“A new survey suggests that Apple may have sold its iPhone 5 to more than a third of smartphone consumers before the device is even announced, let alone on the market,” Adam Dickter reports for Sci-Tech Today.
“The computer giant is widely believed to have an iPhone refresh up its sleeve for this fall, and the survey suggests a large share of consumers are holding off upgrades or new purchases until then,” Dickter reports. “PriceGrabber’s online poll of 2,852 consumers found 35 percent are planning to grab a new iPhone, with 52 percent of them indicating they’ll buy it within the first year of release; 30 percent plan to get one by the end of 2011; and 14 percent hope to buy it within the first month. Seven percent will wait online to buy it within the first week.”
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Dickter reports, “Apple’s iOS, due for an upgrade this fall and used in iPads and iPod touch devices as well as iPhones, also scored high in the survey, getting thumbs-up from 48 percent of survey respondents, compared with just 19 percent who prefer Google’s Android OS, seven percent who favor Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 or earlier mobile systems, and six percent who like Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: In related news, 65% of smartphone consumers breathe primarily through their mouths.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow C.” for the heads up.]
@MDN take…. very, VERY funny…
and of those 65%, 10% have a blockage of some sort, 35% are intellectually “differently abled”, and 55% are cheap-assed f$cks who couldn’t care less. + or – the percentage of error 50%
That should be 36%, because I do, infact, equal 1 whole percent…. 😉
And the other 65% will be getting iPod Touches – Yea!
Well iPhone 4 is amazing and for me unless it is a Major upgrade I won’t be buying one .
Rampant halo effect. iCloud should drive iPhone adoption through the roof.
An INTERNET POLL? Ah yes, you mean the non-scientific always skewed kind that mean next to nothing, right?
Good point. And this guy who writes for Sci-Tech News… Is that REALLY his last name, or some frat boy’s bragging on Saturday morning?
I will be buying since I’m still using the OG iPhone…Still working without any problems
35% of self-selected iPhone zealots = meaningless data.
Wow, I just realized how much longer I have to hold on to my iPhone, they will be sold out for long time. Maybe I just switch to Android where I can just walk to a store and get a phone, I’m using the iPad more and more anyway. The same happened with iPod and iPhone.
I will get it on minute one. But, unlike with the iPhone 4 release… The wife and teenage son will have to ‘settle’ for last year’s model… Poor things…
Actually the other 65% have bought an iPhone 4 in the past few months so will probably hold out for iPhone 6.
I resent MDN’s take. It is, at best, poorly considered. Without more information I am extremely unlikely to upgrade my iPhone 4 before my contract expires.
I’ll be in line. Day UNO.