Comments on: Apple’s Schiller: Don’t hold your breath for a cheap iPhone

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:51:00 +0000

Apple hasn’t had American jobs to give away in years.

By: Apple Pie

Apple Pie — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 07:43:00 +0000

Sure it will do nothing after an extensive play, cause it’s a stable and very well customized OS, while Android will add the joyous lags and bugs, are these what are you missing on iOS ?
Cause yes, children don’t like lags and bugs, they love to enjoy the good playing.

—Just sharing my thoughts on your opinion—

By: pepee63

pepee63 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:34:00 +0000

Because, after an extensive play with a couple, it feels like something you would give a child. It does nothing. Just my opinion.

By: BillyBob

BillyBob — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:25:00 +0000

6 feet, without the Jobsian Reality Distortion Field ™ is 1.83 meters. This is not a “little taller” than 2 meters, nor is it more, nor greater, nor above. Also, I have no idea where you got 6 feet from – I’ve never seen any iPhone survive a *6ft* drop test.

By: Apple Pie

Apple Pie — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:18:00 +0000

Why?
Is it cause your breath is lagging, fagdroid?

By: BillyBob

BillyBob — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:23:00 +0000

Wow, are you in for a rude awakening. Google “iPhone BOM” – it’s barely a few dollars more than other flagship phones. It’s just the markup that Apple charge that is so impressive, innovative and extramazolutioning.
In terms of dropping the thing – I think you have it wrong, iPhone 5 *maybe*, but the others? sheaaa, right!

By: s2weden2000

s2weden2000 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:06:00 +0000

allready a “cheap” phone

By: jimrebello

jimrebello — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:36:00 +0000

There are these newfangled things called cases, you know.

By: AmiRami

AmiRami — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:38:00 +0000

On the one hand i’m not surprised they are saying this. On the other hand, they said don’t hold your breath for an iPad mini or a 4 ” iphone either. I’ll let market trends tell me when I should expect this, not Apple.

By: starstream

starstream — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:26:00 +0000

If an iPad mini + cellular can sell for $459 so can an iPhone. i don’t care if my broken iPhone screen is retina or not, i’d rather replace it, and not worry about dropping again. a high price don’t add value, or make it more desirable, it’s a tool not a fashion accessory, i think the Mac line is great value, not including MacPro, and feel good about throwing money Apple when upgrading, but for something that is dropped, used in the rain/snow where i live that accounts for 8-9 months a year, it just gives me headaches.

as much as i love iPhones im tired of replacing them, in our little household of 4, we have gone through 9 iPhones since launch…

I don’t need taggy glass on the back of my phone, i’d rather have something esthetic, in any material that can’t shatter no matter how often i drop it.

The only features i would value as worth more in an iPhone would be 3D and E-Sense tactile feedback, the extra MHz and pixels i can do without, my thumbs cover most of them anyway

By: Stranger

Stranger — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:14:00 +0000

The entire reason the iPhone is expensive is because of the materials they use to manufacture the case of the damn thing. People forget that the iPhone can be dropped onto a concrete floor from a height of 6 feet (a little taller than 2 meters) and still run and no cracks on the screen.

By: highflyingbull

highflyingbull — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:54:00 +0000

cheaper but still not cheap, i guess thats what it comes down to the rumored iphone.

By: MediaCritiquer.com

MediaCritiquer.com — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:36:00 +0000

The idea of a cheaper iPhone was arguably/obviously contrary to the core principles/business model of Apple. And yet, the media ran with it for a couple of days until Apple state the obvious: FALSE.

By: Matt Sokolinski

Matt Sokolinski — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:02:00 +0000

Slash gear typical apple fanboys . if you’re telling me that iPad mini isn’t smaller iPad 2 than I don’t know what I is

By: UncleFan

UncleFan — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:55:00 +0000

Schiller’s strategy for the developing market is to give them all our jobs, then they can afford to buy iPhones while the American working class starves to death.

By: zeth006

zeth006 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:07:00 +0000

I’m sure Apple’s management has entertained the idea, but I’m skeptical it’ll ever happen. They can save on advertising and distribution costs by just continuing to sell the 4S and the 3GS at lower prices. No need to chase after a market it already has a spot in unless it wants to start selling plastic unlocked iPhones for $350 which would have very low margins up front. They wouldn’t do this without a guarantee they could recoup those lost margins from their apps store. They’d actually be following Google’s cue by doing so as Google does exactly that with its Nexus line.

It’s never been in their DNA to compete for the lower-end market, at least not until recently. Even then, the price discount you see going from the higher end to lower end items as seen in the Macbook Air and the iPad weren’t all that great. Of course, one could point to the way the iPhone is being offered to prepaid markets as a counterexample or at least an indicator of a new trend.

Time will tell.

By: pepee63

pepee63 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:27:00 +0000

I don’t hold my breath over any iPhone.