Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Jan 2013 09:12 UTC
The New York Times also chimes in on the reduced orders, and they have numbers which seem more realistic. "Apple does appear to be cutting back on orders for its latest iPhone from its manufacturing partners, as Nikkei of Japan and The Wall Street Journal reported earlier. Paul Semenza, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, a research firm that follows the display market, said that for January, Apple had expected to order 19 million displays for the iPhone 5 but cut the order to 11 million to 14 million. Mr. Semenza said these numbers came from sources in the supply chain, the companies that make components for Apple products." Some suggest this is stock manipulation, and while that is an exciting story to be sure, would respected and well-informed newspapers like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times participate in something like that? Somehow, I highly doubt it. A far more logical explanation, as NYT details, is that the iPhone simply isn't doing overly well outside of the US.
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Could be the iPhone 5 is not as good of a phone as the 4S it replaced. Wifi issues and 3G reception issues. Wifi supposedly fixed with the iPhone 5/iPad Mini only update, but my wife's 5 consistently gets worse reception than my 4. I can text away and her phone says "no service" or is extremely slow. Supposedly the 3G issues are fixed in iOS 6.1 so we will see. But I'm taking a wait and see attitude on upgrading my line. I don't really need to upgrade and poorer reception makes the "want" factor go away completely.
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Get an adapter.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD823ZM/A/lightning-to-30-pin-ada...
Done.
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To put simply the Mobile Network Operators are to be blamed here, they have gotten incredibly greedy and expecting the iPhone 5 to just sell have massively overpriced it on really terrible contracts. This applies here in the UK, I know a lot of people have not upgraded because of this very reason and are still running their old iPhones some are looking to move to Android.
No. To put it simply - in US the operators are free to charge you stupid fees on your devices and then charge you your usual $100 per device. In EU that practice "does not fly", so the operators are done supporting Apple with their cash and are letting the customer pay the full actual price.* Why? Because when you buy an iPhone you are not likely to be proving additional revenues for the operator to cover for the subsidy(considering OTT, premium SMS messages and similar)
*- iPhone5 off contract is about €750 and it's subsidy constitutes €10-€15 in your monthly bill. That is a considerable hole between the price the operator pays to Apple and you pay back.(I suppose Apple only gets €500 when sold in bulk to operators)
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apples sells unlocked no-subsidy iphone5's direct to US consumers for a bit less than 500 euros (16GB) or 575 euros (32GB). carriers must get them for substantially less. but apple certainly is selling them for more than android or windows phones, and without subsidies price-conscious consumers will choose other options. even in the us, other brands are doing increasingly well.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/07/13 11:40 UTC
This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
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I think I know why, the phone has been sold here in the UK at a premium where the S3 can be bought on a £25 a month contract with the phone free the iPhone 5 is on the most expensive contracts with a heavy up front fee as well, which on all calculations end up costing at least twice the actual price of the iPhone off contract. In fact a few of my friends have bought the iphone 5 off of contract and then signed up to giffgaff a mobile network here which charges 12.50 a month and provides unlimited data.
To put simply the Mobile Network Operators are to be blamed here, they have gotten incredibly greedy and expecting the iPhone 5 to just sell have massively overpriced it on really terrible contracts. This applies here in the UK, I know a lot of people have not upgraded because of this very reason and are still running their old iPhones some are looking to move to Android.
The other reason is quite simply that the iPhone 5 is very boring, its a bit bigger than the iPhone 4 but it looks very similar, so why bother upgrading thats the other reason. I am sure interface wise and hardware wise the next iteration of the iPhone will be very different at least I hope for Apples sake it will be.