“Call it blasphemy, but Apple’s (AAPL) next-generation smartphone could be the first iPhone model to debut without the usual lines of buyers outside stores on launch day,” Patrick Seitz reports for Investor’s Business Daily. “‘The consumer reaction to iPhone 5S is, of course, unknowable at this point, but we worry this could be the first iPhone launch that doesn’t generate lines on launch day,’ Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Chris Caso said in a research note Wednesday.”
Seitz reports, “The upcoming iPhone 5S could disappoint, he says, and buyers might wait for the iPhone 6 next year instead.”
MacDailyNews Take: As if we haven’t heard that about iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S, both of which became the best-selling smartphone of their time (as will iPhone 5S).
Seitz reports, “If the iPhone 5S launch disappoints, it will feed the chorus of people who think Apple lacks innovation and that the high-end smartphone market is saturated, Caso told IBD.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Silly season.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dale S.” for the heads up.]
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Why wait in line? Pre-order the phone and have it delivered the day of release.
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Well the truth is every new technology or product type goes through a leveling off in demand after a level of market saturation, and game changing unique products like the iPhone don’t come along very often. The problem is there is a huge industry of leeches and pretenders who’s job and scams depend on a growth market. The analysts – tech or stock – need new products, new things to hype. Even Apple cannot produce products as iconic and historical as the iPhone. Get over it. Apple will do just fine, they won’t go bankrupt, they will continue to produce great products and profits, maybe with a little lower margin and a little less foaming of the mouth by the bloggers, analysts, and other tech leeches who actually never contribute anything productive to the world – they just talk about everyone else.
I’m waiting for months, money ready, for the 5S. But i certainly won’t stand in a line for that matter!
Like many, i can just be patient enough not to be ridiculously standing for hours to enter a shop.