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Nothing ever indicated Apple would be ‘going down’ in price. A $1000 iPhone was never speculated to be reduced otherwise.
I don’t understand the correlation here. Apple can earn the £10-£20 per month AND the £100-£150 once every four years. It’s not an either/or.
I think for the OLED Pro models they will keep iPhone pricing the same at the bottom tier. However, that bottom tier will move to 128 GB. The LCD R model will likely stay at 64 GB though.
BTW, there is a good chance the Pro models will move to 6 GB, along with their triple-lens cameras. The R would be 4 GB with dual-lens camera.
Furthermore, IDC says that only 16% of existing iPhone users will upgrade in 2019.
BTW, there is a good chance the Pro models will move to 6 GB, along with their triple-lens cameras. The R would be 4 GB with dual-lens camera.
IDC says the average is now four years. Used to be three years.
Furthermore, IDC says that only 16% of existing iPhone users will upgrade in 2019.
lower prices mean they grow their user base.
if they grow their active user base - subscription revenue grows. if market share is stagnant they just sell devices at increasingly low frequency
Isn’t services revenue growing faster than iPhone profits are going down though? A slightly cheaper iPhone isn’t going to make someone get rid of their perfectly good existing iPhone. The new iPhone could be £300 cheaper but I’m still not going to replace my X.
They can with IOS it’s much better than Android! That’s the reason I stick with iPhone.
Despite that most recent spec sheet, I’d still believe all three of this year’s new phones will start at 64GB base. The Pro will not have the 128GB configuration.
My guesses:
Drop the 7 and price reductions in the 8.
iPhone 8: $499/64GB, $669/256GB
iPhone 8 Plus: $649/64GB, $799/256GB
Same prices and configurations as last year.
iPhone 11: $749/64GB, $799/128GB, $899/256GB
iPhone 11 Pro: $999/64GB, $1,149/256GB, $1,349/512GB
iPhone 11 Pro Max: $1,099/64GB, $1,249/256GB, $1,449/512GB
My guesses:
Drop the 7 and price reductions in the 8.
iPhone 8: $499/64GB, $669/256GB
iPhone 8 Plus: $649/64GB, $799/256GB
Same prices and configurations as last year.
iPhone 11: $749/64GB, $799/128GB, $899/256GB
iPhone 11 Pro: $999/64GB, $1,149/256GB, $1,349/512GB
iPhone 11 Pro Max: $1,099/64GB, $1,249/256GB, $1,449/512GB
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I was predicting either 2019 or 2020 for the jump to 128 GB. Here’s hoping for 2019...
Mind you, it’s moot for me in 2019, since I’m not buying this year anyway.
With all this talk about 7 series owners upgrading this year, I had almost forgotten that my 7 Plus is still being sold.
It's nearly 2020, do you think Apple will still sell LCDs and 64 gb memory?
The 128GB makes too much sense to be offered for the Pro models. Let's assume they're still going to be giving us three flavours. One of which is the 512GB for the high rollers. That leaves us with two.
The 64GB will be hardly enough and will be there so they can still call it the $999 iPhone, and it will make us spend more for the 256GB which is too much more than we need. If they give us the 128GB as base, most of us will just pick that and forget about the 256GB.
DefinitelyIt's nearly 2020, do you think Apple will still sell LCDs and 64 gb memory?
Yeah. 64 GB or 128 GB is the sweet spot. Some are fine with 64 GB and others want 128 GB. 256 isn't something that most customers pick. I've heard many people in the Apple Store just randomly say "Who needs 256 GB?" when they looked at the pricing. It's overkill for most. I personally always get 256 GB. I mean the 8 Plus wasn't even available in 128 GB only 64 GB or 256 GB so i had to get 256 GB. I already use more than 64 GB so it made sense.
I would get 256 GB over 64 GB or 128 GB but 512 GB isn't something i can justify.
128/256/512 GB makes sense for the Pro models. For a starting price of 999$ or 1099$ 128 GB is really something Apple should give the customers.
Maybe Apple will do 64 GB / 256 GB / 512 GB for the regular 11. Which sucks for people that just want 128 GB. They don't need 256 GB but are also not ok with 64 GB and they have to pay the huge premium to go from 64 GB to 256 GB. That's like 150 $. Going from 64 to 128 is only 50 $ currently with the Xr and that is really ok. I always recommend people to just pay the extra 50 $ and get 128 GB. 64 GB isn't that much anymore.
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I hope you enjoy your Note 10+, but what you’re saying actually is completely false. And one reason alone, that you’re saying that Apple ‘can’t compete’ with it, they offer five years of iOS updates, when android is two years. So how can you say that in terms of something that has longevity and longer support when your device won’t be performing to the standard that iOS will deliver years ahead of android. (Oh, and that’s just one literal example I provided, there’s more
.)So with the new of the new low priced iPhone taking a page from Google's successful Pixel 3a coming Spring 2020- I think this solves the problem. If priced comparably - in $300 to $400 range it should grow the market for apple and drive services.
The bad news is at best the pro line pricing is just going to have a base storage jump to 128gb so the effective ASP will only drop slightly as fewer are forced to upgrade. At most any price reductions on the line would be 100 bucks and likely no price drop at all. They'll use subsidies /trade ins like last year to boost sales.
The bigger change is I think after next year's launch they'll stop putting out old models at reduced prices and just do
iphone (basic) $300-$400
Then keep the rest of the line the same. I'd still think it'd be smart for them to do just a minor $100 price cut across the line but that seems unlikely as in less than 5-10% chance.