“The iPhone 6 will rack up ‘solid’ consumer demand, at least according to the results of a poll released Tuesday by investment firm RBC Capital Markets,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.
“Surveying more than 4,000 consumers, RBC found that almost half who plan to upgrade their current phones intend to pick up an iPhone within the next three months,” Whitney reports. “Assuming Apple launches the next iPhone in September per its usual time frame, that percentage would spell heavy sales for the iPhone 6. Further, 35 percent of the consumers who don’t have an iPhone in their sights would in fact buy one if Apple bumps up the screen size.”
MacDailyNews Take: Merry Christmas, Fragmandroid! Your one selling point is (finally) about to go “poof!”
“Among those surveyed, 38 percent would be willing to pay $199 to buy a 4.7-inch iPhone, the same price tag as the current 16GB iPhone 5S,” Whitney reports. “But 26 percent would up the ante by $100 by paying $299 for a 5.5-inch iPhone.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Samsung’s Waterloo looms. 🙂
Could not have happen to a most deceitful cesspool of a fart. I smell Apple Pie Baking.
Simple the best . Yes…..!
Apple builds out infrastructure thus giving added value to iOS and OS X users. Samsung, Nokia, others build devices with features.
I think Wall Street is beginning to understand that some consumers buy Android products and other consumers invest in an environment.
Cook, in my opinion, has a very steady hand at the Apple helm as he grows the franchise.
And if Android keeps getting more and more banking fraud malware, Apple is going to see a further rush to iPhones.
Banking fraud tripled in 6 months according to a recent article.
Im counting days for when the Biggest scumbag of them all to pay the price!
Google and the scum Schmidt !
Anyone betting against Apple, including a number of dark side “experts” on Wall Street, will be very sorry. Cook knows exactly what he is doing and the wrath of Steve Jobs’ ghost is about to unleash terror on the 21st century versions of Microsoft – those copy cat thieves at Google and Samsmug! AHHHH ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!
Wasn’t there a time when MDN was telling us that the bigger screen size was of little value?
I believe the iPhone 6 will be a hit. Apple would have made a lot more money on it and garnered more market share had they delivered it a year ago but that’s water under the bridge now.
If the iPhone 6 misses the 2014 holiday shopping season for any reason, heads need to roll. And Tim Cook needs to be one of them.
That was fanboys who said there wouldn’t be a larger iPhone. They have suddenly become very quiet. As usual.
I said I wasn’t interested in a bigger phone and I still am not. A bigger screen would be nice. A bigger phone-no.
MDN are fair weather Bloggers. They get off on tangents on subjects they know very little about and do so via cut and paste from Google search results. MDN is my world is a great place to visit for consolidated Apple Inc. news, and not their fanboy self righteous condescending views of competitors. Yes indeed a large form factor iPhone is coming and yes MDN and most of the folks who post on here ridiculed the companies that offered the large form factor via Android. MDN takes qualify as comedy and nothing else.
The Apple fan mantra was that 3.5 inches (later, 4.0) was the ideal size for one-handed operation. This ignored the size variance of people’s hands. It also ignored the fact of other common use cases, two-handed and stand-mounted.
(Also ignored were their UI design choices with corner buttons and icon placement optimised for the right hand. Lefties had to adjust, like Hendrix learning to play a RH guitar upside down, or Leonardo writing backwards to avoid smearing the ink.)
Then, when large screen phones debuted, they were mocked as unwieldy, a gimmick to disguise the real purpose which was to house a battery large enough to power the thing for more than two hours.
That may have been true at first. But they continue to sell, so now the fan mantra has morphed—now it’s that size is Android’s only advantage…
It might be more accurate to say that Apple’s only DISadvantage is the severity of its design constraints and the skimpiness of its product line.
Hendrix did NOT learn to play a right handed guitar upside down. He used right handed guitars which were restrung for lefties, just as if he had bought left handed guitars. He preferred the start to have its controls on top. Some of the sound he got came from pickups that were left in their original positions, rather than switched.
Wow! Thanks for the correction, terrym10. Do the nut and bridge need any modification when the instrument is strung in reverse?
It’s upgrade time from my 5 anyway, so bring it on!
Who comes up with this stuff? Android owns 93% of the world market and a larger iPhone will have little impact on this reality. IOS 8 is still playing catch up and LG already builds the phone that iPhone 6 copied. Samsung are no doubt still 3 steps ahead and will introduce forward thinking tech within weeks of the launch of the iPhone 6.
Agreed. The brand of phone you carry means little. That’s why Android exists. Let discerning users get the product they want (usually iOs). But Android has command of large portions of the market. And, there are some quality products (HTC ONE 8 comes to mind).
A larger iPhone will position Apple for the market realities of the present. They will sell millions and do just fine. But a shift in marketshare is not going to occur. Why would you want it to, anyway?
50% plus one.