Honestly.. I really liked iPhone5.. I am yet to get my hands on it completely.. but.. but... buttttt....
I think, it is great phone and really nice to have it.. however, other than slightly bigger screen and slightly smaller footprint.. mostly.. I don't feel that it is providing me something really great value add as compared to iPhone4S. Honestly.. I am and I can say about many folks.. are upgrading mainly because they are due for upgrade and it is almost foolishness, not to upgrade your iphone 4 or 4S when you can still sell them and recover your down payment for iPhone5 for ATT.
Off course, like any new product from Apple, it also feels really good.. that satisfaction of holding latest and greatest from Apple is another thing..
Bottom line.. expectation was more.. there is no feature in there which will really excite you as compared to iPhone4S. Good to have super fast LTE network card in it. but.. only if it works (for now).. I will be more than happy if I can get even full 3G speed on ATT network..
for next release of iPhone.. whether apple calls it 5S or 6.. they definitely need some quantum leap.. at least one solid feature which works flawless and makes me really exciting.. iPhone5 is more of aesthetic leap.. though that doesn't mean iPhone4S looks ugly or bad.. I still love my iPhone4S. Traditionally, I am bigger fan of their "S" series of phones as they tend to be much better in terms of core phone performance and their new release is more focussed on non-core-phone features but usually they do mess up with core-phone features.. for example on core phone features basis.. 3GS was or is still better than iPhone4..
However, I hope that iPhone 5 is better or at least same as iPhone4S for core phone features.. So far reviews about its core phone features are better and that make me think that it is more of iPhone 4GS phone with bigger screen..
Now that, 5 is out.. let us see what do we get for 5S or 6!!! hope to have some quantum leap over there..
“There are potentially millions of iPhones in transit as we speak,” he said. “Demand still exceeds supply, and supply will ultimately catch up.”
Apple could still be proud of its performance, having broken its comparable record of 4 million iPhone 4Ss sold last year during its first weekend on sale. And once customers get their hands on their pre-ordered units in the coming weeks, that sales number, of course, could skyrocket.
Shortages have hit Apple partners in the past, but the disparity seems more pronounced this time.
Apple spokeswoman Trudy Miller declined to comment beyond the company’s news release Monday and referred calls about the plant closing in China to Foxconn, which did not immediately reply to an interview request. News reports about the disturbance and the plant’s shutdown were sketchy. Wire service reports said that early Monday morning, some 5,000 Chinese police responded to one of Foxconn’s largest plants after a brawl involving more than 2,000 workers broke out.
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/ patmaymerc.
I think, it is great phone and really nice to have it.. however, other than slightly bigger screen and slightly smaller footprint.. mostly.. I don't feel that it is providing me something really great value add as compared to iPhone4S. Honestly.. I am and I can say about many folks.. are upgrading mainly because they are due for upgrade and it is almost foolishness, not to upgrade your iphone 4 or 4S when you can still sell them and recover your down payment for iPhone5 for ATT.
Off course, like any new product from Apple, it also feels really good.. that satisfaction of holding latest and greatest from Apple is another thing..
Bottom line.. expectation was more.. there is no feature in there which will really excite you as compared to iPhone4S. Good to have super fast LTE network card in it. but.. only if it works (for now).. I will be more than happy if I can get even full 3G speed on ATT network..
for next release of iPhone.. whether apple calls it 5S or 6.. they definitely need some quantum leap.. at least one solid feature which works flawless and makes me really exciting.. iPhone5 is more of aesthetic leap.. though that doesn't mean iPhone4S looks ugly or bad.. I still love my iPhone4S. Traditionally, I am bigger fan of their "S" series of phones as they tend to be much better in terms of core phone performance and their new release is more focussed on non-core-phone features but usually they do mess up with core-phone features.. for example on core phone features basis.. 3GS was or is still better than iPhone4..
However, I hope that iPhone 5 is better or at least same as iPhone4S for core phone features.. So far reviews about its core phone features are better and that make me think that it is more of iPhone 4GS phone with bigger screen..
Now that, 5 is out.. let us see what do we get for 5S or 6!!! hope to have some quantum leap over there..
5 MILLION SOLD
Apple’s sales record doesn’t sway investors
Stock falls 1.3 percent as company wrestles with iPhone 5 supply issues
By Patrick May
pmay@mercurynews.com
Poor Apple.
Instead of selling as many as 10 million iPhone 5s over the opening weekend, as some analysts had predicted, it wrestled with supply shortages and unloaded a measly 5 million. And even though that beat its previous record of 4 million iPhone 4S handsets sold during that device’s launch weekend last year, investors still gave the Cupertino tech giant a swift kick in the rear, pulling down its stock price by 1.3 percent in trading Monday.
Meanwhile, users and reviewers kept griping about quirks in the new phone’s Apple Maps that replaced the Google Maps, while rumors floated online saying Apple has been trying to poach Google’s map experts to help them out. Oh yeah, and a Foxconn factory that supplies Apple parts was shut down Monday by cops in China after workers rioted for an undisclosed reason. Still, Apple remained upbeat, even as investors worried that supply shortfalls might hurt the company’s efforts to outpace rivals making handsets that use Google’s Android software. Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a news release, asked everyone for patience and said the company is “working hard to build enough iPhone 5s for everyone.” But clearly Apple is struggling to meet the crushing demand for its new phone. After pushing back an initial September delivery date for those who pre-ordered the iPhone 5 online, Apple said Monday it had run out of its initial supply, and many pre-orders were now scheduled to go out instead in October. And some retail chains that sell the phone said they’d not received nearly enough to meet either the pre-order or in-store demand. In a note to investors, analyst William Power with Baird Equity Research said, “We believe that sales could have potentially been much higher if not for supply constraints.” Other analysts, however, said Apple would be just fine, despite a particularly nasty case of supplychain indigestion. Even though Brian Marshall with ISI Group had anticipated initial sales of 6 million to 8 million iPhone 5s, he said Monday that the 5 million number did not give an accurate picture of what was really happening because Apple doesn’t count preorder sales until customers have actually received their phones.
Apple’s sales record doesn’t sway investors
Stock falls 1.3 percent as company wrestles with iPhone 5 supply issues
By Patrick May
pmay@mercurynews.com
Poor Apple.
Instead of selling as many as 10 million iPhone 5s over the opening weekend, as some analysts had predicted, it wrestled with supply shortages and unloaded a measly 5 million. And even though that beat its previous record of 4 million iPhone 4S handsets sold during that device’s launch weekend last year, investors still gave the Cupertino tech giant a swift kick in the rear, pulling down its stock price by 1.3 percent in trading Monday.
Meanwhile, users and reviewers kept griping about quirks in the new phone’s Apple Maps that replaced the Google Maps, while rumors floated online saying Apple has been trying to poach Google’s map experts to help them out. Oh yeah, and a Foxconn factory that supplies Apple parts was shut down Monday by cops in China after workers rioted for an undisclosed reason. Still, Apple remained upbeat, even as investors worried that supply shortfalls might hurt the company’s efforts to outpace rivals making handsets that use Google’s Android software. Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a news release, asked everyone for patience and said the company is “working hard to build enough iPhone 5s for everyone.” But clearly Apple is struggling to meet the crushing demand for its new phone. After pushing back an initial September delivery date for those who pre-ordered the iPhone 5 online, Apple said Monday it had run out of its initial supply, and many pre-orders were now scheduled to go out instead in October. And some retail chains that sell the phone said they’d not received nearly enough to meet either the pre-order or in-store demand. In a note to investors, analyst William Power with Baird Equity Research said, “We believe that sales could have potentially been much higher if not for supply constraints.” Other analysts, however, said Apple would be just fine, despite a particularly nasty case of supplychain indigestion. Even though Brian Marshall with ISI Group had anticipated initial sales of 6 million to 8 million iPhone 5s, he said Monday that the 5 million number did not give an accurate picture of what was really happening because Apple doesn’t count preorder sales until customers have actually received their phones.
“There are potentially millions of iPhones in transit as we speak,” he said. “Demand still exceeds supply, and supply will ultimately catch up.”
Apple could still be proud of its performance, having broken its comparable record of 4 million iPhone 4Ss sold last year during its first weekend on sale. And once customers get their hands on their pre-ordered units in the coming weeks, that sales number, of course, could skyrocket.
Shortages have hit Apple partners in the past, but the disparity seems more pronounced this time.
Apple spokeswoman Trudy Miller declined to comment beyond the company’s news release Monday and referred calls about the plant closing in China to Foxconn, which did not immediately reply to an interview request. News reports about the disturbance and the plant’s shutdown were sketchy. Wire service reports said that early Monday morning, some 5,000 Chinese police responded to one of Foxconn’s largest plants after a brawl involving more than 2,000 workers broke out.
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/ patmaymerc.
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