dpb

Even I could see this baby wasn't going to make it


http://recombu.com/mobile/news/apple...ts_M19632.html

neil-h

Maybe there aren't that many isheep after all.

Graz

Think they were a bit late to the party with this. All the iSheep have of course been queuing up to buy a 5S but for the rest of us who would have liked a cheaper version of the iPhone some years ago are now all Android converts

Long live King Droid

LSherratt

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My girlfriend has the iPhone 5C in bright green. I think one of the reasons they are a flop is because they look incredibly girly. I could not imagine a bloke with a bright yellow/green/red/blue phone.

L.J.F

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I have a 5c in white and it doesn't seem any different from the 4s I had before.

dpb

Nothing to do with price then!?!?!

stevebt

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The 5c was supposed to be the budget iphone to take the Chinese market

dpb

I can't imagine apple cutting price by half, too damaging to their rep, even though they easily afford

Markus

Ah, this'll be people seeing the supply chain for the 5C is having it's production output lowered by a large factor, and equating that to meaning the 5C is a complete failure.

Have a read of the "Can't Check a channel you don't understand" section of this article: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/...ain-cuts-story

Obviously some will state that as the original comment about not relying on what the supply chain is doing, as coming from Tim Cook, is biased towards Apple.

The original thought was that the 5C was to be a budget model to China, I'll admit that I thought that too. But it's clear that wasn't the case, more specifically, I believe the idea is that China is known to rather fond of premium / luxury products (I believe the new S-Class and Bentley Continental have been primarily designed for the Chinese market, meeting the wants and needs they have for the product), and as such, the 5C does make sense. It's NOT the range topper, but it's still seen as a premium device there compared to other devices.

eagle

if all there is is £80 difference I know I would not go for the 5c ...

jaytc2003

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the Chinese had a cheaper copy out before apple designed it!