iPhone XR Dominates the iPhone Market

[jiyeon]

3 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

The iPhone XR accounted for 38 percent of all Apple’s US handset sales during the first three months of this this year, according to a market research company.

Damn, son. XR selling like hotcakes just like the late iPhone 5C.

 

Cheaper iPhone versions sell good.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

 

let that sink in for a moment...

 

I don't know if I'm the only one, but reasonable for phone that most people use to watch videos, make calls and use services like snapchat, instagram and whatsapp ends IMO at $200-300 because todays offerings at this price point are very good.

But I don’t want or need to save money? That’s why I buy an iPhone.

[mr moose]

Slow news day?  an iphone is the best selling iphone of all the iphones.  

[Fetzie]

11 minutes ago, floofer said:

But I don’t want or need to save money? That’s why I buy an iPhone.

Then why not buy the objectively better iPhone XS?

 

A "reasonable" price for the XR given the specs would be more like 450 for the base model and 550-600 for the top version. 750 bucks gets you a Galaxy S10. Or a new, top of the line Note 9.

 

The only reason the XR exists, is to make the 200 dollar upgrade to the XS look like a good deal.

[bcredeur97]

I mean it is new and it is the cheapest that is apple.. what do you expect?

 

Requirements list for MOST people rocking apple devices:
1. is it Apple so itll work with all my other apple things

2. what is the cheapest option that does what I need that they have

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

and it is the cheapest that is apple

Do you even know the current product lineup? 

[bcredeur97]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Do you even know the current product lineup? 

yes. it's the cheapest NEW phone they have... ignoring the 7 and 8.. that's old. who cares about them?

[colonel_mortis]

@DrMacintosh please can you update the title - your post is about the XR "dominating" (though to call 38% dominating is definitely a stretch) iPhone sales, not the smartphone market as a whole.

[DrMacintosh]

2 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

ignoring the 7 and 8.. that's old. who cares about them?

People who want last gen flagships? I bought the 8 Plus over the XR you know....

[DrMacintosh]

4 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

(though to call 38% dominating is definitely a stretch)

A single handset making up 38% of the market is pretty dominate. 

[bcredeur97]

6 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

People who want last gen flagships? I bought the 8 Plus over the XR you know....

im just saying a lot of people want a NEW product not last gen. because that's what people want.. I didn't say it was smart

[colonel_mortis]

@DrMacintosh your title edit was not sufficient to clarify that the market that is dominated is just the iPhone market, not some segment of the wider smartphone market. I have updated the title for you - feel free to tweak it, but don't just change it back. If you want to discuss this, feel free to send me a PM.

[Firewrath9]

4 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

48% of Apple users pay for extra iCloud Storage. My favorite is the 50GB for $1/m plan. 

is the icloud storage like dropbox? (i get 1TB onedrive with Office 365, and I use like 10GB :P)

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Firewrath9 said:

is the icloud storage like dropbox? (i get 1TB onedrive with Office 365, and I use like 10GB :P)

Essentially. 

 

iCloud Drive is very much like Google Drive and DropBox, just much more integrated. It's also used for iCloud Photo Library and iOS Device backups and other iCloud Services. 

[colonel_mortis]

Topic cleaned, please don't devolve this into an argument.

[Bouzoo]

15 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

is the icloud storage like dropbox? (i get 1TB onedrive with Office 365, and I use like 10GB :P)

 

12 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Essentially. 

 

iCloud Drive is very much like Google Drive and DropBox, just much more integrated. It's also used for iCloud Photo Library and iOS Device backups and other iCloud Services. 

True and not true. It is worse in sense that you get only 5GB (since 2011.) of storage which is not enough to backup anything, especially if you have multiple devices. You are basically forced to pay for more, hence why more users buy it. Hence why I bought 50 GB for my fiancee. Also it is not "much more integrated" than let's say Google Drive which is used for Google Photos and device backups and most stuff that come to mind that Apple has integrated. More integrated than Dropbox? Absolutely. 

 

[Firewrath9]

6 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Essentially. 

 

iCloud Drive is very much like Google Drive and DropBox, just much more integrated. It's also used for iCloud Photo Library and iOS Device backups and other iCloud Services. 

I use my 128GB ipad as my storage for all my iphone pics lol.

I use my NAS for basically everything as well, so never really got into online storage.

 

aparently the 1TB icloud storage is 10$/month, or 120$ a year, my Office 365 Home is 100$/year, for 1TB online storage for multiple users (4?), and you get word, excel and other stuff.

[DrMacintosh]

3 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

Also it is not "much more integrated" than let's say Google Drive which is used for Google Photos and device backups and most stuff that come to mind that Apple has integrated. More integrated than Dropbox? Absolutely. 

As far as I am aware, Google Drive and Drop Box cannot cloud sync your Desktop and Documents folders.

[Firewrath9]

1 minute ago, Bouzoo said:

 

True and not true. It is worse in sense that you get only 5GB (since 2011.) of storage which is not enough to backup anything, especially if you have multiple devices. You are basically forced to pay for more, hence why more users buy it. Hence why I bought 50 GB for my fiancee. Also it is not "much more integrated" than let's say Google Drive which is used for Google Photos and device backups and most stuff that come to mind that Apple has integrated. More integrated than Dropbox? Absolutely. 

yeah, cloud storage is stupid expensive. 10TB (I have 24TB of usable storage on my NAS) costs 100$/month, so my NAS is 6 months of cloud storage. Might move to UNraid, but that'd be super confusing (I'm not even that good with ubuntu)

[Firewrath9]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

As far as I am aware, Google Drive and Drop Box cannot cloud sync your Desktop and Documents folders.

what's that screenshot for?

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

my Office 365 Home is 100$/year, for 1TB online storage for multiple users (4?), and you get word, excel and other stuff.

Keep in mind iOS Devices come with Apples own Office Suite and other services that you would normally have to pay for on Windows and Android. 

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Firewrath9 said:

what's that screenshot for?

The forum glitched. 

[Bouzoo]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

As far as I am aware, Google Drive and Drop Box cannot cloud sync your Desktop and Documents folders.

I think you posted a wrong pic...?

Anywho, Google Drive can. It's literally the first thing in the settings.

 

 

Dropbox either can't or I am missing something.

[suicidalfranco]

3 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

As far as I am aware, Google Drive and Drop Box cannot cloud sync your Desktop and Documents folders.

they can

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Keep in mind iOS Devices come with Apples own Office Suite and other services that you would normally have to pay for on Windows and Android. 

factually incorrect

 

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, suicidalfranco said:

factually incorrect

In what way? Like Google Drive? Sure that's an option if you like being required to be online to write anything. 

 

Office is free on Mobile but you get none of the important features.