“There’s been a blitz of new phones announced in the past few weeks, and I’ve heard a rumor that explains why: Apple has determined the month of September is when phone sales peak,” John C. Dvorak writes for PC Magazine. “Apparently this explains some of the peculiar roll-outs in advance of next month.”
“The way I see it, the more competitor phones that come out, the better off Apple becomes,” Dvorak writes. “The iPhone remains the only real prestige smartphone. Why go nuts with a million new models, à la Samsung, when your phone is still the only one people respect?”
Dvorak writes, “This brings me to a weird story my son told me that he has checked out and thinks is probably true. I can believe it… A friend of his claims that in the modern bar scene you will not get laid if you you have anything other than an iPhone. It’s an automatic deal killer if you pull out an HTC One or even a Galaxy S 4. An oversized Samsung Galaxy Note would be a deal breaker for certain.”
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