“The dual September unveiling of the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, but staggered release dates, was borne out of necessity and not “marketing,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC after reporting blowout quarterly earnings,” Matthew J. Belvedere reports for CNBC.
“‘If we could do anything we wanted to, we would have obviously shipped 8, 8 Plus and X on the same day,’ Cook said Thursday evening in an off-camera interview. ‘But we felt like the most important thing for us to do was to announce them on the same day so we wouldn’t have customers buy an 8 and then we announce the X and ship it and they go, ‘Oh, you hosed me, I would’ve bought a X,”” Belvedere reports. “‘That’s the reason that we did the stagger,’ Cook said. ‘It wasn’t a marketing thing. It was we weren’t ready to ship; we were still working on [the X]. We accelerated the date at which we were initially planning to do iPhone X. And that’s how we got here and we’re going to learn a lot.'”
“Cook also told CNBC on Thursday that the iPhone X was ‘quickly backlogged’ due to strong demand,” Belvedere reports. “Asked when supply would catch up, he said there’s no telling when.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Yes, there’s absolutely no way, they could have unveiled and launched iPhone and 8 Plus and then revealed the iPhone X a month later.
Those people who would claim to have been hosed would be absolutely correct. It had to be done this way.
Bravo for doing it right. I love this company. Every freaking day.
That’s the best explanation I’ve heard. All the analysts complaining how “stupid” Apple was to have released this year’s iPhones this way—”going to kill sales; going to hurt quarterly revenue.” Turns out that Apple was just being considerate, and damn the lost/delayed sales.
He’s right!
If I were Apple, I would’ve wanted to release a X and a X-plus and no iPhone 8 at all. But I suppose since they had a hard time just getting the X out alone, releasing two all-screen OLED models at this time was just not in the cards. Imagine how big an X-plus will be, 6.5″ screen maybe? It’s gotta be in the plans.
I uncomfortable associating, the “you hosed me” headline.
Stop p!ss!ng all over this forum, buddy, or I’ll take you to Tim Chef who will chop you up, hose you down and show you his trumpet.
Well, it seems Mr. Cook has learned to speak Canadian, as in Canadian slang, ‘to hose’ is a synonym for ‘to swindle’ (credit Wikipedia). There is no need to feel uncomfortable.
you did hose me, jackass