At this point no one is surprised if we say that the iPhone 5c has been a failure. The mobile terminal with the heart of iPhone 5 was born to reach a younger audience thanks to its striking colors and a lower price, however, its purchase made no sense considering that its hardware was a year old and the iPhone 5s could be bought for little more.
Although Apple has never recognized that the iPhone 5c has failed, it already allows us to intuit something when this year they have not renewed an iPhone 6c. What's more, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is planning end the making of the iPhone 5c and the iPhone 4s at the end of 2015.
To this day, the iPhone 5c is still on sale for a price of 399 euros in its 8 GB configuration. Unless your operator offers it to you as candy to sign a 24-month contract, it is highly unlikely that the iPhone 5c will be able to scratch a large volume of sales in the rest of its life.
What's more, for that price and with that internal capacity, your purchase is totally meaningless. Remember that Apple offers the iPhone 6 64 GB as an almost forced purchase because deep down they know that the 16 GB model already falls short for the vast majority of users. Imagine one with 8 GB ...
Ultimately, the iPhone 5c will have to be added as a list of Apple experiments that have turned out to be a failure. I liked the mobile phone and I saw it as a good opportunity to compete with very strong ranges of the competition but, as usual in the Apple world, the sale price dug its grave ahead of time.
In the title it says iPhone 5s !!! Change it ;-P
I had stayed O_o thinking it was the 5s ...
It was a mistake, I realized the second but I had already pressed the publish button ... inertia has played a trick on me, I have spoken so little about the iPhone 5c that I systematically write iPhone 5s on the keyboard. The bug is now fixed.
Anyway, the withdrawal of this product is the natural order, right? That is ... They say they will stop manufacturing it at the end of 2015 ... date on which the iPhone 6S will be released (and even who knows if a 6C ... although we already know that it will not be like that). What I mean is that in 2016 the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, almost certainly the iPhone 6S Plus and who knows if any other version (as they did when they released the 5C) ... The only one that has survived more than necessary is the iPhone 4S ... perhaps because of its very successful design ... but come on ... I think it is normal that in 2016 the iPhone 5C is no longer manufactured, regardless of the success it had ...
Besides, I repeat, who knows if when they take out the iPhone 6S they will not be accompanied by another (apart from their brother iPhone 6S Plus…).
And in my personal opinion, the iPhone 5C, who do not care so much about the maximum performance of a 5S or a 6, the striking colors of this iPhone is a very good point from Apple ... They are really beautiful and striking ...
However, I have an iPhone 6 and I will always look more for the performance (apart from that it is also beautiful 😛 xD)
The Funboys have no remedy, the thing is to somehow justify their withdrawal, and not just accept the word "failure." Keep it up, Apple loves your money.
But is not the same what they did now with the iPhone 6 than with the 5c? In other words, the iPhone 6 + would take the place of the iPhone that is renewed every year and the 6 the 5c, it is a terminal without the top-of-the-range features at a lower price I see it as following the strategy but in a different way since It is not the same to say I buy the 5c which is the "cheap" terminal from Apple than to say I buy the iPhone 6 which is definitely not the top of the range. We could call it the iPhone 6c the 4.7 ″ and the iPhone 6 the 5.5 ″ And no one would buy the 6c hahaha I don't know if he explained to me XD
Not expensive, it has nothing to do with it ... the iPhone 6 Plus (call it good) is the older brother of the iPhone 6, simply for those who want a bigger screen ... But the benefits (except for the battery and optical stabilizer) are for both themselves.
With the iPhone 5C it was not the same ... the iPhone 5C was launched with the iPhone 5S, which are not brothers at all ... the iPhone 5C what it did was replace the original iPhone 5, simply to lower production costs of the iPhone 5, and also give the "colorful touch" to that new iPhone.
Then the reason they stop manufacturing it is simply, I repeat, by the natural order ... in 2016 it will be a mobile that in terms of characteristics is the iPhone 5, a mobile that will have spent almost 4 years and which is ahead of the:
- iPhone 5S
- iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 6S and iPhone 6 Plus?
- iPhone 6C to replace the iPhone 6 as they did with the 5C?
I repeat, I think it is normal that in 2016 it will stop manufacturing, although I think that it will stop manufacturing by the end of 2016 ...
iPhone 5C, Apple's big mistake.
iPhoneator, I don't see it that way… the 5C replaces the 5 (which disappeared as soon as this one came out)…. And the cost of production of a 5C is much lower than the 5….
That is, if the iPhone 5 had continued to sell, would it have been a mistake as well? No right? Well, it's the same ... The same thing that the iPhone 5 would have sold when the 5S came out, it's the same as what the 5C sold when the iPhone 5S came out ... (And the same was with the 4 and the 4S) ... Simply, With the 5C what they did was lower costs 😉
Precisely because of what you say at the end of your comment, it was indeed Apple's big mistake.
Leaving the iPhone 5 would not have been a mistake, it would have been the natural order of things, which had always happened, and you can be completely sure that it would have been sold in the same way that the iPhone 4S continued to be sold. However, Apple tried to deceive users by sneaking an iPhone 5 much cheaper to manufacture but with a final cost to the customer equal to what the "normal" iPhone 5 would have had. At the time I got tired of criticizing this gross Apple scam, however in this blog I was even insulted by calling me a hater, and saying that the 5C was beautiful and that it was going to be sold like hotcakes. Even some editor came up with the happy idea of including this scam in an entry that talked about innovation; innovation? The innovative 5C? Come now!!!
Finally time puts everyone in their place, the editor who has had to eat his words and Apple for trying to scam his most loyal customers, yes, those who would buy anything that had the symbol of the bitten apple that like me You know that there are them and it is for whom this terminal was directed. Very few (I refer to the tests), of the new customers would choose a terminal with a technology from two years ago and with a plastic body, when the "normal" iPhone (the 5s at that time), had a price difference so petty.
I'm really freaking out about your comments mate, but do you really believe what you're saying? You rely on mere speculation and I on data. What is that the iPhone 4S with a technology even more outdated than the iPhone 5c has been sold more man! What are you saying about a younger audience? Really, check your arguments because, and forgive me, they are from the Northern Lights. You should know that Apple's mid-range has always sold very well and neither young customers nor anything, it was sold to anyone who could not or did not want to spend the money that the star terminal was worth but still obtained a premium terminal at a price interesting.
The question is very simple Hector, Apple always subtracted a position from its terminals when a new one came out; In the case at hand, the 5s came out and therefore the 4S should have remained as an input device (which is how it stayed), the 5 as a mid-range, and the 5s as a high-end. Well, Apple simply tried to scam its customers by eliminating the iPhone 5 to replace it with a much cheaper terminal to manufacture but that was exactly the same as the most expensive inside. The scam was that the final sale price was the same that would have had the most expensive, that is, Apple would have made a lot of money if users had chopped, since they would have paid the price of a terminal with premium finishes for a plastic one .
And watch out! At no time have I said that the 5c is a bad terminal because it is not, it simply did not have the price it should have had. If it had been, he would not have said anything at the time or of course now. In any case I could have criticized it from the point of view of taste but as you very well say for tastes (and never better said), colors. However, this has never been a matter of taste but of money, nothing more.
To say that you do not see it as a failure because according to you (and only according to you), they would have sold the same units of the "normal" iPhone 5….
As I told you in the first paragraph, more units of the 4S have been sold than the 5c. Are you really going to tell me why is it even cheaper? Come on Hector, this has never happened to Apple, I have always followed the same pattern of terminal renewal and at no time has there been the resounding failure in sales that has occurred with the iPhone 5c, at any time.
Your last attempt to vilify the "normal" iPhone 5 to defend your position is quite sad mate. Come on, according to you, as in the iPhone 5 "normal" and in black the paint could be scratched, it would always be better to buy it in plastic, right? And the best thing is that you pay THE SAME price as for aluminum and honey on flakes, right? What to read, mother of God.
We'll see…. that in your comment you say that I say nonsense, but yours does not fall short….
The 3GS being made of plastic, was it a bad smartphone? Did Apple want to rip you off with plastic? Sorry but NO. And when I say that it reduces manufacturing costs, I am not referring to MATERIAL costs (which if they are reduced somewhat, they are minimal). But the manufacturing process with plastic is cheaper than with aluminum.
Have you had an iPhone 5C in hand? I tell you that it does not have a "plastic" feeling at all, as you say, and as are most Samsung and other brands that use the same material ... I have it, and it looks much better than another iPhone 5 that I have, which is with all edges raised.
Then inside, it has the SAME TECHNOLOGY (and when I say same, I mean GOOD) as the iPhone 5 that came out a year earlier. And this is so, because it came out with the PURPOSE of replacing the IPHONE 5. Does Apple have to lower the price by putting the same quality of components as the iPhone 5? If so, those who sold the iPhone 5 got scammed right? Because in terms of benefits they have the same, and according to you it should have come at a VERY lower price ... Sorry to laugh but HA HA HA.
You say that the bezel is my thing to defend my position ... Hahaha, I leave you a few images of how the iPhone 5 looked after a few months of use:
—- I can't leave them to you because it tells me that a moderator must approve it and to know when that is…. But Google Images "iPhone 5 paint" and "iPhone 5 scratched bezel" ——
DOES THAT LOOK LIKE A PREMIUM FINISH TO YOU ??? BETTER THAN THE PLASTIC ONE ??? BECAUSE NOT ME.
A few months after buying the iPhone 5, I got a monumental PRAY at how the edges of my iPhone looked from the simple rubbing on pants and surfaces. This was later fixed on the iPhone 5S, which changed the bevel type so that this would not happen.
So before commenting on things like this, saying that I am based on speculation, find out a little about yourself, and if that, buy both phones and compare them in quality ... to see if you dare to tell me that the iPhone 5C has something to envy the iPhone 5 in terms of FINISHES.
In short, the iPhone 5C is a correct replacement for the iPhone 5, with a change of air oriented to polycarbonate that gave life to the original iPhone and with a range of colors that, at least for me and I know many others as well, has liked.
And whoever was left with the rumor that the iPhone 5C was going to be cheaper, and that Apple was going to lower the quality of its products to be cheaper, can now switch to a Xiaomi or a Lenovo, which lately they do. very good 😉 😉 😉
A greeting.
NOTE TO THE MODERATOR: delete this message when you approve the one with the URLs to the images ... what the hell with the filters ...
I have not said at any time that you say nonsense because that would seem disrespectful to me and in no case is it my intention to disrespect you. I have said, and I reaffirm myself, that you are based on speculations that are only yours, without any data, but with this answer what you are showing above is that you do not understand what I write or I simply cannot explain myself:
When I say that you are based on speculations only yours, I do it to counter-argue your claim that if the iPhone 5c had not existed, the iPhone 5 would have sold the same or similar units and I tell you that no, that Apple's mid-range (when it really was mid-range) it was selling phenomenally. What's more, is that to show you that you are totally wrong you should know (and if not look for the data) that with the iPhone 5c replacing the iPhone 5, more 4S units have been sold and this would never have happened. In other words, that the low-end sells more than the mid-range had never happened. Are you going to tell me that it is a coincidence that this happens just when they replace the iPhone 5 with the plastic iPhone 5? Man by God, this is already curling the curl too much, don't you think? Especially if you take into account and add the criticism that this plastic iPhone 5 generated around the world.
That the black iPhone 5 has been scratched obviously I cannot qualify as speculation because it has happened to you and it is not something unknown. But getting to say, as you have practically said, that it is better if it is plastic than aluminum is an anthological companion. If you have been scratched or have that danger or fear ... There are some very useful and cheap things that protect you from these problems and that most of Apple users use to protect such an expensive device, they are called covers.
The most incredible thing is that you defend that Apple charges you the same for a plastic terminal as for an aluminum one, here you absolutely lose all your argument. To say that the difference in the manufacturing price between aluminum and plastic is very small is to demonstrate very little knowledge about the cost of materials, but it is necessary to add, (this if fortunately you say it) that the complete manufacturing process it is also more expensive.
I repeat, at no time have I said that the iPhone 5c is a bad terminal because it is not and of course neither was the 3GS at the time. The quiz of the question is to replace a terminal with premium finishes for a plastic one and sell it for the same price, that is the problem and the reason that it has been an absolute failure for Apple.
Of course I have had an iPhone 5c in my hands, what's more, I have had several, I do not usually talk about something if I do not know it and as I said in the previous paragraph it is not a bad terminal, the problem is Apple's maneuver to Get it out, that is, the scam. And by the way, no matter how well this finish is and the feeling in the hand is good (which it is), it is still, no matter how much it hurts, plastic.
Finally, your fourth paragraph is incredible Hector, how did the users who bought the iPhone 5 a year earlier get scammed? How can you ask why they should have lowered the price? Damn (and sorry), because the manufacturing cost of that substitute is much lower (MUCH LESS, don't forget). I repeat to you, all those who have bought an iPhone 5c have paid for a plastic terminal the same as they would have paid for an aluminum and glass one, do you like to be sold silver at the same price as gold? Well, boy, congratulations, but I don't like being scammed.
Anyway, I see that you are one of those customers for whom the 5C is intended, that is, a staunch customer who would buy (if he could, of course), everything that bears the logo of the bitten apple. With you Apple was right in their scam and the best thing is that you are happy and happy that they have charged you the same for a plastic terminal as for an aluminum and glass one. Luckily there are not many clients like you (I am referring to sales) because if not all users would expect this type of scam.
However, hey, I am very glad that you are happy and happy, it is your money so for me it is as if you burn it, but always bear in mind that you have been cheated, that you have been charged silver at the price of gold.
Ah! I forgot, the iPhone 5c as much as you refuse to admit it, yes, it has been one of Apple's biggest failures, until Tim Cook has admitted that it has sold below expectations, that the CEO of Apple comes to admit something This is a palpable sample of the failure of the device, but if you still want more evidence, read the entry we are discussing again; in a month this device will stop being manufactured but as if this were not enough there is not (nor will there be) a substitute with characteristics similar to it in the future, why? Why have you been doing so well with him? No Héctor, because it has been, as much as it hurts, I insist, an absolute failure.
Yes yes yes, but as much as they lower costs, if people do not buy it, that is still that, Apple's big mistake! As much as admitting it to funboys.
I have a 5c for taking advantage of the promotion of the store where I buy it, it really was not a bad idea, the bad thing was the price! We all knew it had technology from last year and without the "plus" material that distinguishes them
The 5C was not a bestseller due to its exorbitant price compared to the competition and the price difference between the 5C and the 5S being very small. It would have sold well if the target price was around € 300 at launch!
But let's see !!!! That the iPhone 5C was an iPhone 5 !!!! The same as it was on 4 when 4S came out !!!! the price was a little lower than the 4S, but not to leave the 4S had to lower € 200 the mobile !!!!
If they had stayed, the iPhone 5, the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S, maybe the 5C itself should be a lot cheaper! But that was not Apple's strategy, if not to replace the iPhone 5 with the iPhone 5C to lower costs (which is their right to do so, since the quality of the iPhone 5C, I repeat, leaves nothing to envy that of the iPhone 5 )
Nothing, the quality of the iPhone 5c had nothing to envy to that of the iPhone 5, which goes, only that one is plastic and the other aluminum, come on, a very small difference, right? A difference that apart from the obvious aspect, it is very differentiated in the manufacturing cost that in the case of the 5c is much lower but that nevertheless did not translate into the final sale price because it cost the same as the premium would have cost. . In short, a masterpiece for Apple that had pocketed many millions of dollars at the cost of deceiving its most staunch customers and as I have said they would buy anything with the logo of the bitten apple. Luckily, in the end people are not stupid and the few that have been sold, have been sold thanks to a very strong subsidy from the operators to be able to get rid of the dead man.
"But let's see !!!! That the iPhone 5C was an iPhone 5 !!!! The same as it was on 4 when 4S came out !!!! the price was a little lower than the 4S, but not to leave the 4S had to lower the mobile € 200 !!!! " In other words, according to you, it is as if the iphone 4S and he were presented at the same time. What a poop.
Jaime, exactly. I mean, when the iPhone 4S came out, NO more iPhones were introduced….
In the case of the 5S, what they did was present the iPhone 5C, which REPLACED the iPhone 5. That is why it was a little cheaper than the iPhone 5S, because in reality what it did was REPLACE the iPhone 5 ... That is, it is as if the iPhone 5 had the cost of the iPhone 5C when it came out.
They simply removed the iPhone 5 because of the manufacturing costs for a mobile phone, which, as "Yo" said in a comment, has the technology of a year earlier. But precisely because of that, because it was the replacement for the iPhone 5.
I repeat, it is not a failure of Apple, or perhaps if the iPhone 5C had not come out, and the iPhone 5 had had the same sales as the iPhone 5C it would be a failure? Obviously not, it just sold less than the iPhone 5S was the pointer ... The same as the iPhone 4 sold less as soon as the 4S came out ... It's that it's OBVIOUS!
When the 4S was presented, the 4 remained as a mid-range and the 3GS as an input terminal. With the output of 5 the 4S remained as a mid-range and the 4 as an input terminal. With the output of the 5s the 5 should have remained as the mid-range and the 4S as the input terminal. What happened? That the 4S effectively remained as an input terminal and the 5S as the top of the range, however the 5 was eliminated to replace it with an iPhone 5 but plastic but beware! AT THE SAME PRICE THAT ALUMINUM WOULD HAVE REMAINED. that is, and I repeat, a full-blown scam aimed at its most staunch clients. Fortunately few bit.
I think that if the price really fluctuated as advertised, "affordable", another serious thing, its sales would increase surprisingly; in addition to sweeping away the competition of «medium gamma» teams; lowering the price would be a milestone. It's apple, but at half the price it would be ideal; often detail.
Osvaldo never announced the iPhone with an affordable price…. All that were rumors that they were going to get a cheaper iPhone ... but it was not really like that, what it was, it was a reestyling of the iPhone 5, in which the manufacturing costs were cheaper ... but at no time was Apple going to get a cheaper iPhone… In no time!
For me, as if they had never taken it out, simply by not closing the polycarbonate factory to make a mobile of these, characteristics is counterproductive for a brand that boasts of materials, design, etc.