Tim Higgins for Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s newest iPhones are fueling a surge in trade-ins of Android-based smartphones, threatening to loosen Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)’s grip on the large-screen smartphone segment as users switch allegiances.
When Apple’s main product, featuring bigger displays and faster chips, goes on sale starting in Australia, they may be best remembered as the generation of iPhones that won over consumers from rival smartphones. Trade-ins of Samsung phones with smartphone reseller Gazelle Inc. tripled last week and about a quarter of potential iPhone 6 buyers are new to Apple’s ecosystem, according to RBC.
It should be interesting to see Samsung’s next quarterly results.
Three words: Done. With. Plastic.
Hey, I love my plastic iPhone 5c!
Too late. Samsung already made their pile from sales of knockoffs. No justice.
They’re done. This shot isn’t across the bow…its a direct hit!
That is the risk you take when you make a copycat product. At first, Samsung was making money providing “iPhones” to markets that didn’t yet have real iPhones, and then they made money selling big “iPhones” because there were not yet any big iPhones. But ultimately, Apple will have real iPhones in all markets and at all sizes. Steve Jobs said they were coming to every market when he introduced iPhone in 2007. And the fact that Apple did a 10-inch version only 3 years later and has long had Macs and iPods in all sizes tells you that Apple was always going to make all sizes of iPhone.