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I think the reasons the new phones aren't selling is that: - Anyone who already has a 6S or later can save money by not buying a new phone. Before this year, t
by Alex3917 9y ago
I think the reasons the new phones aren't selling is that:
- Anyone who already has a 6S or later can save money by not buying a new phone. Before this year, the way phone contracts worked is that you were paying for a new phone whether you bought one or not, so it would never make sense not to buy one.
- No B71 or 4x4 MIMO support, meaning that next year's phones are going to be the ones you actually want, whereas these phones don't really offer any advantages over the 6S.
So unless you dropped your phone or something anyway, I don't really see any compelling reason to upgrade.
- viraptor 9y ago> No B71 or 4x4 MIMO support I'm not sure a statistically relevant number of people care or even know about those technologies.
- Alex3917 9y agoDoesn’t matter. If Tim Cook had come on stage and said that the phones this year were going to get much better reception, and data speeds would be much faster, then the phones would be selling. But instead the pitch was that the graphics chip was 30% better or whatever, which no one cares about. Just wait until next year, we’ll see more sales after these features are added.
- xbmcuser 9y ago99% of iPhone owners won't know what that is. People now have feature fatigue and don't need new features with every upgrade. Many people I know that had 6s and expired contract are either waiting for iPhone X or upgraded to Phone 7. Because of this the difference between an iPhone 7 with contract is just about us$20 from an iPhone 8 around here.