“The iPhone 5s is doing pretty well in terms of sales numbers, and has just passed 10 percent usage rate among iPhone models according to mobile analytics firm Mixpanel,” Darrell Etherington reports for TechCrunch.
“That’s a significant milestone, because it means that users are adopting the iPhone 5s at between two and three times the rate they got on board with the iPhone 5,” Etherington reports. “And the iPhone 5c, while trailing the iPhone 5s, is actually doing better than many might expect, too.”
Etherington reports, “The iPhone 5c’s growth is roughly equivalent to the general rate of adoption for the iPhone 5. Mixpanel CEO Suhail Doshi says that means the 5c is quite possibly ‘doing a reasonable job of taking over the mid-end part of the smartphone market.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Took the geniuses this long to get it huh?
Buyers of the iPhone 5C must suffer from a peculiar brain ailment called mathematicus inabiltus countus.
I went into a Target and asked a quick question about the new iPhones to a sales-person and he went into a hard-sell on the 5c.
Was refreshing not to be steered to an Android phone even though I’d never buy a 5c.
Why is it that the iPhone 5 was the best phone on the planet Aug 2013, but now that the 5S is out the 5C (same as 5) is such a bad choice. There are plenty of people who prefer to save $100. In 2 years when the contract is up on their 5C, they will likely choose the next cheapest option Apple offers at that time (7C perhaps) and it will put the 5S to shame.
Not everybody needs the latest and greatest and from a “mathematicus” standpoint who’s further ahead.
Let’s take a corporation that is acquiring dozens of phones. $1000’s of dollars in savings or perhaps putting the balance towards AppleCare+ makes more sense.
We get it. The 5S is “only” $100 more, but not everybody receives the value. I’m sure the corporation could care less whether their employees need to enter a passcode, vs. using a thumbprint. Most people don’t even take advantage of 5% of the technology they already own.
There is a reason iPad 2 is still kicking around as well.
You miss the point. From the smartphone industry’s point of view, the iPhone is seen as light-years behind Android because the iPhone doesn’t offer a larger display. Nothing Apple offers is seen as overcoming that huge deficiency. The general perception is that everyone on the planet wants a smartphone with at least a 4.5″ display. So far, no one is willing to disprove that perception and the iPhone is being disregarded for that reason. The smartphone industry sees any iPhone as inferior to even a mid-tier Android smartphone because of the smaller display.
Because ALL Android manufacturers offer large screen smartphones it is generally assumed that the iPhone MUST have one. I don’t really understand the logic of that assumption but I suppose that is the obvious conclusion to most people. But then again I’ve never really understood human nature all that well. One thing for sure, the whole smartphone industry agrees iPhones are TOO expensive for consumers.
The “smartphone industry” seems to think so, but the consumers apparently don’t.
“Nothing Apple offers is seen as overcoming that huge deficiency.”
“Because ALL Android manufacturers offer large screen smartphones it is generally assumed that the iPhone MUST have one. I don’t really understand the logic of that assumption but I suppose that is the obvious conclusion to most people.”
IF it were such a huge deficiency and IF there were any logic behind that assumption, Apple would not be selling iPhone 5s models in record numbers — and selling more iPhone 5c units in 2013 than they were selling iPhone 4S units in the same period in 2012. Clearly there is a huge market for the size of screen that Apple sells. Clearly the fandroids and the assumed “common wisdom” is wrong — as usual.
Or they may just suffer from colorus adorus as many a high school girl I’ve seen toting them will attest. Not that I’m observing high school girls or anything.
My guess is that the 5c is doing as well as the regular 5 would have done, BUT with much higher margins and AVAILABILITY. Smart move.
“the whole smartphone industry agrees iPhones are TOO expensive for consumers” — it looks like the smartphone industry is too stupid to count as significant tens of millions of people actually willing to spend money.
It comes down to a pretty basic choice in the end – pick between 2 geniuses doesn’t matter how you rate the
1 from the past or 1 who will define the future
Fairly easy choice for me IVE had picked the same man as cook did and no doubt the late great steve would had done if push came to shove