QUOTE(dikae @ Sep 18 2019, 08:02 PM)
Their sales will still be there, but they have a target and every year they have certain numbers to achieve for every individual products and it’s obvious this year they will not reach anywhere close to the target set for 2019 iPhones, even analysts reported that. Plus the fact that the phone design fail not just for Malaysians but globally, a huge percentages of loyal iPhones users have commented the same about the hideous design, and user opinion matters a lot and hurt their target a lot too.. especially to existing iphone xs/Xs max users the design is a backward downgrade, of course there are still push factors coz it’s a new iphone somewhat it has new features...its a 5k+ phone and most who upgrade their iPhones every year have the budget for it, but this year their budget might go into something else..
On a side note:-
1) bigger ram 4gb [seriously don’t need 4gm ram the phone works good at least for another 2 years, unless u use it for some high end content which not many would)
2) wide angle lens [yes this is one of the main factor for upgrade]
3) night mode [this is not mandatory for a lot of people]
4) larger battery [this is good and also the usb c charging port]
5) powerful A13 [last year’s model is overkill enough]
6) faster face-id [lol]
The few features above vs 5k+ and hideous design? Nope not for me
Haha. to be fair, the biggest ‘mistake’ Apple has made probably is to make such high quality phones even after 5 years, it is still functioning very well and the processing power is still bearable.
Most critical one all the latest Apple iPhones have overpowered SoC which even current flagship android phones are at least 1 to 2 years behind.
The excess of processing power for recent iPhones since iPhone 6s make them having a much longer usable lifespan comparison to older iPhones such as iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4s etc...
This is the main reason why until now there are still people using 6/6 plus which included me becos they are still ‘usable’ if one is doing normal tasks.
It is a trend that people are using the phones for longer than previously and this is a global trend. not only iPhones affected to be fair.
Nowadays people will be more attracted to change iPhones only when the time there is major overhaul in design such as iPhone 6/6+, iPhone X... Becos with design change, changing a new phones has extra value which one can ‘show off’ the new phones.