Let me put it another way - if customers prefer older phones as you claim (iPhone 6S, SE, etc), why do Apple record their highest sales in Q4, which is the quarter in which they launch their new models?
Various people here claim that this doesn't hurt Apple's sales but I disagree. I think this is the point that our friend TylerLV76 feels so strongly about, but personally I would not spend EUR 530 on a phone that is three years old.
Ok look, one last time since you insist on continuing on about this. If what you say is true for anyone besides you, why is the SE the highest sold phone in the UK and wildly successful still in the U.S.? The 2 regions Apple focuses on. You wouldn't buy it but millions of people are. I don't lower my costs when my sales numbers are high. I lower them when sales start to fall.
Please stop comparing cheap throw away Android phones with phones that have proven are useful even with current updates this many years later. We get it, you don't want pay the prices that Apple successfully sells millions of phones at. They are
#2 in the market at these prices and I highly doubt they are going to cut them back to your liking. Even the rumored $550 upcoming iPhone won't satisfy you because it is also rumored that they will remove features from that device so it doesn't take away from the higher end models.
What you're suggesting they do, to suit you, is business suicide. You want them to introduce a cheap model that will be lacking features that will take sales away from their flagship devices. This will not only decrease profits but will cause them to have a model that doesn't stack up after the first year.
Theres a reason the companies you keep comparing never break the top 3 in market share and its because this is what they do. LG, Lenovo, etc. They sell lower quality phones that diminish their sales and reputation. Apple doesn't need to do this nor should they. They built a reputation on quality and features, not on offering cheap alternatives. Even the 3 year old devices have better cameras and run the OS better than even some of todays flagships.
Twenty times? Are you serious? This is why I would never buy mobile phone insurance such as Apple Care! (don't know if you do, of course)
Yes at least 20 times. I have MacBooks, phones, watches and iPads in my house used by 4 people. A couple of them are pretty clumsy. This is EXACTLY why I buy AppleCare. Had I not I would have spent more than double what I paid to have these devices fixed. I use my AppleCare on every device. I sell my devices at top dollar when I upgrade and AppleCare makes sure I can do that.
I remain mystified by the number of problems people on this site have with mobile phones. I have owned Apple mobile products and Android-based mobile products, and have never had a problem with any of them that required the product to be returned or repaired. I am also aware of typical return rates for consumer electronics products (I have worked in the industry) and people here experience orders of magnitude more problems than typical consumers, both with Apple and non-Apple products.
I bought I believe a total of 16 Android phones last year (its pretty well documented on Android Central). I bought so many because I couldn't find an Android phone that I actually enjoyed using for more than a week or 2 besides the Mate 9, LG G6 (that one only lasted a month) and the note 8. Not a single one of those had the convenience, if I dropped the phone and broke the screen, that Apple has. Many of them had issues (I misspoke about the 4 S8 Actives, it was the S7 Active). Not one of those companies I tried had a store I could walk into and get a same day repair.
You buy what 1 or 2 phones a year? Of course you wouldn't have the issues I had when I bought 16. Every Android flagship that came out last year, except the Note 8, had some kind of well documented issue. Even Samsungs flagships had it with the tinted screens on the S8 series.
The bottom line is this. You want a cheaper way to be apart of the Apple ecosystem. You feel they are too expensive and it prevents you from buying their products. The problem is, based on the amount of sales they turn out year after year, you are in the minority. They are absolutely killing it at their current price points for almost all of their devices (HomePod excluded). When you are as successful as they are at these prices there is zero reason to lower them. Even their 3 year old devices outsell many of the most recent flagship devices that cost less.
The sad part about this all is I am not a fan of Apples OS and leadership. They are dated OS wise and need a serious upgrade and I blame Tim Cook and Jony Ivy for this. Even with that opinion, here I am typing this on a Macbook Pro, wearing my Apple Watch, playing music off my iPhone X on my AirPods. For someone who's not a fan of Apple, you gotta ask why Im surrounded by all their products...
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