It’s now about quarter-hour after iPhone preordering opened and, sure, the Macalope believes we will say categorically that the iPhone 16 line is an abject failure.
Unhappy. Certainly it is going to be pulled from the market quickly.
This may appear early however it’s not the earliest an Apple product has been declared troubled by poor gross sales. In latest reminiscence, the prize goes to the Imaginative and prescient Professional, which was reported to have manufacturing cuts in the summertime earlier than it was launched. Not solely that, these “drastic” manufacturing cuts have been reported to be to 400,000 items. 9 months later, after the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s launch, one other outfit reported Apple was endeavor “unfavorable” manufacturing cuts to… 400,000 items.
Sure, the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s manufacturing figures have been reduce twice to the identical quantity. Truthfully, the Macalope’s undecided the way you high that. That must be enshrined within the Apple Doom Corridor of Fame.
Regardless, it’s one other yr, one other set of iPhones, however the identical scent of doom:
“Telephone 16 first weekend pre-order evaluation:…Professional collection demand decrease than anticipated“
Sure, based on Ming-Chi Kuo, each the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max are underselling their iPhone 15 Professional counterparts. Kuo estimated that gross sales of all 4 iPhone 16 fashions reached about 37 million items within the first weekend after Apple started accepting pre-orders, which is down almost 13 p.c in comparison with first-weekend gross sales of the iPhone 15 collection final yr.
That stated, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are promoting higher than the year-ago fashions.
Whereas first-weekend gross sales of the iPhone 16 Plus and commonplace model have been up YoY, their impression on whole iPhone shipments is restricted.
Ming-Chi Kuo, September 15, 2024
Hey, didn’t somebody in a dapper go well with and adorned with antlers counsel simply final week that the usual fashions would do higher this yr? Seems whoever that may have been was proper. And remarkably good-looking. Enjoyable at events. Cries whereas watching nerd films. And so forth.
There’s a good bit of hypothesis occurring that the issue (assuming there actually is an issue right here) is AI. Please be at liberty to make your personal Scooby Doo memes of Fred pulling the masks off the ghost and it’s AI. The issue with AI is sort of a rephrasing of that outdated joke concerning the meals being unhealthy and coming in such small parts: nobody desires it and it’s not coming for months.
“These Two Apple Intelligence Features Not Expected Until iOS 18.2”
Sadly, these two issues usually are not “Any kind of relevance for most customers” and “Not being told to eat a barrel full of rocks and drink a nice glass of liquid soap when asked for easy weeknight dinner recipes”. No, it’s Genmoji and Picture Playground, a playground the Macalope imagines you will see that linked to Uncanny Valley Grade Faculty in Skilled On Different Folks’s Work With out Their Consentville.
Lotta bizarre place names within the higher midwest.
The iPhone 16 lineup is a pleasant set of telephones and their gross sales figures are primarily based on numerous sophisticated variables, some having to do with the life cycle of earlier telephones, inflation, confidence concerning the future and plenty of different elements. The Macalope, a long-time fan of the iPhone mini, is lastly giving up and shopping for an iPhone 16 however definitely not for AI. For the Digicam Management button.
Bear in mind these predictions that AI would drive a brilliant cycle of telephone gross sales?
“Top Goldman Sachs analyst says the world is moving into a new super cycle”
That was January. And right here in September…. yeah, seems like that’s not occurring. And it’s not as a result of Apple is rolling out these options slowly. Most of AI is simply one other massive tech try to chop out the intermediary, solely this time the intermediary isn’t taxi firms or motels, it’s writers and artists. That wasn’t one thing folks have been clamoring for. Don’t be shocked once they don’t rush out to slap down $1,000 for it.