35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen 566
judgecorp writes "Apple's iPhone 5 is not announced yet, but 35 percent of consumers say they will buy it, when it comes out, even though they know nothing about it. The figure comes from an online survey of 3,000 US consumers by Experian's PriceGrabber shopping website."
It's not really "unseen" (Score:4, Informative)
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They're probably people like me who own the 3gs (or older), still had time too much time on their plans (or who thought the 4 didn't quite justify an upgrade), and believe the next one is likely a good time to step up.
I'm out of my current plan and my next one will be either an Android or an iPhone. For a variety of well-considered reasons, I'm leaning towards an iPhone, but I know how the markets work for Apple products and accessories. I'd just as soon wait two months for the next rev to come out before I switch.
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On the flip side are people like me...I got a 4 right when it came out and have been very happy with it. I don't really see a compelling reason to upgrade to the 5 - I'm happy with the camera and video capabilities, I'm happy with the speed and functionality, I'm happy with the screen resolution, I don't care about LTE (I mostly use the phone on wifi in any case - I work at a university, so it's ubiquitous both at work and at home), and I don't have any desire to use NFC. I really can't imagine what feat
Consumers are stupid and driven by marketing (Score:3)
This is news? Coming up next you'll tell us that a new study predicts the Sun will continue to rise in the East?
35% of what? (Score:5, Insightful)
35% of people who visit the Apple website on a daily basis? 35% of people who registered for some random website through their iPhone?
Seems like an awfully high percentage for just a regular average consumer survey.
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and I'm pretty sure that's 28% OF SMARTPHONES, not "all consomers".
The hype machine is running full throttle.
Just like every 3rd story about how the freaking ghost town of G+ is killing Facebook and Twitter.
There are a lot of people like this: (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg [youtube.com]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg [youtube.com]
HAHAHAHAHA. Best. Video. EVAR. (and I'm an iPhone user)
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Yeah, that was hilarious.
Yes, I'm also an iPhone user.
Yes, I'm going to buy a 5, not matter what. I'm currently on an ORIGINAL iphone. I need a new phone. I also have a Galaxy S, and it's shit. No, not 'Tha Shiit' but, like a piece of shit. Don't like it. Don't like the seemingly empty android market place. Don't like the the fact that if I use half the features on it my battery is dead in 12 hours.
So yes. I haven't seen a iP5 but I sure as hell am going to be getting one.
3000 consumers (Score:3)
By "3000 consumers", do they mean 3000 Apple consumers that just bought the IPhone 4 on that site by any chance?
Because I really doubt that 35% of "consumers" in general plan to buy a new phone, not to speak of a certain Apple phone...
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I wonder how many (Score:2)
of those 35% would put down money now - sight unseen - for it, as opposed to just saying that they "will" buy it.
Also, the article does not say where the survey took place - if it were on, and linked to by, a Mac user site, it's perhaps unsurprising that the result is what it is.
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I would if I got some sort of pre-order discount. I mean it's unlikely that the 5 could be a downgrade or worse than the 4. So if you were planning on upgrading why not?
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Considering the 4 had some well-publicized problems the 3 didn't (whether or not you consider those problems significant in your own case), is your statement based on a belief that lightning can't strike the same place twice?
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I mean it's unlikely that the 5 could be a downgrade or worse than the 4.
Yeah, just like it's unlikely that Mac OS X Server 10.7 (Lion) would be a downgrade or worse than Mac OS X Server 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
Oh, wait...
Hear me now and believe me later... (Score:2)
Apple marketing department (Score:4, Informative)
Apple fanboi: Yes please
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Apple marketing department: Bend over ... this will be a pleasant surprise
Apple fanboi: Yes please
The next day...
Slashdot: More Malicious Android Apps Pulled from MarketPlace
Android Fanboy: At least list which ones!! Oh, and.. uh.. we should do damage control. At least we're free to bypass the store to download these apps!
Fanboys are stupid, faces on stun.
Re:Apple marketing department (Score:4, Insightful)
It isn't as much that we follow and bend to Fanboism from Apples marketing department. It is more the fact we really haven't had any real negative experience with Apple products vs. Other companies...
I have had some products and phones in the past that after I used them I put on my list not to use that company again, unless they have really changed their way...
Motorola, Compaq/HP, Gateway, Chrysler, GE Appliances...
Then there are companies that I have had overall good experiences with.
LG, Samsung, Apple, Toyota, Lenovo...
So I would buy from them again without having such a critical eye.
Now it is up to those companies that I had good experience with to prove me wrong. And the ones I have a bad experience with they really need to prove that they are much better then before.
Apple has consistently offered a quality product which I have been happy with, and was useful. Not to say Apple product was the best product but it is a safe bet that I will be happy with it.
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I guess you never bought Apple products in the 90s 0 the Gil Amelio days before Jobs came back. OS 6-9 made Windows ME look like perfection.
iPhone as a gift (Score:2)
Moreover, 69 percent of consumers indicated that they would prefer Apple’s iPhone 5 as a gift.
So jewelery and watches are replaced by iPhone. Buyers do not care about how many megapixels has iPhone5 camera, which OS is installed, 3G or 4G... It's just important to have the Apple logo on the device.
You just don't get it (Score:2)
if you think the right way to pick a phone is to add up all the numbered features and then take the phone with the highest total.
Apple customers really don't care about the logo, they care that it is a solidly engineered appliance.
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They care only about the logo.
The brand has value (Score:2)
because there is now quite a bit of historical evidence of Apple building high-quality, well-engineered products. I can understand why that would be perplexing to you (a) don't mind fiddling with technology to get it to work, and (b) don't understand technology well enough to appreciate good engineering.
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Style is important, most geeks do not comprehend that. Sure the tech specs are good, but it comes down to, Do I have a device that make me look professional or a cheap plastic toy that makes me look like I am still a teenager.
Oblig. Futurama (Score:2)
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
No big surprise... (Score:3)
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All the android people come out screaming about all their advanced features and how they're always ahead of apple. But what they don't do is come out screaming about the high quality of their phones. I've got an ORIGINAL iphone. My wife has a 4. I also have a company supplied Galaxy S, and we've both had blackberries. As far as features, the android phones always win. As for quality, dependability, stability, etc the iphones always win. Blackberry used to have that wrapped up, but they've fallen beh
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Self-selected sample (Score:3)
I'm surprised that the percentage wasn't higher.
Worthless data? (Score:2)
I'm a 35%-er (Score:3)
I'm one of the folks who's probably going to buy it sight unseen. I could care less about if someone else things I'm affluent because I have an iPhone 5, or if I'm "trendy" because of it, or anything else. And just because it's got an Apple logo in the middle of the back doesn't mean it's worth it's weight in gold either.
I'm still using a 3GS, and after two years it's starting to get a little beaten up - the screen isn't cracked or deeply scratched, but it's got a few pits here and there, etc. I was going to upgrade to a 4, but I decided to skip a generation since we're so close to the release of the 5. And, since once of the reasons I wanted the 4 was a improvement in the camera over the 3GS (which I use a lot), I figure the 5's camera will more likely than not be slightly better.
Which brings me to the question: how may of of the 35% mentioned are people who decided to skip a generation because there wasn't a compelling reason to upgrade to a 4, but about the time the 5 rolls around their 3G or 3GS is due for a replacement?
Its inevitable (Score:2)
We've passed the tipping point [slashdot.org].
iPhone 6b (Score:2)
They should rename it to iPhone 6 a month after launch. A lot of people would buy it again.
I call on all moderators to mod down the hate (Score:5, Insightful)
Okay this is just bullshit. First, this is not news for nerds, this is news for:
1) Apple Fanbois to thump their chest on
2) Android Fanbois to fires of their hatred of anything Apple
3) Business Marketroids, who are most definitely not nerds
Obviously I have to start voting with my eyeballs and look to some other site for quality news. There's nothing of substance in an article like this, it's just flamebait for all the Apple-Android flame wars.
But just to answer all three groups and point out my utter annoyance with all of them:
1) Just because you are popular doesn't mean you have the best product. Doesn't mean you don't, but "everyone else is buying it" is a top fallacy that everyone needs to stop using as a badge of honor. /rant
2) I love how you point out 35% of people are [stupid/easy to fool/lambs to the slaughter/insert overdone cliche] and then out of the other side of your mouth point out how Android phones are more popular in volume than Apple phones. To those of you who do, see #1 and stop thinking you are somehow better than Apple fanbois because you are not, you are 100% just like them.
3) You are not nerds, get off this site so the nerds can mod these stories into oblivion.
It's Time (Score:3)
Many, many moons ago (see my UID), this was a site founded about open source (with emphasis on Linux), science, and technology (with emphasis on IT). It was good, and attracted many interesting and smart people. The articles weren't always the best, but you could read comments from people who were knowledgeable in their field, and learn about really cool things you otherwise would never hear about.
But then, MS started to astroturf, and with popularity came misinformed bigots and those ignorant of science an
That's misleading, yes? (Score:5, Insightful)
No. Not 35% of consumers. 35% of people who filled out the survey. There is no qualification of the sample in the article. Who knows how they were chosen?
35% seems shockingly high. Shockingly convenient for a who-the-heck-are-you website that could really get attention.
There's a big difference between saying it... (Score:3)
... and actually doing it. How many of those 35% that responded will actually go out and buy one as soon as it comes out? Not many I'd suspect, even if only because most will still be bound by contracts etc.
I'm in the 35% (Score:3)
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No, they still might end up wanting it: they just might want to know something about it first. I'm one of that 65%.
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I've seen my friends' iPHone 4s and I like those...so, guessing the 5 will be a least as good as the 4s, and I want that...
Also, guessing they've at least made improvements in the antenna problem, and from what I read, it should likely have a dual core process in it, so there are other reason to want it "sight unseen".
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Kinda my theory too. Unless the 5 is a worse device than the 4 (which seems unlikely), I probably want one to replace my 3GS. I'm still not going to say sight unseen that I want one though. I like my 3GS, and I like my wife's 4, so it seem reasonable that I'll like the 5... but "seems reasonable" doesn't make phone calls.
Re:This also means... (Score:4, Funny)
So you're basically looking for a new device to continue your meaningless, consumer-driven lives?
Certainly. It's the patriotic thing to do.
Why do you hate America?
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Who wouldn't prefer anything as a gift? If they end up liking it better than what they've got, they keep it; if not, they return it with the receipt.
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The figure comes from an online survey of 3,000 US consumers
No, it means that out of 3,000 people with lots of free time, and probably bored of playing Angry Birds, about a thousand went online to eagerly answer a survey to waste more time.
Furthermore, it's very likely that people answered the survey attracted by a sweepstake that offer them the chance of winning a free iProduct.
I'm waiting for it (Score:2)
I think the 35% is actually more likely, people who have loved the phones that have come out, their plan contract is completed, and they're waiting for the iPhone 5, to upgrade.
I know I'm in that boat, as are ~5 of my friends. We've all had them before, and we're waiting to upgrade. We don't want a 4, because then we'll be stuck with it, while the 5 is just around the corner. Which would be annoying. I've liked these phones since the 3, and each model out has been good, so I've nothing to suspect the 5 won'
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Really? I'm a fanboy because I'm confident that the device will be something I want based on my experience with the first couple I've owned?
Yea, I guess I am.
I need a new phone, my current one is a iPhone 3G ( not 3GS) that is physically broken in multiple ways. I would have bought an iPhone 4, but the next one is right around the corner and so far, the new releases have always been wanted so it seems logical to wait for the next model at this point since my current on is 3 years old ... I don't want to s
We already know quite a bit (Score:2)
Choosing to buy now isn't completely a blind purchase. It's sure to have the A5 processor, Bluetooth 4 Low Energy and a dual GSM/CDMA chip. Less sure are a bigger camera with dual LED flash and the exact case design that is supposed to be thinner and lighter.
If you like these features, and you're looking to upgrade your iPhone anyway, it's a fairly safe purchase decision. It's certainly not buying in the dark.
Re:This also means... (Score:5, Insightful)
So, that's an assertion, and a biased one at that.
As someone who doesn't own a smart phone, but who knows tons of people who have them ... I'm more inclined to think that these people are exceedingly satisfied with their phones, and expect that a new generation will continue to be more of the same.
I actually don't know a single person who owns an iPhone (or iPod, or iPad) who owns it to "be seen as well off" -- in fact, they own them because of a perceived quality of the product and the overall user experience.
Do you have anything that actually objectively supports the notion that people buying these devices are more concerned with the perceptions of other people than they are of their own perceptions of quality? Because I can tell you for a fact that I like my iPod and my iPad because, in part, I like the consistency of iTunes across these devices ... I sync the same data to these devices using the same tool. (And I've used the Palm Pre my wife's work bought her ... quite frankly, I'm underwhelmed.)
I just don't get this unfounded assertion that everybody with something made by Apple has it as purely a fashion statement. In fact, most of the people I know who own these devices fall into one of two categories: 1) people who aren't technology buffs but want something which 'just works', and 2) people who work with technology but have reached an age where endless fiddling with a device is more of a nuisance and want something which 'just works'. I'm afraid I have no samples from the shallow teenager department as my sample is all from people aged 30+.
Hell, the last time I flew on a plane, the old man in the seat in front of me (easily in his 70s) took out his hearing aid (!), and put in the headphones from his iPhone to listen to music for the flight. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have an iPhone to look trendy or cool.
Why is everybody so wedded to this notion of these products being bought only by hipsters who wish to be seen with one? My observations show me as many people with sore hips have them as any other demographic.
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Total rubbish. I was an anti-iPod cheerleader for years. Must have Ogg Vorbis support, never will support DRM, etc. Chanted the same "freedom or die" nonsense that /. championed. Even bought the nomad, irivers, etc. I hated them all so I eventually caved and bought an iPod.
I then kicked m
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the iPods were never as good as the competition failing to support the same DRM that everybody else supported
It's hilarious that you think that's an argument. Here's a few reasons why:
A) iTunes sold a ton of music during their DRM'ed music days. The other stores would have loved to have their numbers.
B) Nobody sells individually DRM'ed tracks anymore, so this hasn't been a big issue for a little while.
C) If they would have gone with PlaysForSure instead of their own DRM, Microsoft would have had a total monopoly on music DRM.
D) Microsoft themselves abandoned PlaysForSure with the Zune. Hell, they didn't e
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No, it means 35% have a reasonable expectation that the product will be worth buying that they're planning for that purchase now.
Regardless of whether someone's willing to buy a product unseen, if the announcement comes out and it's a dud most of them will quietly back down and not buy one.
This is where I am. I have an iPhone 3GS, and my wife has an iPhone 3G. The iPhone 3GS is decent, but the 3G needs replacement. We're planning on buying an iPhone 5 now, without seeing one. (Possibly two, due to the natur
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... and yet they sell. Perception of a product is very important. People know that iPhones are "good" (enough), they know that everyone and their dog know how to handle them and thus cannot be too complicated to use (whether this is true or not). One final thing that Apple does correctly: restrict choice. That might be counter-intuitive to you, but when you buy an iPhone you know exactly what you get. The only differences consist in how much storage space you have and whether you get the black or the w
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Any company that sells locked phones without having factory unlocked phones available is crap.
Give kudos to Apple here - you can buy an unlocked one without any hacking required. Just click on "buy" on the Apple site or pop into an Apple store.
I'm changing carriers when my contract is up in early August and it's literally just going to be a SIM card change and a number port and I'll be up and running with my existing device and still be contract-free.
The battery issue is somewhat annoying, but I can see wh
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but many people don't care about replacing the battery and they'd rather not have some rickety plastic door on it that pops open all the time.
Those are your only choices with Apple? You either get a non-serviceable battery, or a rickety plastic door that pops open all the time? Why can't Apple design a battery cover that stays attached to the phone like every other manufacturer has managed to do? Is that one of those copy-and-paste things, where Apple will eventually come out with a feature long after everyone else has it and then say they do it "better"?
Every phone blocks signal based on how you hold it--I can understand why that isn't obvious to you but this is a technical website so you probably shouldn't hang out here if you don't care to understand basic RF.
If you're going to be technical, then the phone doesn't block anything, your hand does. B
This website has covered a lot more than GNU/Linux (Score:5, Insightful)
for its entire history--it has covered all manner of technology (closed or not). The PS3/Wii/Xbox are all far more closed platforms than iPhones, and they've all gotten plenty of ink here. The space shuttle program has also gotten a lot of ink, I assume you don't believe that's an open platform, do you?
Re:I think you don't understand technology (Score:4, Insightful)
iphones still cannot do basic smartphone stuff like run arbitrary code.
Except that it can you are a developer. Now it can't run arbitrary code from anywhere but considering how much malware exists for Android, most consumers wouldn't consider that a feature.
why else would they buy a phone that doesn't even have a fucking file manager?
Seriously, are you saying the arcane notion of having to manuallly manipulate files == true smartphone OS? So do you consider only languages where you have micro-manage memory registers like assembly to be "real" programming languages.
the thing with smartphones is 90% people who think they need a smartphone do not need it. they just need voice, text and the web. if you are one of these people, iphone is ideal. if not, there are many true smartphones out there.
So your definition of smartphone isn't the commonly accepted one where users are allowed to do those things. Instead your defintion is one where users have to things they no longer have to do because of something called progress. So in your world do you have to hand crank your car to start it and need to adjust the engine timing otherwise it's not a true car?
Who cares what you call it? (Score:3)
Do you think anybody buys an iPhone because they were tricked into thinking they could do some C++ coding for it right out of the box?
The technology is impressive and well-executed. If it isn't something you want, then don't buy it (there are alternatives). I don't see why you have to shit all over anyone who makes a different value judgement about what they want from a phone.
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no one likes to talk about the weaknesses of the proprietary itunes tether
I must admit that, having moved from Linux to Mac, I have not yet noticed a particular problem - my music files are stored DRM free, even those which I purchase, and they are stored in a flat filesystem, and so can be easily moved around, or accessed by other programs.
I used to sync my iPod with Amarok1.4 / gtkpod, and had no problems with either - each synced the iPod perfectly.
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have you tried syncing with something that's not 5 years old?
Under Linux, no - has support been broken in the newer products?
There seem [ubuntu.com] to be guides [gtkpod.org] available, but I have not tried them.
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Brief listing of a couple things apple have done here. [blogspot.com]
To my knowledge the latest thing they tried was some funky crypto business that as of a year or so ago still hadn't been cracked. No use in buying from a company that is actively fighting against you using their product.
Re:In other words (Score:5, Insightful)
In other words 35% of consumers don't care about the product but the social symbol it is and the status they think it confers on them.
No, in other words Apple has created a good brand that people have come to trust in respect to their next smartphone. But go on hatin' if it makes you feel better that many people choose an iPhone b/c it's a good phone and just as good if not better than many Android handsets.
So you were one of the 35% (Score:3)
choose an iPhone b/c it's a good phone
You've just illustrated the point. The iphone 5 isn't out yet, but you're saying it will be good - simply because that's what you think of the ones that preceded it (all their faults notwithstanding).
Maybe it WILL be a good phone, maybe the designers and marketeers will have learned all the lessons from past mistakes. Until it comes out, nobody knows. Therefore the only people who would buy it sight-unseen and price-unkown and without knowing what the voice/data package will cost appear to be people who p
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Obviously I'm not trying to say that the quality of Apple's products is akin to a physical law, but I am saying
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You do realize that people with older iphones can't upgrade to the newest versions of iOS, right? And that Apple let people with the 3G upgrade to 4.0 and it caused their phones to be almost completely unusable? So it's not exactly like there is no fragmentation on the iPhone.
I won't argue the performance aspect... my roommate had a 3G and it basically became unusable until they came out with later versions, and even then it still wasn't great.
Now, this may be splitting hairs, but the 3G was two years old when iOS 4.0 came out, and the upgrade was still made available, although certain features were held back on that device, likely due to hardware limitations. That's two years of OS updates.
Android 2.2.2 came out in May 2010, and 2.3 came out in December of 2010, 7 months later
Re:In other words (Score:4, Insightful)
Actually it's less interesting then even that. All this says that is a bunch of people are planning to make their next phone an iOS phone, and are waiting until the next generation to do it. Big deal.
My next desktop will be a windows machine, my next laptop probably a mac, my next phone probably android. I don't know exactly what form these will take, these purchases are months if not years off, but if there is a better model/version on the verge of release, I'd probably wait a few months extra for it to come out.
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Which individual Android handset has more marketshare than an individual iPhone model?
Colour me unsurprised that a mobile OS used by many manufacturers making all manner of phones (from cheap crappy ones to expensive excellent ones) has a higher marketshare than a single manufacturer.
Although, if that's the sum total of your argument, then it follows that Windows is better than Linux because it has more marketshare, right? It's just that simple.
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You mean in the same way other handset manufacturer's also told their own user the 'proper' way to hold a phone?
http://member.america.htc.com/download/Web_materials/Manual/HTC_Ozone/Ozone_Users+Manual.pdf [htc.com]
http://member.america.htc.com/download/Web_materials/Manual/DROID_ERIS_Verizon/DROID_ERIS_Verizon_English_UM_11_5.pdf [htc.com]
These types of instructions are common for any phone, smart or otherwise.
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Careful about anti-fanboyism - auto-mockery of what others love, just as blindly. Apple has a good track record as measured by customer satisfaction on their phones, and many people have confidence that that record will continue. My family is rocking two Blackberries, a Nexus S, and two iPhones, and I'll probably replace the iPhone 3GS with an iPhone 5 if it looks decent and provides incremental value. Not an automatic decision. But given the track record, I would probably answer a survey that I'd be interested in buying one. And I'm no fanboy of Apple, having literally thrown a Mac three years ago into the garbage because I hated it so much. Though I will admit my Apple Lisa and Apple ][+ were pretty sweet in the day.
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Sheep will be sheep. The fads will change, but the followers will follow them, whether it's playing Sudoku, wearing dirty jeans, drinking Starbucks, wearing lip gloss, playing World of Warcraft, using Facebook, collecting beanie babies, eating edamame, or buying iPhones.
I'm just surprised the figure isn't higher than 35% - could it be because it's out of many people's price range?
Social symbol? (Score:3, Insightful)
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no, because superior products do not always sell better.
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Personally, I've enjoyed my iPod Touch for the past two years, but I'm getting tired of only having network when I'm within range of a wifi access point. I'd really like the cellular modem. At this point, it seems stupid to get an iPhone because a new one is just around the corner. No, I don't know what's in it, but I'm 99% sure it'll be better than the iPhone 4.
Re:In other words (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, to some extent this covers fanbois and sheeple, but the full 35%.
For example, if included in the survey my wife would be in that 35%. She's looking for a smart phone that will also replace her iPod. She also doesn't get a new phone every other day, so when she does upgrade, she goes to the latest and greatest.
If the iPhone 5 was a year off, she'd just go ahead and get an iPhone 4. But since she expects the 5 in September, she's going to wait.
The potentially faulty assumption she is making is not that having the newest iPhone is a social symbol, but that the new iPhone will be at least as good as the old iPhone.
Why is it so strange or sad folks would want the new iPhone sight unseen? If you felt that way about the first iPhone, yeah then you might be a fanboi. But at this point, we know what the iPhone does, what its weaknesses are, what level of changes we see from one generation to the next.
It's like asking if you'd be interested in dating a supermodel's sister, sight unseen. Not quite the same as asking if you're interested a random woman pulled off the street.
Re:In other words (Score:4, Informative)
It makes me wonder what the percentage is for Windows users and the next version of Windows.
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Slashdot has spent so much time posturing for ad-clicks that lots of people here cannot fathom the possibility that there's a such thing as a satisfied iPhone customer.
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Well, I for one am entirely satisfied with my iPhone 4.
But for the record anyone who says they will buy a product sight unseen, based on nothing but speculation is an idiot!
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It's just a display of confidence. It's not like they plunked their cash down.
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Nobody will actually buy the phone sight unseen, unless they scrupulously avoid every media outlet in the world for the week of release. The problem is (as with so much market research) we don't know exactly what the question was, so we can't draw any sensible conclusions from the results.
For example "69 percent of consumers indicated that they would prefer Appleâ(TM)s iPhone 5 as a gift." - all this means is that 69% of people interpreted this question as meaning 'do you like free stuff'. As for the o
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Saying "I want the next version of this product" is very very far from "i will buy the product, here is the money, i will sign my soul that i wont backpedal even if you just bring me an inferior product than i already have"
So yea, pre-purchases of unannounced products is rather stupid, but thats not what we are talking about here. :)
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and are expecting the next generation to be the same but faster and plain better
You mean like how the new versions of Final Cut Pro and OS X Server are big improvements over their predecessors?
Re:In other words (Score:4, Informative)
and are expecting the next generation to be the same but faster and plain better
You mean like how the new versions of Final Cut Pro and OS X Server are big improvements over their predecessors?
Let's ask someone with a clue: Why we’re betting everything on FCP X [crumplepop.com]
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Brand loyalty tends to be driven by satisfaction. It can work as momentum to get over a batch of bad products, but even that starts dying down if the window of bad quality lasts too long (look at RIM.)
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"1) For plenty of these people, it will be a free upgrade; so why not?"
What planet are you from? AT&T / Verizon and Apple have NEVER given a "free" upgrade ot anything other than the basic phones or out of date ones.
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Nah, everyone knows sheep don't like apples. What you got there is more of an equine species, like a horse or more probably a donkey. A male one.
P.S. Its called a joke, mods and repliers. I feel the need to point this out, which is kinda sad.
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