The new iPhones will create a sales boom, analyst predict 350M sales in 1 year
A new analyst report obtained by 9to5Mac claims that the upcoming trio of iPhones will create a massive wave of upgrades in a 12 to 18 month period. The GBH Insights report points at 350M iPhones sales for that period due to the diversity Apple is going to offer to its customers.
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Last year's iPhones sold well but weren't enough to convince a large number of old iPhone owners to upgrade. That's due to the incremental upgrade the iPhone 8 brought over the iPhone 7 and the high price tag of the iPhone X. So users were either put off by the price of the iPhone X or didn't find a good reason to swap their old iPhones for the 8-series. The same goes for the plus-sized models.
But with the new iPhones bringing a premium plus-sized version, a normal one and a budget (to Apple's standards) handset, more and more users that were holding off until now will be tempted to hop on to the new generation. This will create a wave of new shipments, beating Apple's own records.
China-based users will likely contribute the most, says the report. It is estimated that 100 million iPhone owners are in the country with around 60-70 million of them being overdue for an upgrade or will need one in the next 18 months.
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- TheWhiteWolf
- 03 Sep 2018
- PTi
Only an ignorant will make such assumptions about android..... I have seen lag on an iPhone myself that is not even subjected to the special Apple treatment of slowdown. A 6 month old iPhone 8 at that. Android comes in various price bracket based on ...
- Smuti
- 01 Sep 2018
- puj
My 1+3 fully disagrees. Then again your statement comes from an anonymous troll.
- Anonymous
- 01 Sep 2018
- m%5
Android slows down naturally after as little as 6 months of usage and will continue to slow down to the point of becoming barely usable at around the 2 year mark. While a 4 year old iPhone is pretty much better/faster than 50% of current android prod...