Apple’s new iPhone 14 series reserves the best features for the high-end iPhoen 14 Pro and flagship iPhone 14 Pro Max which start at 1,000. And, based on preorder data, Apple’s strategy is already working with its deep-pocketed consumers, who have turned the most expensive new iPhone into the most popular version.
Though overall spending on mobile devices and computers is slowing this year, there’s still an appetite for top-tier smartphones — Apple’s strength. That’s allowed the company to hold production steady at a time when much of the industry is scaling back plans.
“The data continues to point to robust demand for the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, which could have a materially positive impact for both mix and margins,” Amit Daryanani, an analyst at Evercore ISI, said in a report this week.
The preorder data suggests the iPhone 14 Pro Max is more in demand than the same model was last year, part of the shift upscale, according to a report by KGI Securities.
In China, both a manufacturing hub for Apple and a key market, smartphone sales have tumbled this year. But Apple shipments are up 5% compared with an overall decline of 23%, according to Evercore ISI’s Daryanani. “Apple continues to gain significant share in China and we expect the share gains to continue,” he said.
MacDailyNews Take: As we just wrote yesterday, it’s the peddlers of crappy Android dreck who’ll be the worst affected by rampant inflation and recession, not Apple.
Real iPhones vs. Poor Man’s iPhones. Same as it ever was. — MacDailyNews, April 22, 2022
The bottom line: Those who settle for Android devices are not equal to iOS users. The fact is that iOS users are worth significantly more than Android settlers to developers, advertisers, third-party accessory makers (speakers, cases, chargers, cables, etc.), vehicle makers, musicians, TV show producers, movie producers, book authors, carriers, retailers, podcasters… The list goes on and on.
The quality of the customer matters. A lot.
Facile “analyses” that look only at market (unit) share, equating one Android settler to one iOS user, make a fatal error by incorrectly equating users of each platform one-to-one.
When it comes to mobile operating systems, all users are simply not equal. – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, November 15, 2014
Android is pushed to users who are, in general:
a) confused about why they should be choosing an iPhone over an inferior knockoff and therefore might be less prone to understand/explore their devices’ capabilities or trust their devices with credit card info for shopping; and/or
b) enticed with “Buy One Get One Free,” “Buy One, Get Two or More Free,” or similar ($100 Gift Cards with Purchase) offers.
Neither type of customer is the cream of the crop when it comes to successful engagement or coveted demographics; closer to the bottom of the barrel than the top, in fact. Android can be widespread and still demographically inferior precisely because of the way in which and to whom Android devices are marketed. Unending BOGO promos attract a seemingly unending stream of cheapskate freetards just as inane, pointless TV commercials about robots or blasting holes in concrete walls attract meatheads and dullards, not exactly the best demographics unless you’re peddling muscle building powders or grease monkey overalls.
Google made a crucial mistake: They gave away Android to “partners” who pushed and continue to push the product into the hands of the exact opposite type of user that Google needs for Android to truly thrive. Hence, Android is a backwater of second-rate, or worse, app versions that are only downloaded when free or ad-supported – but the Android user is notoriously cheap, so the ads don’t sell for much because they don’t work very well. You’d have guessed that Google would have understood this, but you’d have guessed wrong.
Google built a platform that depends heavily on advertising support, but sold it to the very type of customer who’s the least likely to patronize ads.
iOS users are the ones who buy apps, so developers focus on iOS users. iOS users buy products, so accessory makers focus on iOS users. iOS users have money and the proven will to spend it, so vehicle makers focus on iOS users. Etcetera. Android can have the Hee Haw demographic. Apple doesn’t want it or need it; it’s far more trouble than it’s worth. – MacDailyNews, November 26, 2012
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Or another way of saying it, Apple counting on people with Silver Spoons born in their mouths to afford their thousand dollar phone AND handle Joe Biden’s inflationary economy together that is wrecking havoc on people’s budgets.
It’s no longer “Let’s Go Brandon”. Now, it’s “Just Go Brandon”!
Actually, Apple is counting on the intelligent people – those who understand the concept of value vs. cost – and, so far, this has paid off handsomely. “Silver spoons” have nothing to do with it; one does not have to be BORN wealthy to manage one’s money, and purchases, intelligently.
LOL! You can’t manage money if you haven’t got it to start with! My way around it was to exchange an old Logic Pro manual for a 4S; it still does its intended job perfectly, i.e. making and receiving phone calls. I think Apple relies mostly on people who just want the latest, even if they don’t know 1/2 the features of their last 3 phones; that’s why they get upset if the new one isn’t visibly different.
My way around it was to work my heinie off and save like a demon. Sorry if that’s too profound a concept for you. LOL
“Silver Spoons” have most EVERYTHING to do with it. They HAVE THE MONEY built in for generations and so do the business associates, offspring, relatives and friends. Working people also have the money if they apply themselves and succeed in the rat race. Poor people are another story as @DG smartly put it, not a question of managing what you don’t have…
⬆️. Behold the typical lefty nut job. They’d rather see their illegitimate party win everything to complete the stranglehold on our system, our economy, our freedoms, et al rather than accept what works, and has worked in the past. Talk about delusional. Political parties should never have been permitted in this country and Thomas Jefferson told us so. He said it would destroy us because wins for the parties would override the common needs and goals of the American citizenry.
So, Citizen, you’d prefer to have no political parties and rather have a conservative nutjob despot as King of America?
No democracy, no rights, no freedoms?
That sounds like the perfect place to live, similar to North Korea.