Weak demand leads Apple to halve iPhone 5 component orders

No surprise really - Jan to March is a typically quiet time for retail. The mass of people who wanted the iPhone 5 would have got one already.
 
Raymond Lin said:
What is so good about it?
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Unless that was a sarcastic oh good?!?

For example, a bit of short story:

OP enters stage right with a troubled look upon his face.

It is apparent that OP has just read the news about the decline in component sales for the Apple Iphone 5.

OP sighs, and relines in his chair.

"Oh good..." he mutters un-enthusiastically.

A small tear emerges from his bloodshot eye, as he wipes it with his sleeve.

OP rises from his chair and heads to the exit stage right, his final words being...

"The end is neigh"

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Thats how i interpreted it.
 
As a staunch Apple fan, I read that as grim news and personally I feel that Apple are heading for bumpy times as far as their mobile device is concerned.

Maps, build quality issues and lack of innovation spelled a bad year for their mobile section, and I think stories like the OP posted underpin this view. I truly hope they get back to innovating, and building quality into their devices in the coming months but from what I've been reading it's all about an aggressive product cycle now.

I don't think the iPhone has had it's day, but I don't think it's anywhere near as popular as Apple think it is.
 
People keep saying iOS is stale in comparison to Android but what else do they want from it? I've used Jelly Bean on a tablet and it is just ghastly. GHASTLY.
 
People just aren't buying into the iphone5, anecdotally speaking I know a few apple enthusiasts that just don't feel it's worth an upgrade over their iphone4s, not unless they get it offered as a free upgrade on their contract.

I think we're see a big price cut or a new strategy with pricing come this march, maybe a 'cheaper, model of iphone.
 
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And I think everyone who wanted an iPhone got a 4S and is probably locked into a two year contract and couldn't get the iPhone 5 anyway. I know all my family are. They'll be ready to upgrade again later this year.
 
I just think they're a little expensive. A couple of years ago they were miles ahead of Android. Now I'm not so sure.

It also seemed to me like more people upgraded from iphone 3/4 to 4s than people upgraded 4/4s to 5. The 5 has brought little except that bit of extra screen. The 4s is perfectly good phone without.

I think the lack of jailbreak for iOS 6 hasn't helped. I had a go on my mates iPhone 5 over Christmas and ended up saying I wouldn't swap it for my jailbroken 4s.

I wonder what they can do next.
 
ic1male said:
People keep saying iOS is stale in comparison to Android but what else do they want from it? I've used Jelly Bean on a tablet and it is just ghastly. GHASTLY.
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Widgets are an important thing now, even MS has embraced them with their 'active tiles', people like myself want info without needing to load up an app, also apple need to ditch the skeuomorphism, it feels so dated now, it was fun and quirky on the original iphone, not anymore.
 
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inogen said:
I just think they're a little expensive. A couple of years ago they were miles ahead of Android. Now I'm not so sure.
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They've been this ballpark for price for a while, I paid £500 for my iPhone 4 over 2 years ago.


inogen said:
It also seemed to me like more people upgraded from iphone 3/4 to 4s than people upgraded 4/4s to 5. The 5 has brought little except that bit of extra screen. The 4s is perfectly good phone without.
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This is perhaps closest to the truth. There is hardly anything new you can do on the 5 that you can't on the 4S.

inogen said:
I think the lack of jailbreak for iOS 6 hasn't helped. I had a go on my mates iPhone 5 over Christmas and ended up saying I wouldn't swap it for my jailbroken 4s.
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The percentage of users who jailbreak or care enough not to upgrade because of lack of jailbreak is tiny. Go into an Apple Store and you will see a whole range of people, from old women to teenage girls, these people would never even heard of jailbreak. The people who care that much? They are already running Andriod.

I seriously doubt this class of people have any impact in the sales figures.
 
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Ghastly? in what way?:confused:
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It's hard to describe without me holding Android in my hand and going through it. But it's stuff like how the widgets are laid out, how icons on the status bar can overlap each other if you have too many. The styling of the menus and text in settings isn't as clear as iOS as well IMO.
 
Raymond Lin said:
They've been this ballpark for price for a while, I paid £500 for my iPhone 4 over 2 years ago.
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So relative to Android, and the big selling Andoid phones, they've lost value.

Raymond Lin said:
The percentage of users who jailbreak or care enough not to upgrade because of lack of jailbreak is tiny. Go into an Apple Store and you will see a whole range of people, from old women to teenage girls, these people would never even heard of jailbreak. The people who care that much? They are already running Andriod.

I seriously doubt this class of people have any impact in the sales figures.
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The percentage of jailbroken phones when iOS5 was the latest and greatest was about 10%. It's estimated that over a third of iPhones in China are jailbroken.
 
Estimated? And how big is the Chinese market for iPhones in a global scale?

10%? I call BS. I know lots of iPhone 4/4s users and none are jailbroken.
 
Big apple fan but iOS does need sprucing up somehow, I seldom use android but when i do such as at work when putting network settings in for students it is impressing me. I really like the nexus 10 except the aspect ratio is a bit odd. It's not quite there but it is improving faster than iOS is.
 
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ic1male said:
It's hard to describe without me holding Android in my hand and going through it. But it's stuff like how the widgets are laid out, how icons on the status bar can overlap each other if you have too many. The styling of the menus and text in settings isn't as clear as iOS as well IMO.
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Well I'm a graphic designer (traditionally Apple territory) and can say I brandish my Nexus 4 with pride. And my Nexus 7 too. Android might not be as precisely designed as iOS, but it offers far more flexibility and the consistency of the interface doesn't suffer.
 
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