stenniz

Unless you work inside Apple you have no clue what they are up to! Just saying things to hear yourself talk is ignorant. Just shut-up and put your opinions where they matter! In the toilet.Move on.

New iPhone

I would not be surprised if component orders are being slashed as a new iPhone, the iPhone 5s, is likely to come out in March.

Agreed

Originally Posted by stenniz

Unless you work inside Apple you have no clue what they are up to! Just saying things to hear yourself talk is ignorant. Just shut-up and put your opinions where they matter! In the toilet.Move on.

The only thing they know is how to manipulate the stock price in the short run by providing these 'assumptions'.

Wow

Originally Posted by stenniz

Unless you work inside Apple you have no clue what they are up to! Just saying things to hear yourself talk is ignorant. Just shut-up and put your opinions where they matter! In the toilet.Move on.

Nice comment, er... rant. You mad, bro?

Did mommy take your iPhone away from you?

I don't know, Grendelmon. The point made was reasonable, to me. Perhaps a bit excited, and a weensie harsh at the end, but reasonable over all.

Feel free to flush. ;)

It's really funny how some fanboy kids react as if their life is in question. :brick:
But let's come back to the article. I wouldn't wonder if the iphone5 doesn't sell as well as some previous versions. There is not really a lot of new things in there. Don't forget, some of those new features are hardly available in some countries outside of the usa and siri is available only for the big languages. So, quite a lot of people don't have a reason to switch from their iphone4, just for a slightly bigger display. And above that, the new iphone is also slightly more expensive.
I can at least talk in my own name. I have an iphone 4 and I usually change every other version, so after the 4s which I omitted the iphone 5 would be my choice. But I don't see one single reason to switch. The new maps are bad, navigation is equally bad because the maps are not detailed, siri doesn't work for my country/language, no company of my interest uses passbook. So, not one single reason to switch. Apple really needs to try harder. The situation is changing and Samsung is obviously doing well with their Galaxy smartphones.

It seems like Android has been ahead of iPhone in features and new technology for a few years now, but the advantage with Apple is that everything just worked so flawlessly. Now, it seems like Android has things pretty well ironed out, and Apple is struggling with some of the problems mojkarma just mentioned. Makes sense that Apple would lose some of its market share.

Do you really think the iPhone 5S will be out as early as March?! Seems early.

Originally Posted by Zanziboy

I would not be surprised if component orders are being slashed as a new iPhone, the iPhone 5s, is likely to come out in March.

Wouldn't most component parts be the same? I have no clue, just looking at the iPhone 4 to 4S, they look almost identical.

I don't know that this necessarily means anything at all. They just finished a HUGE holiday quarter, they're not going to sell as many in Jan-Mar, so why WOULDN'T they cut orders? This would be news if Samsung, Amazon (et al) wasn't cutting back on orders (compared to holiday-season orders) too, or if this was a rare miscalculation from Tim "operations master" Cook, but there's really no evidence that that's the case (though it could be).

Smells a bit like stock manipulation planted sources to me ...

Still we won't have long to wait to verify it. Apple will be legally obligated to forecast WAY lower sales in their fiscal Q2 if iPhone (the company's flagship product) isn't selling well. So we'll know whether this is BS or not in about 10 days.

This is BS

The WSJ have corrected themselves. Why does every tech site spread rumors? This is not news, just pure speculation based on nothing.

Originally Posted by TyPod

Wouldn't most component parts be the same? I have no clue, just looking at the iPhone 4 to 4S, they look almost identical.

Almost every single part of the iPhone 4 and 4S is different.

As I recall, it's basically only the display that's the same. Even the vibration motor was switched.

They really went through tremendous effort to make it *look* like almost nothing had changed (which is why all the rants over how "disappointing" it was, and that Apple were "getting lazy" and "losing their touch" were so absurd. They ENTIRELY missed the whole point of what Apple was doing: "Here. iPhone. You love it. Now, the new iPhone: It's exactly the same as the one you love and see everywhere. Except better in every way.")