“There will be an awful lot of people in the market for a new iPhone come September,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports for ZDNet.
“According to data released by analytics firm Localytics, Apple’s next iPhone could benefit from a massive upgrade wave as owners of the hugely popular iPhone 6 begin looking for a new handset,” Kingsley-Hughes reports. “The data shows that 28 percent of iPhone users are running the iPhone 6, and come September these devices will begin hitting the three-year-old mark, with another 15.7 percent running the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s models.”
Kingsley-Hughes reports, “The iPhone 6 was a big hit for Apple (and a release that itself triggered a huge upgrade wave for the company), [so] the numbers are looking good for Apple.”
Read more, and see the quarterly iPhone unit sales graph, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It always amazes us how many older iPhones are still in use.
The only thing that will limit sales of “iPhone 8” is Apple’s ability to make enough units to satisfy demand.
You seem to be another one of those smug conservatives who equates being poor/not rich with stupidity. Goody for you that you manage to upgrade every year. Frankly, that don’t impress me much. Apple just replaced my aging 6 Plus with a brand new one at no charge- fresh new battery. Works fine. Will surely upgrade to the 8, though. And I’d like to upgrade to a 2017 iMac and iPad Pro- but that’s up to Apple.
And you don’t think intelligence has anything to do with wealth and success? That’s borderline anti-semitic.
Antisemitic? Not even close. Your misuse of the term is appalling and and an insult to anyone who has experienced antisemitism. Look it up in a dictionary or Wikipedia. Do you have to be so stupid?
So you deny that Jewish people are among the most intelligent and successful people on earth. Anti-semitism is thrown around as loosely as racism is. You can thank the ADL for the cheapening of the term by including hoax bomb threats made by an Israeli Jew against Jewish community centers (!) as examples of anti-semitism. Tack on Chuck Schumer’s appaling accusations of anti-semitism in the case of Jewish cemeteries that have become dilapidated from generations of neglect.
I think you mean smug Liberals who equate being poor/not rich with stupidity. See: “Flyover counrty” and the regional Democrat Party stuck in islands on the coasts.
Ha!
They didn’t look so smug at the Javitt’s Center on election night! 🙂
You live in a very gerrymandered world. Have you ever been to democratic strongholds like Austin TX? Minneapolis? Denver? Chicago?
No, I suppose not. Meeting new people with different perspectives is exactly the opposite of your style.
We get it. When you’re a paid blogger for the RNC, you are dumb enough to think everyone else is a liberal.
My iPh 6 has been and still is superb. W/o being sensational, and dismissing the expected tech progress of any device, it’s been vastly superior to all preceding upgrades. Glad to read about the quality differentiation btwn 6 and 7. There are some software idiosyncrasies that bug me, but they’ve been around for a number of iOS upgrades. It will be hard to and, hard NOT to buy up to the 8.
The fast processor and increased ram in the iPhone 7 almost makes up for the cheap feel of the solid state touch id, the annoying force3d touch, the mandatory headphone adapter required to use my Klipsch headphones, the continued shitty placement of the power button, and the $100 price increase over the iPhone 6S.
Almost.
The only reason a new iPhone 8 model would sell better than the iPhone 6 super cycle is if it actually works better or id Apple actually makes headway selling in Asian emerging economies.
In the real world, the iPhone 7 isn’t enough more desirable than the 6 and sales reflect it. Remember, the iPhone 7 should have been a runaway success with the samsung meltdown. It was not. iPhone 6 sold as well if not better if you look at device usage stats. Apple didn’t listen to users, it instead tried to make a phone that would drive users to buy wireless headphones. The ploy failed.
No, the upcoming massive upgrade wave is due to the fact that the last, so called, “upgrade” was a joke and nobody was impressed, so people held off.
Don’t be a fool.
My iPhone 7 Plus has 256GB onboard, dual cameras, Portrait mode, optical zoom an Apple A10, M10, wide color capture, etc.
It’s markedly faster and better in many, many ways that my old iPhone 6s Plus.
Just because you’re too poor and/or too stupid to figure out how to upgrade yearly, don’t spout easily disproven stupidity.
You seem to be another one of those smug conservatives who equates being poor/not rich with stupidity. Goody for you that you manage to upgrade every year. Frankly, that don’t impress me much. Apple just replaced my aging 6 Plus with a brand new one at no charge- fresh new battery. Works fine. Will surely upgrade to the 8, though. And I’d like to upgrade to a 2017 iMac and iPad Pro- but that’s up to Apple.
And you don’t think intelligence has anything to do with wealth and success? That’s borderline anti-semitic.
Antisemitic? Not even close. Your misuse of the term is appalling and and an insult to anyone who has experienced antisemitism. Look it up in a dictionary or Wikipedia. Do you have to be so stupid?
So you deny that Jewish people are among the most intelligent and successful people on earth. Anti-semitism is thrown around as loosely as racism is. You can thank the ADL for the cheapening of the term by including hoax bomb threats made by an Israeli Jew against Jewish community centers (!) as examples of anti-semitism. Tack on Chuck Schumer’s appaling accusations of anti-semitism in the case of Jewish cemeteries that have become dilapidated from generations of neglect.
I think you mean smug Liberals who equate being poor/not rich with stupidity. See: “Flyover counrty” and the regional Democrat Party stuck in islands on the coasts.
Ha!
They didn’t look so smug at the Javitt’s Center on election night! 🙂
You live in a very gerrymandered world. Have you ever been to democratic strongholds like Austin TX? Minneapolis? Denver? Chicago?
No, I suppose not. Meeting new people with different perspectives is exactly the opposite of your style.
We get it. When you’re a paid blogger for the RNC, you are dumb enough to think everyone else is a liberal.
You’re such a loser !
My iPh 6 has been and still is superb. W/o being sensational, and dismissing the expected tech progress of any device, it’s been vastly superior to all preceding upgrades. Glad to read about the quality differentiation btwn 6 and 7. There are some software idiosyncrasies that bug me, but they’ve been around for a number of iOS upgrades. It will be hard to and, hard NOT to buy up to the 8.
I upgraded to the 6 from a 3G. It will be a long time before I upgrade again.
I guess if you play games on your phone an upgrade is highly desirable but for calls, photos and texts there isn’t any great pressure to do so.
The camera, screen, and speed on my wife’s 7+ outclass my 6. My 6 isn’t bad by any means, but that 7+ is pretty sweet.
I have the 6 Plus and I have been very pleased with it.
I may upgrade, I’ll have to see what the new iPhone has to offer, see what the reviews are.
I happily went from a 6+ (with bad battery) to an SE. Wake me up when they make a better phone in the SE form factor.
The fast processor and increased ram in the iPhone 7 almost makes up for the cheap feel of the solid state touch id, the annoying force3d touch, the mandatory headphone adapter required to use my Klipsch headphones, the continued shitty placement of the power button, and the $100 price increase over the iPhone 6S.
Almost.
The only reason a new iPhone 8 model would sell better than the iPhone 6 super cycle is if it actually works better or id Apple actually makes headway selling in Asian emerging economies.
In the real world, the iPhone 7 isn’t enough more desirable than the 6 and sales reflect it. Remember, the iPhone 7 should have been a runaway success with the samsung meltdown. It was not. iPhone 6 sold as well if not better if you look at device usage stats. Apple didn’t listen to users, it instead tried to make a phone that would drive users to buy wireless headphones. The ploy failed.
Moral of this story: Many disappointed people due to shortages caused by supply pipeline woes.
The picture is wrong. I’d never, ever bother with a motorbike. I can fly, remember? No carbon emissions for me. I’m Superman!