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My buddy has purchased every new iPhone on release day since the first version. Every new iPhone except the 7. He said "The one I have now is the last one I'll

My buddy has purchased every new iPhone on release day since the first version. Every new iPhone except the 7. He said "The one I have now is the last one I'll buy". He's not willing to give up the headphone jack. I expect there are many more like him so a 10% reduction in production is to be expected. To be fair the 7 is slick and nice in a lot of ways.

melling 10y ago
I always bought every other iPhone. This year I got the iPhone 7 Plus and got on the every year upgrade plan... Put my girlfriend on the same plan. Just another anecdotal story to pass around.
brandonmenc 10y ago
> He's not willing to give up the headphone jack. Give him a couple years. He will.
- jsemrau 10y ago
  then we will have better voice recognition and Bluetooth connectivity.
  - legodt 10y ago
    Yes, but all of my nice audio equipment isn't going to magically convert to Bluetooth.
aeontech 10y ago
10% or more reduction in the quarter after the holidays is always to be expected. This is just more of the usual "we need to write about _something_" journalism. Sigh. (PS: anecdotally, 3 family members upgraded to 7s/7s+ in the last month. No complaints about headphone jack, it's really only a huge issue in the internet echo chamber while ordinary people in their vast majority don't care and just use whatever buds come with the device).
- erdevs 10y ago
  The article isn't talking about quarter over quarter growth, but year over year. Quarterly sales will likely decline, as they do most every year in the period and as is perfectly natural for this market. The story is that year-over-year growth may be lower than expected and that iPhone 7 component orders are being trimmed down.
  - aeontech 10y ago
    I don't see anything in the article that says it's a 10% cut compared to last year, but maybe I missed it, can you clarify?
    - erdevs 10y ago
      "Apple will trim production of its iPhone family around 10% on the year in the first quarter of 2017... This comes after the company slashed output in January-March 2016." Along with the context that there is absolutely no news here if this is merely a dip in production from Oct-Dec to Jan-March as holiday sales are always high and then dip down significantly after January. The year-over-year trend is what matters. Further context to back this up, from the USA Today article on this same story: "Apple has hinted throughout the year sales of its iPhone would decline. Fiscal year revenue for 2016 dropped for the first time in fifteen years. Meanwhile, fourth quarter iPhone shipments were down 5% from the same time last year." It's a year-over-year trend, which is relatively unexpected, not quarter-over-quarter which is absolutely expected in this period.
      - aeontech 10y ago
        Ah, okay, I didn't know the on the year term. there is absolutely no news here if this is merely a dip in production from Oct-Dec to Jan-March as holiday sales are always high and then dip down significantly after January. Right, which is why I thought this was a non-article written in times of slow news. Thanks for explaining!
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melling 10y ago

I always bought every other iPhone. This year I got the iPhone 7 Plus and got on the every year upgrade plan... Put my girlfriend on the same plan. Just another anecdotal story to pass around.

brandonmenc 10y ago

> He's not willing to give up the headphone jack. Give him a couple years. He will.

jsemrau 10y ago
then we will have better voice recognition and Bluetooth connectivity.
- legodt 10y ago
  Yes, but all of my nice audio equipment isn't going to magically convert to Bluetooth.

aeontech 10y ago

10% or more reduction in the quarter after the holidays is always to be expected. This is just more of the usual "we need to write about _something_" journalism. Sigh. (PS: anecdotally, 3 family members upgraded to 7s/7s+ in the last month. No complaints about headphone jack, it's really only a huge issue in the internet echo chamber while ordinary people in their vast majority don't care and just use whatever buds come with the device).

erdevs 10y ago
The article isn't talking about quarter over quarter growth, but year over year. Quarterly sales will likely decline, as they do most every year in the period and as is perfectly natural for this market. The story is that year-over-year growth may be lower than expected and that iPhone 7 component orders are being trimmed down.
- aeontech 10y ago
  I don't see anything in the article that says it's a 10% cut compared to last year, but maybe I missed it, can you clarify?
  - erdevs 10y ago
    "Apple will trim production of its iPhone family around 10% on the year in the first quarter of 2017... This comes after the company slashed output in January-March 2016." Along with the context that there is absolutely no news here if this is merely a dip in production from Oct-Dec to Jan-March as holiday sales are always high and then dip down significantly after January. The year-over-year trend is what matters. Further context to back this up, from the USA Today article on this same story: "Apple has hinted throughout the year sales of its iPhone would decline. Fiscal year revenue for 2016 dropped for the first time in fifteen years. Meanwhile, fourth quarter iPhone shipments were down 5% from the same time last year." It's a year-over-year trend, which is relatively unexpected, not quarter-over-quarter which is absolutely expected in this period.
    - aeontech 10y ago
      Ah, okay, I didn't know the on the year term. there is absolutely no news here if this is merely a dip in production from Oct-Dec to Jan-March as holiday sales are always high and then dip down significantly after January. Right, which is why I thought this was a non-article written in times of slow news. Thanks for explaining!
      - 10y ago