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2012-10-02 03:43 28004810 Anonymous (iphone-sales-per-country.jpg 863x564 31kB)
So with iPhone 5 selling lower than predicted and riddled with critical issues such as the purple flare, prone to scratching and the disastrous Apple Maps, are we looking at the first iPhone flop?
http://www.businessinsider.com/two-charts-spell-out-just-how-disappointing-apples-iphone-5-sales-rea
lly-are-2012-9
2 min later 28004843 Anonymous
>>28004810
looks like this samsungfag 'the next best thing is already here' adverts worked.
or because so many fags got the 4S last year, they're still stuck on a 2 year contract
2 min later 28004846 Anonymous
I told ya niggas that iPhone 5 is going to disappoint but /g/ refused to listen to me.
3 min later 28004857 Anonymous
units/country is a godawful metric. These people are business journalists?
4 min later 28004876 Anonymous
>>28004857
fuck I only just saw that
what a useless graph, I'm outta here
5 min later 28004887 Anonymous
It's still going strong according to the hater index.
Measured by the amount of people that feel threatened enough by a cellphone that they have to make inane posts about it.
5 min later 28004893 Anonymous
My sister (she is quite unintelligent I'd say) after some weeks of telling me she would like to buy the iphone5 she told me today that after seeing the one her friend bought she just doesnt like it.
Quoting her: "its too long, too flat and looks like bad plastic"
Tears of joy were dripping off my eyeballs.
11 min later 28004966 Anonymous
>>28004893
>looks like bad plastic
so she won't like any android phone in existence then?
12 min later 28004972 Anonymous
>>28004857
Why is it a bad metric again? Looking at sales/country by itself may be bad but comparing it with similar data from the previous iPhone launch sales is quite logical.
13 min later 28004995 Anonymous
I went ahead and got an S3. Everyone I work with mocks it for being bigger.
I I also hear lines like "why get an immitator when you can have the origional?"
I feel sorry for these people.
13 min later 28004998 Anonymous
>>28004972
but if one year you add 100 really shit countries that buy 1 iPhone each. You're going to get a shit number, looks like that is what happened in the iPhone 5 bar
15 min later 28005020 Anonymous
>>28004995
>immitator
>origional
18 min later 28005070 Anonymous
>>28004998
>but if one year you add 100 really shit countries that buy 1 iPhone each. You're going to get a shit number, looks like that is what happened in the iPhone 5 bar
wow, that's some strawman right there...
I don't think anyone would find this relatively expensive survey if they were just studying random groups of countries from year to year.
21 min later 28005117 Anonymous
>>28005020
Sorry. New to smartphones in general. Can't into touchscreen typing at the moment.
22 min later 28005142 Anonymous
>>28004972
Countries vary massively by population and wealth. If the first year it's sold only in the USA (315 million people, lots of cash), and the second year it's sold in the USA and Russia (half the population and much poorer), the average sold/country will have plummeted. It's not standardised and doesn't provide any useful information.
25 min later 28005187 Anonymous
>>28005117
Swype or Swiftkey solves all these problems. Virtually no learning curve.
Get that thing rooted.
1 hours later 28005899 Anonymous
>>28004966
I don't know, glad she disliked it anyway.
1 hours later 28005922 Anonymous
>>28004810
I would say yes.
After all, it's technically a downgrade from the 4s. I'm impressed how they did that-
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