“While iPad mini sales boosted iPad volume numbers at the expense of falling ASPs in 2013, iPhone 6 Plus sold at higher volumes at a much higher ASP. The base model is priced at a $100 premium to the typical price of new iPhones, which were already higher than iPads, despite being smaller devices,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider. ”
“If Apple arbitrarily categorized its iOS sales volumes the way IDC and Gartner historically counted tablets (defining screens larger than 5 inches as “media tablets”), Apple would be reporting steadily higher growth in units, volumes and ASPs for “tablets” while still reporting market leading iPhone sales,” Dilger reports. “iPhone 6 Plus ate up iPad sales the same way iPhones ate into sales of point and shoot cameras: by making “the tablet you have with you” more useful than the more optimized device that gets left at home. In particular, iPhone 6 Plus eroded into the differentiation offered by iPad mini, which was contributing a significant part of iPad unit volumes.
Dilger reports, “Really, rather than having ‘gone missing,’ iPad sales turned into iPhone 6 Plus sales, the same way that iPods didn’t mysteriously ‘go away’ but were instead folded into iPhones the same way.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take:
We’d rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple. — Tim Cook, February 27, 2008
Previously purchased iPads for one.
Suckers are still great.
Original limitations of iOS for people who can’t use an iPad instead of a laptop.
I’ve bought 4 iPads as gifts to kids.
They’ve held up great, but are not customizable enough for young children, so no more.
The little ones are getting Amazon Fire Kids Addition and the older ones will start getting music systems/instruments.
I’m done providing anything that can have FaceBook/Twitter/Snapchat/LookAtMeLookAtMe on it.
People don’t seem to understand the turnover rate will be more like PC turnover rate. The older ones still do most everything the new ones do, and they don’t slow down as much as PCs. I would expect a 5-year or 6-year turnover rather than 2-year like phones have become. Now that there is not the “two year contract”, I would expect phone sales to drop to 3-year. All of this stuff keeps doing what it is supposed to, and the “must have new features” aren’t as frequent as the past.
Longevity: they last too long.
Absolutely.
My iPad 2 is still humming along, though I had to downgrade back to iOS 8 from 9. iOS 9 brought it to a crawl.
Yep! Longevity.
For many of us, the iPad was simply a respite from tiny iPhone screens. Now that we finally have iOS on a larger screen with the portability that no iPad can achieve, the iPhone has once again become the optimal device for our mobile computing needs.
I gave away a perfectly good iPad (original) to a friend so I could buy a new iPad Air. That’s one less future customer for Apple, unfortunately. I guess that’s the down side of making great hardware that lasts so long.
yeah, true,
and then look at what happened to the american automobile industry once they decided to quit building quality cars – they got their clocks cleaned by the japanese for quite a while – until some of them fell victim to the same temptation themownselves.
so i think in the larger scheme of things mr. apple is better served by building long lasting and quality products and letting the analysts bitch about slow sales because the gear lasts too damn long.
My case is a little different.
I have returned to OSX on a Macbook for mobile even if it is heavier and larger.
Their are no practical apps for the kind of work that I do on iOS, and it has a lot more bugs than OSX.
It’s ok if you are a consumer of mostly entertainment content + email, music, video, as opposed to a producer. Otherwise…..No
And its more prone to damage if you drop it. And easier to drop because of the overly slick surface, even if you have a case, it can easily drop out of the case. But thats a lesser issue than the first that I brought up, which is productivity.
Everyone has one, duh. People will replace them at a normal pace. Why are they continuing to expect growth from something that can coast smoothly with a consistent revenue?
As others have said – mine still works fine. Why do I need to replace it? It doesn’t have the improvement rate as the phone – it was already very good. Apple blew it by not making it crappy enough at the beginning – or something.
In my room I have a 15″ MacBook Pro, 5k iMac, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini and the latest Apple TV. I still spend most of my time on iPhone 6 plus. If they add just a couple more features to iMovie and GarageBand on iOS I could see it hitting well over 90%
Original iPad was too heavy, and went to the mini. Back to iPad with Air2 version. Six plus still not big enough for home use of reading books, writing notes or browsing.And iPad still not good enough for serious writing or web design.
Still need all three.
Or until the detachable iPad-laptop comes along. Which Cook has sworn won’t happen. Ever. ‘Cause he’s already damaged Apple enough with half-baked products and OSes. And Apple has always been incremental bottom line since Jobs’ return.
I think the tech is there, though, to have a detachable laptop screen that switches to iPad mode when detached. The connector on iPad Pro pretty much shohttp://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/islamchron.htmls how it could work.
Don’t use hammers to drive in screws. Of course it won’t do writing or web design or any other job you do sitting at a desk. It’s made for work outside the office. Jobs that laptops can’t do, or do well. I know a lot of people here don’t like to hear that, I’m not sure why. You want to expand your web business think of what a iPad can do instead of what it can’t. You can get iPads that have cell and GPS. There are a lot of jobs that need a large screen out in the field. Those companies would pay good money to make their work easier.
Still using an original for navigation, email, calendar, photos, notes, reminders, weather, cooking, Netflix, ebooks.
SInce iOS 5 supported iCloud, it still syncs with everything.
Web browsing, no, that has passed it by. So iPad life is way more than iPhones.
Did some one say ‘ANDROID’? Here’s a new horror to enjoy:
Faux Disk Encryption: Mobile phone crypto not a magic bullet
And sorry fandroids, iOS provides ‘more granular control’
…Daniel Mayer and Drew Suarez debunked some commonly held but inaccurate beliefs about smartphone crypto as well as presenting a comparison between iOS and Android during a presentation at last week’s Black Hat Europe conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. . . .
Suarez explained that the fragmentation of Android creates additional mobile device encryption security risks over and above those found on iOS devices. A targeted device may not be fully patched. In addition, not all the boot processes on Android are signed. This makes it possible to backdoor Android firmware and plant it on a device, given physical access. The same risk does not exist of iPhones and iPads because code is signed. . . .
The loss or theft of a device which grants an attacker physical access might therefore be be used to bypass security controls in order to gain access to application data. The research is far from theoretical. Mayer and Suarez told El Reg that problems with lost smartphones are already causing problems from NCC Group’s clients.
So GOOGLE! What are you going to do to STOP FRAGMANDROID? Anything? Ever?
Android: The Most Insecure Mobile OS On The Planet. Enjoy. 😛
(BTW: Dan Dilger is my brother from a different mother).
Time to use my entire lunch break to read a Daniel Eran Dilger post. Succinct and brief he is not. But I do love reading his stuff. 🙂
——RM