Another year, another set of reasons not to upgrade from the immediately preceding generation of iPhones, and another year of the completely obvious: People DON'T upgrade every year. Nobody I know does (I had a few rich customers whose hobby it was to always have the newest stuff, but that's it).
Why does Apple change form factors only every other year?
How is this newsworthy? Every single year?
It just shows how short sighted his research note is. Yeah maybe not many 6 owners will upgrade but a large portion of the install base is still using 5/5S or even 4S. They don't need force touch to get them to upgrade. Faster processor, more RAM, better camera will get them to upgrade.
Spoke to an iPhone 5 user over the weekend and he will also be upgrading to a 6s soon enough. That and we have two 4s models that will be going to a 6s 64gb ASAP!!
Many people in the UK buy phones on 2 year contracts. There will be a lot of 5s users buying 6s, including me. Kuo needs to include those customers. I think Kuo is right that force touch will not drive sales for a while, as developers will need to release apps that use it.
Here you go, the stock manipulation again. If you want cheap Apple stocks, buy it in the next few days when WS anal..ists downgrade Apple. This game happens again and again.
Good. Id rather have him talk down the share price now and set up a rise upon earnings. I mean, if he has to utter his unfounded baseless random opinions....
It just shows how short sighted his research note is. Yeah maybe not many 6 owners will upgrade but a large portion of the install base is still using 5/5S or even 4S. They don't need force touch to get them to upgrade. Faster processor, more RAM, better camera will get them to upgrade.
Also there are 6 owners that upgrade due to the high resale value of their old phones. Those owners may still be getting $400 used for their old phones so a $750 phone is not so pricey. I am a 5s owner and I will either buy one of those used iPhone 6 or spring for a full price iPhone 6s but come the annoucement I will get something.
Usually the new industrial design is what excites people. So upgraded internals in the same shell is not seen as "new enough"
But most people buy on contract and they get whatever iphone is current.... as long as its an iphone and better than their old one, they don't care
I've invariably been more, er, "excited" about the "s" generations. It's like they've either fixed what bothered me about the new designs (speed in the 3GS, better antenna design and camera in the 4S) or added stuff that made me go "woah" (Touch ID, gold case, and the massive camera improvements in the 5s).
I've invariably been more, er, "excited" about the "s" generations. It's like they've either fixed what bothered me about the new designs (speed in the 3GS, better antenna design and camera in the 4S) or added stuff that made me go "woah" (Touch ID, gold case, and the massive camera improvements in the 5s).
It's a valid point, take a good thing, upgrade its specs. 5S IMO was a spectacular upgrade, 2x CPU performance, 64-bit OS, touchID, way better LTE, better battery, and gold, too!
But "analysts" don't see it that way, and the FUD they spread is based on this. But the question to ask them is: How is Samsung's 6 month product cycle working out.
Kuo's latest analysis seems like it was purposefully written with a negative slant, as if he was retaliation mode. I wonder what has occurred recently to make this happen.
I also wonder why AI dropped the "well connected" from Kuo's introduction? Hmmm....
On another note, this is the week Samsung is making its "Next Big Thing" announcement. Getting negative press out before Samsung's announcement provides analysts with a way to give Samsung positive press.
Expect Kuo to change his analysis and tone after Samsung makes its announcement, but before Apple makes its announcement. I am guessing Kuo will claim some unnamed source let him know there is more to Force Touch than what other analysts had been writing and that Force Touch will be a trojan killer app.
You should ask yourself the same question. Maybe you need some more "cultural enrichment" before you can understand.
Having actually grown up in different cultures (spent fifteen years of my life abroad, not on military bases), I'm not sure I'm less qualified to judge when somebody's being an asshole than you are.
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Sounds good to me...
Perhaps a new column devoted to what local barbers think about Apple would be in order?
It just shows how short sighted his research note is. Yeah maybe not many 6 owners will upgrade but a large portion of the install base is still using 5/5S or even 4S. They don't need force touch to get them to upgrade. Faster processor, more RAM, better camera will get them to upgrade.
Seriously? Force Touch would freaking rock and give me some phone envy as new apps come out that add physical texture to the UI.
It's the flip flopping that says a lot about analysts' pump and dump stock manipulations.
And btw, racists comments of any sort is certainly not welcomed.
Thank you. Casual racism is not okay.
Cry me a river.
What exactly makes the 6S boring whereas the 7 will be amazing?
Usually the new industrial design is what excites people. So upgraded internals in the same shell is not seen as "new enough"
But most people buy on contract and they get whatever iphone is current.... as long as its an iphone and better than their old one, they don't care
Exactly. Anyone who believes otherwise is just a loser hiding behind a keyboard.
Cry me a river.
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Grow a pair and leave your sensitivity at the door
Leave…racial sensitivity…at the door.
Uh-huh.
Are you sure that's the side of the fence you want to be on?
It just shows how short sighted his research note is. Yeah maybe not many 6 owners will upgrade but a large portion of the install base is still using 5/5S or even 4S. They don't need force touch to get them to upgrade. Faster processor, more RAM, better camera will get them to upgrade.
Also there are 6 owners that upgrade due to the high resale value of their old phones. Those owners may still be getting $400 used for their old phones so a $750 phone is not so pricey. I am a 5s owner and I will either buy one of those used iPhone 6 or spring for a full price iPhone 6s but come the annoucement I will get something.
Usually the new industrial design is what excites people. So upgraded internals in the same shell is not seen as "new enough"
But most people buy on contract and they get whatever iphone is current.... as long as its an iphone and better than their old one, they don't care
I've invariably been more, er, "excited" about the "s" generations. It's like they've either fixed what bothered me about the new designs (speed in the 3GS, better antenna design and camera in the 4S) or added stuff that made me go "woah" (Touch ID, gold case, and the massive camera improvements in the 5s).
Leave…racial sensitivity…at the door.
Uh-huh.
Are you sure that's the side of the fence you want to be on?
You should ask yourself the same question. Maybe you need some more "cultural enrichment" before you can understand.
I've invariably been more, er, "excited" about the "s" generations. It's like they've either fixed what bothered me about the new designs (speed in the 3GS, better antenna design and camera in the 4S) or added stuff that made me go "woah" (Touch ID, gold case, and the massive camera improvements in the 5s).
It's a valid point, take a good thing, upgrade its specs. 5S IMO was a spectacular upgrade, 2x CPU performance, 64-bit OS, touchID, way better LTE, better battery, and gold, too!
But "analysts" don't see it that way, and the FUD they spread is based on this. But the question to ask them is: How is Samsung's 6 month product cycle working out.
Kuo's latest analysis seems like it was purposefully written with a negative slant, as if he was retaliation mode. I wonder what has occurred recently to make this happen.
I also wonder why AI dropped the "well connected" from Kuo's introduction? Hmmm....
On another note, this is the week Samsung is making its "Next Big Thing" announcement. Getting negative press out before Samsung's announcement provides analysts with a way to give Samsung positive press.
Expect Kuo to change his analysis and tone after Samsung makes its announcement, but before Apple makes its announcement. I am guessing Kuo will claim some unnamed source let him know there is more to Force Touch than what other analysts had been writing and that Force Touch will be a trojan killer app.
You should ask yourself the same question. Maybe you need some more "cultural enrichment" before you can understand.
Having actually grown up in different cultures (spent fifteen years of my life abroad, not on military bases), I'm not sure I'm less qualified to judge when somebody's being an asshole than you are.