“Just in case you needed a little more proof that Apple really wants to expand the iPhone market, just take a look at how it is scooping up presence in the prepaid smartphone market,” Jonny Evans writes for Apple Must.
“Apple has always grabbed the majority slice of the high-end iPhone-plus-wannabe-iPhone market, but has traditionally left the lower parts of the market to Android device vendors to fight over. This has led to lots of consumers using cheap Android devices, having a rubbish experience, and then migrating to iPhone when they can,” Evans writes. “Apple clearly wants to improve this.”
“Apple has racked up a host of deals to offer up subsidized iPhone’s as prepaid devices,” Evans writes. “The company is quite clearly working to make sure that it still commands loyalty at the high-end of the market, but also offers other people the chance to get onto the iOS road show”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Why settle for a pretend iPhone when the real thing is right there for the taking? It’s silly, counterproductive, and your messages are fscking GREEN. Awaken ye confused, hoodwinked masses!
If it’s not an iPhone, it’s not an iPhone.
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The cost of free: More than one million Google Android devices hit by malware – November 30, 2016
Secret backdoor in U.S. Android phones sent location, text, contact data to China – November 15, 2016
Poor man’s iPhone: Android on the decline – February 26, 2015
Study: iPhone users are smarter and richer than those who settle for Android phones – January 22, 2015
Why Android users can’t have the nicest things – January 5, 2015
iPhone users earn significantly more than those who settle for Android phones – October 8, 2014
Yet more proof that Android is for poor people – June 27, 2014
More proof that Android is for poor people – May 13, 2014
Android users poorer, shorter, unhealthier, less educated, far less charitable than Apple iPhone users – November 13, 2013
IDC data shows two thirds of Android’s 81% smartphone share are cheap junk phones – November 13, 2013
CIRP: Apple iPhone users are younger, richer, and better educated than those who settle for Samsung knockoff phones – August 19, 2013
iPhone users smarter, richer than Android phone users – August 16, 2011
Study: Apple iPhone users richer, younger, more productive than other so-called ‘smartphone’ users – June 12, 2009
Those stupid green messages make me crazy.
Those green messages just let me know which of my friends and relatives are in the “needs to be sharpened” tool box.
Last year I bought an iPhone 7 unlocked from the Apple Store. I picked up a SIM card a less expensive provider and have saved every month. The option has always been there, just get he unlocked version of the phone.
Do consumers really want old iPhones when they can get shiny new Android smartphones for the same price? I clearly see why Wall Street values Alphabet higher than Apple. Alphabet seems to understand human nature better than Apple. Consumers are always looking for bargains and ads are going to let those people know how Apple is trying to trick consumers into buying old iPhones which are no longer cutting edge.
It doesn’t matter if the iPhones are of higher quality than brand new Android smartphones. It’s just a matter of new vs. old and that’s enough to sway consumers to the new. Meanwhile, Alphabet is going to keep trying to get manufacturers to sell cheaper and cheaper Android smartphones to suck the smartphone market away from Apple. Wall Street will definitely be betting on Alphabet because they believe Apple’s strategy won’t work. The hoodwinked masses are happy buying Android smartphones because they’re cheap.
Yes, they do. Consumers really want iPhones, new or refurb!
Apple has always been, and continues to be, an aspirational brand. Most of those who buy cheap Androids are doing it because they can’t afford iPhones, and the moment they win lottery, they will throw those Androids away and buy themselves iPhones.
In all seriousness, there is really no need for Apple to ever discount their hardware. No brand out there is more coveted than Apple, and the main reason that is so is because they never discount their stuff. There is never two-for-one, 40%off, nothing. The best you can hope for, around Black Friday, is 10% off.
No other brand can do that.
Balderdash!
Apple will always own the smartphone market(profits). Without going into all the reasons why, just take my word for it.
Thanks Tim! Lol
green messages?
Apple iMessages — Apple to Apple messages — are shown in blue. Green texts mean the other party is not on an Apple.
And who the sh!t decided to display them in green?