Apple may have an iPhone 18 Pro demand problem(www.androidauthority.com)
7 pointsby raffael_de2 hours ago4 comments
  • gruturo4 minutes ago
    Honestly it may just be that lots of people - especially those with deep pockets - are going to buy the Duo instead. Not a mention in the article, maybe someone is short on Apple and could use a dip, so conveniently forgets a logical explanation.
  • illusive408020 minutes ago
    Simple: 17 Pro was near perfection and sold like hot cakes. People are not upgrading.
  • mahmoudhossam25 minutes ago
    It's not a demand problem, it's a pricing problem.
  • xvxvxan hour ago
    There haven’t been any major reasons to upgrade in many years. What kept them afloat was their boutique branding, but people have less disposable income and sorry, having the cool new iPhone that looks and acts the exact same as the last 10 isn’t going to cut it anymore.

    Thinner. Lighter. Slightly faster. More expensive. No one really cares. Their keynotes are monotonous, with long diatribes on how many oz they’ve shaved off hardware that no one can even notice during tests.

    I’d advise them to innovate more but showing up with a VR headset and foldable phone many, many years after they’ve already been in the market shows they’re out of ideas.

    • Bluesteinan hour ago
      Do we really really really need 20-something iterations of a product? At some point the Emperor's new clothes are going to really really show.-
      • altairprime23 minutes ago
        I’d love if my blouses were on their twentieth iteration without decaying quality every year for two decades like the clothes market has done recently; so, yes, we absolutely can benefit from such investment. Uniqlo is the only instance I know of a new clothes retailer publishing release notes for their iterations, so I know it’s possible and profitable, but it’s just extraordinarily rare in any segment — whether the emperor’s phone, or the emperor’s clothes.