“Apple’s high-end iPhone 5s has been so remarkably successful, in spite of the supposed cheapening trend in smartphone buyers’ tastes, that Apple’s critics have been forced to pounce upon the supposed ‘failure’ of the iPhone 5c instead; a phone that sells so ‘terribly’ that it also outsold the ostensibly successful Samsung Galaxy S4 on half of America’s top carriers, and pushed every other Android phone out of the top U.S. sales charts entirely, from the first month it went on sale,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“The primary data point supporting the ‘5c Failure’ propaganda campaign is that the cheaper model hasn’t been able to outsell Apple’s top of the line 5s, as if Apple would prefer to sell the 5c and collect at least $100 less per sale… Apple’s iPhone 5c was actually more successful than every other Android flagship smartphone,” Dilger reports. “Data from multiple sources, compiled by blogger J. M. Manness, indicates that about 12.8 million of the 51 million iPhones Apple sold in the winter quarter were iPhone 5c, while 6.4 million were iPhone 4S and 31.9 million were iPhone 5s. That number aligns with reports that the 5s outsold 5c by a ratio of around 2.5:1 overall.”
“That means iPhone 5c sold twice as many units as all Blackberry smartphone sales combined (6 million), more than all of Nokia’s Windows Phone smartphone sales in the winter quarter (8.2 million), and in fact, all of Microsoft’s Windows Phones sold globally in the winter quarter (slightly more than 8.2 million, as Nokia makes 90 percent of the world’s Windows Phones),” Dilger reports. “Even Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S4 reportedly sold just 9 million units in the winter quarter. If you do the math, that’s less than 12.8 million. LG’s heavily marketed flagship G2 reportedly sold just 2.3 million units in the winter quarter. That indicates that Apple’s mid tier iPhone 5c outsold Samsung’s Galaxy S4 and LG’s G2 put together. ”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Unsurprisingly, the Apple is subject to yet another FUD campaign, this time for iPhone 5c.
As MacDailyNews’ own SteveJack wrote the day iPhone 5s and 5c were unveiled:
It seems to me that Apple is using the iPhone 5c as a tool to push buyers to the 5s (well, at least those buyers who can grasp a simple value equation).
Once Apple gets the customer to the websites or into the stores and the prospective buyer can see and/or hold both phones and learn that they’re only separated by a mere $100, my guess is that Apple figures they’ll have plenty of upsales occurring. Upsales that will boost Apple’s iPhone margins nicely.
Oh, BTW, Apple’s going to sell a boatload of both models (and millions of 4S units too)!
Are you listening, margin-loving Wall Street? – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, September 10, 2013
As we’ve pointed out repeatedly:
According to CIRP, in the days after launch, the iPhone 5c accounted for 27% of iPhone sales vs. 64% for iPhone 5s. In the previous year, also according to CIRP, the iPhone 4s captured 23% vs. 68% for iPhone 5.
How is the 5c a “pretty magnificent flop?” Answer: It’s not. It’s a media concoction. Apple expected a bit more than they got, but that doesn’t mean iPhone 5c is a “pretty magnificent flop” in the grand scheme of things. The iPhone also-rans would kill for iPhone 5c sales. – MacDailyNews
