Slashdot Mirror
Apple's iPhones Were the Best-Selling Tech Product of 2017 (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader quotes USA Today:
Once again, the iPhone was the best-selling tech product of 2017, selling more units than the No. 2 through No. 5 products combined. According to Daniel Ives, an analyst with GBH Insights, who compiled the chart for USA TODAY, Apple will sell 223 million iPhones in 2017, up from 211 million phones the previous year... Apple took a risk in introducing three new iPhones for 2017...but all in all, Apple sold more iPhones total, although fewer than the peak year of 2015, when it moved 230 million units. (That was the year of the iPhone 6...)
The global market share for smartphones is dominated by Google's Android system, which owns 85%, compared to 15% for Apple's iOS, according to researcher IDC. But the iPhone is the most popular smartphone brand, having opened a huge gap compared to No. 2 Samsung's Galaxy phones at 33 million. However Samsung, which has a broader portfolio of phones, sells more overall. Indeed, in 2016, Samsung shipped over 320 million phones, most lower-priced phones sold outside the United States, like the J3, On8 and A9 lines.
Apple's strong performance through September earned CEO Tim Cook a $9.3 million bonus on top of his $3.06 million salary -- plus vesting of $89.2 million more in Apple stock. Here's the complete list of the five best-selling tech products of 2017:
The global market share for smartphones is dominated by Google's Android system, which owns 85%, compared to 15% for Apple's iOS, according to researcher IDC. But the iPhone is the most popular smartphone brand, having opened a huge gap compared to No. 2 Samsung's Galaxy phones at 33 million. However Samsung, which has a broader portfolio of phones, sells more overall. Indeed, in 2016, Samsung shipped over 320 million phones, most lower-priced phones sold outside the United States, like the J3, On8 and A9 lines.
Apple's strong performance through September earned CEO Tim Cook a $9.3 million bonus on top of his $3.06 million salary -- plus vesting of $89.2 million more in Apple stock. Here's the complete list of the five best-selling tech products of 2017:
- Apple iPhones: 223 million
- Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8 smartphones: 33 million
- Amazon Echo Dot connected speakers: 24 million
- Apple Watch: 20 million
- Nintendo Switch video game console: 15 million
When Bitcoin is just a distant memory of passed fads like Talking Elmo or Furbies, Apple stock will still be paying sweet dividends.
Where are people getting the money to buy these every year?
Apple sold 223 million phones. Android has zillions of manufacturers, which eclipses anything Apple did. 85% of the smartphone market, is Android.
Let the kvetching about replacable batteries and walled gardens commence!
Maybe they're working on partial data from the vendors, but those entirely arbitrary groupings of specific products, closely related products, and entire product ranges make this pretty a meaningless apples to oranges comparison. The figure of 223m is for all models of iPhone, e.g. every model of phone Apple makes (albeit unclear if they mean just the three models released in 2017 or older models too), yet the figure for Samsung is for one pair of related models out of many other ranges, most of which are part of the Galaxy line which they then go on to state is more popular than the iPhone, and the other three products on the list are specific models, albeit with some different bundle and style options.
You can't even say it's done that way to turn it into a pro-Apple fluff piece because there's no way that those 223m iPhones Apple shipped can't end up with them having the most popular individual product of 2017 (almost certainly the iPhone 8) when broken down to that level.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
I think the real news here is that the Apple Watch made the list. Who the heck buys those things?
And also slowing down old phones to make you buy another.
Which is cheaper: $29 battery replacement, or new iPhone.
HMMMMM.
Meanwhile on Android instead of slowing down the phones or offering cheap battery replacements, you just get to have a phone that has half the battery life after a few years. Sounds VASTLY MORE AWESOME.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Maybe they think they can ride out the iPhone popularity wave instead of dealing with the iOS unicode character changes.
â()â
So how is this possible?
This site shows ALL Samsung phones shipments, which easily is 240 million. https://www.statista.com/stati...
Why will he die in prison? Paul
The $29 offer is for the phones they've been throttling
So in other words the other models all work the same as Android phones where the actual battery life you get each day gets worse.
So then what is the problem with Apple offering this plan only for the phones with the "flaw", unless the flaw is actually a better idea from the start and you just refuse to admit it.
And you have to either send it in or make an appointment and bring it in
Or buy a battery online... but taking it in takes about an hour and you can wander around the mall while you wait.
, which Apple users do more frequently than Android ones.
[citation needed] I see Apple phone owners using them for lots longer than most Android phone owners, because they get updates and support vastly longer than most Android phones do.
In particular you utterly misread your article, which says:
Americans now take an average of 29 months to upgrade their cell phone
That's Apple *and* Samsung
The 22 months they talk about in the second half of your quoted segment relates to the 22 months ALL CELL PHONES used to be upgraded by (because of carrier plans). And the article says overall those upgrade times are increasing for Apple and Samsung.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yes, more money to everyone! It's like magic.
In reality, the sick and the poor will be footing the bill. You'll be just as unhappy as you were a few weeks ago with your new phone in your hand, while a massive number of people every day will suffer from treatable and preventable diseases, or end up in some social hole they are unable to dig themselves out of because the republicans will cut medicaid and social security.
Isn't it amazng that a product that is complained about so much here still sells so well? Apple must do something good. But what is it?
-- Cheers!
Anyone else notice, the fact that a huge percentage of posts by apple fans in apple topics are about things that apple will NEVER ever do (like an Upgradable Mini, stop making things thin just because, headphone jacks, etc) just shows how little Apple actually gives a crap now what their customers actually want.
This is a pure sign that company is doomed if you ask me. I believe that I have purchased my last iphone when my 6s is done, and I have purchased my last Mac when my current iMac is done.
I like MacOS but I am done waiting for a decent new mac or mini with an upgradable video card, easily accessed drive expansion, and some decent standard ports, and I am going to build a kick ass windows box in 2018, and start migrating my family to it.
I also like iOS, but the next phones purchased for this family of 5 that we buy will have replaceable batteries, cases and phone bodies are not purposely fragile as **** to sell more, headphone jacks, sd card slots, and usb based charging port. If there is an apple phone that meets those needs great, if not then something else will be purchased.
It is shocking when you think about how deaf and dumb the people at Apple have become.
That's hilarious. The poor barely pay taxes as it is, they're not footing anything. They're just not getting much back since they don't put much in in the first place. Nice try.