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Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 (www.gsmarena.com)
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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] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why didn't you buy an iPhone SE? I have the 2022 model and it started at $429. I upgraded from an iPhone 6S.

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

The iPhone she sucks though, my mom has one and every part of it (especially the battery) is worse than my cheaper android phone (that's about the same size)

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

Mine permanently lives in a battery case, and I've never had any performance issues. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah it has a good SOC, but "I use a battery bank" is a pretty weak argument. My point wasn't that you should feel bad for having it, just that other ppl should know it isn't good value right now.

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