume further.
The 6 Plus is just part of a phad that will pass in time. The 6 outsells it by about 4:1. If you look at the average selling price from the last quarter earnings, $51.1b between 74.5m units = $686 ASP (iPhone 6 = $649, 6 Plus = $749). The only way you can reach that average is if the iPhone 6 sells 4 units for every 1 unit the iPhone 6 sells and it's weighted more towards China so in the US and Europe, it's a smaller amount. Phadlets in Europe and the US sell about 1/3 the amount in Asia:
"According to Juniper Research, phablet sales (which it defines as having a screen of between 5.6in and 6.9in measured diagonally) will hit 120m annually in 2018, compared to just 20m this year.
Around half of those - 60m - will be bought in the Far East and China, the company forecasts, while about 20m will be sold in North America and 20m in Europe, it forecasts."
...$686 ASP (iPhone 6 = $649, 6 Plus = $749). The only way you can reach that average is if the iPhone 6 sells 4 units for every 1 unit the iPhone 6 sells and it's weighted more towards China so in the US...
How do you figure that when you didn't account for the range of $649 to $849 and $749 to $949 for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, respectively, or the older iPhone models still being sold at much lower prices?
...$686 ASP (iPhone 6 = $649, 6 Plus = $749). The only way you can reach that average is if the iPhone 6 sells 4 units for every 1 unit the iPhone 6 sells and it's weighted more towards China so in the US...
How do you figure that when you didn't account for the range of $649 to $849 and $749 to $949 for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, respectively, or the older iPhone models still being sold at much lower prices?
That was best-case for the iPhone 6 Plus. The older models tend to make up a small amount of sales. The 64GB iPhone 6 upgrade ($749) from the 16GB iPhone 6 would have pushed ASP higher too. That would make the ratio closer to 6:1, which when you put it in perspective of 74.5m iPhones, remove about 1/5th for low-end ones leaving 60m and 21.4m iPads where 50% are iPad minis, you get iPhone 6 Plus at 8.6m units and iPad mini at 10.7m units. So even with a weak update, the iPad mini outsells the iPhone 6 Plus at its debut.
...you get iPhone 6 Plus at 8.6m units and iPad mini at 10.7m units. So even with a weak update, the iPad mini outsells the iPhone 6 Plus at its debut.
I think that's a reasonable assumption. I know many use an iPad as their main device so the 6 Plus wasn't a huge need for them, and I know others that wanted a larger iPhone but coming from the 4" (or smaller) to a 4.7" was a big enough jump this time around. I wasn't sure the 6 Plus was going to be right for me, but it passed my pocket test (the curved edges helped) and I was able to get rid of my iPad mini, which I rarely used yet didn't want to be without.
I suspect that this quarter the 6 Plus will do much better.
I know the reason iOS users use more data than Android users is because iOS users use their phones far more often per day than Android users. This is also why so many Android users have batteries that can go days without a change but very few iPhone users can. It's not that the iPhone has that much worse of a battery than Android phones, it's just Android phones aren't used near as much so it seems like Android phones have a lot better battery but truth is even an iPhone 4s running iOS 8 can last a few days without need a charge if it's only used a couple hours a day with mild usage. My iPhone 6 Plus I can't even get 8 consecutive hours of it it and it's supposed to last up to 24 hours. But this is because I'm using my phone non stop. I'm either on the phone, texting, or playing a game on it so of course my battery won't last. On my iPhone 5, I was lucky to get 4 hours a day with the same kinda usage. 4-6 on my iPhone 5, 6-8 on my iPhone 6 Plus.
As for the reasoning iPhone 6 Plus users use more data than iPhone 6 users this comes down to streaming and gaming. iPhone 6 Plus users have a bigger screen and are gonna take advantage of it whenever possible. You're far more engaged watching movies and playing games on a larger screen than you are on a smaller screen thus you're gonna use the larger screen more often for games and movies than you will on a smaller screen.
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No wonder VirginMobile USA refuses to stock the iPhone 6...
Everyone kept saying the Plus is huge, but it feels a little small still. Bring on 6++!!
It's huge for a phone but tiny for a tablet:
It's no good as an ebook reader or for typing on. iPads are laptop replacements, iPhones aren't.
iPads are also cheaper off-contract. Off-contract iPhone 6 Plus is $749, iPad mini Retina is $299.
The iPad mini makes up about half their iPad sales so dropping it would just drop their iPad sales volume further.
The 6 Plus is just part of a phad that will pass in time. The 6 outsells it by about 4:1. If you look at the average selling price from the last quarter earnings, $51.1b between 74.5m units = $686 ASP (iPhone 6 = $649, 6 Plus = $749). The only way you can reach that average is if the iPhone 6 sells 4 units for every 1 unit the iPhone 6 sells and it's weighted more towards China so in the US and Europe, it's a smaller amount. Phadlets in Europe and the US sell about 1/3 the amount in Asia:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/24/phablets-to-make-big-splash-in-asia-but-research-finds-appeal-in-europe-limited
"According to Juniper Research, phablet sales (which it defines as having a screen of between 5.6in and 6.9in measured diagonally) will hit 120m annually in 2018, compared to just 20m this year.
Around half of those - 60m - will be bought in the Far East and China, the company forecasts, while about 20m will be sold in North America and 20m in Europe, it forecasts."
How do you figure that when you didn't account for the range of $649 to $849 and $749 to $949 for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, respectively, or the older iPhone models still being sold at much lower prices?
That was best-case for the iPhone 6 Plus. The older models tend to make up a small amount of sales. The 64GB iPhone 6 upgrade ($749) from the 16GB iPhone 6 would have pushed ASP higher too. That would make the ratio closer to 6:1, which when you put it in perspective of 74.5m iPhones, remove about 1/5th for low-end ones leaving 60m and 21.4m iPads where 50% are iPad minis, you get iPhone 6 Plus at 8.6m units and iPad mini at 10.7m units. So even with a weak update, the iPad mini outsells the iPhone 6 Plus at its debut.
I think that's a reasonable assumption. I know many use an iPad as their main device so the 6 Plus wasn't a huge need for them, and I know others that wanted a larger iPhone but coming from the 4" (or smaller) to a 4.7" was a big enough jump this time around. I wasn't sure the 6 Plus was going to be right for me, but it passed my pocket test (the curved edges helped) and I was able to get rid of my iPad mini, which I rarely used yet didn't want to be without.
I suspect that this quarter the 6 Plus will do much better.
As for the reasoning iPhone 6 Plus users use more data than iPhone 6 users this comes down to streaming and gaming. iPhone 6 Plus users have a bigger screen and are gonna take advantage of it whenever possible. You're far more engaged watching movies and playing games on a larger screen than you are on a smaller screen thus you're gonna use the larger screen more often for games and movies than you will on a smaller screen.