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Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 (www.gsmarena.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (24 children)

I was rocking an iPhone 6. Yes, a 6. My wife had an xs max - two weeks ago she dropped it and it smashed. We went and bought a pair of iPhone 15 pro max phones, fully loaded.

  1. they are ridiculously expensive - over 2k a piece. Most people can’t afford that. What happened to sub $1000 phones?
  2. yes there’s a lot of improvements over the 6. But the 6 still functioned perfectly - albeit a bit slowly
  3. the only improvement I can tell as a user over the xs max is the cameras. They are arguably better. Otherwise it’s the same phone.
  4. the software is nearly identical on all three versions. There’s not many “ooo this one does xyz like this, and that’s an improvement”

Bottom line: there just isn’t a reason to upgrade a phone anymore, unless they break. Sales HAS to go down if the price point stays the same or goes up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If you want a good sub $1000 phone you need to go android.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not even that, the iPhone SE is $430 and is the closest phone they’re claiming to want but then going for the top of the line phone instead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

They said "good". I phones are not my cup of tea, but the she is particularly bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No one says you have to buy a new phone, used iPhones are usually a lot cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

My iPhone 14 Plus was sub $1000 last year. Even an iPhone 15 Plus is sub $1000. And the 15 Pro Max with 1TB of storage from Apple directly is $1599 (this was the most expensive I could find on the Apple site.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No you don't. But also, define "good".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That definition depends on the person, but for me

  1. Works as a phone

  2. Can play my phone games (Blue Archive)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This game?

Looks like iPhones qualify just fine even by your narrow criteria.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It needs to run well without major stutters. Haven't used an iphone since they got rid of the headphone jack. I would imagine anything even remotely modern will be fine.

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