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The Apple rumour du jour is that Cupertino will be holding an event on September 21st, where it will announce the iPhone 5 and an iPad mini, ready for shipping sometime soon after that.
This is, of course, an anonymous rumour, although according to iMore it comes from “sources who have proven accurate in the past”. Take it with a pinch of salt, but that’s about what we were expecting in terms of announcement time frames.
Whether this is the iPhone 5 we’ll see, who knows. I have to say, I quite like where the iPhone rumours have been heading on a design aesthetic at least. Time to get saving your pennies; under a two months now to find some £500 for a new iPhone, if the rumours are to be believed. [iMore]
The iPhone 5 Will Be Released From £529 on September 21st, Pre-Orders Start September 14th
Gah I wish it were sooner so we could get these rumour articles over and done with
Amen! Announce it last week already!
The Galaxy SIII ones were bad enough and I was actively following them!
Of course, once these rumours are out the way, a month later all the iPhone 6 rumours will start…!
Too right, what else will we be able to speculate wildly on?
If a smaller iPad comes out, I don’t think they’ll call it iPad Mini…
It’ll be more likely that it’s called iPad Nano, or iPod Maxi
the “Maxi Pad”…makes sense since all Apple users are basically p*ssys
whoops… my “/end_troll” tag didn’t show up; of course I love all you apple users out there
“Time to get saving your pennies; under a two months now to find some £500 for a new iPhone, if the rumours are to be believed” A quick bit of maths shows you’ll need to be saving 820 of those pennies a day. And frankly if you go into the Apple store with 50,000 pennies it may take you a while to get your phone.
Ha ha, now that’d be a good video — all those clapping Apple store people, suddenly turning sulky at the prospect of counting all those pennies.
Here’s a question. How many people do they have seving in an Apple store on launch day. If you have that many people with bags of pennies queue up simultaneously you could hold up iPhone sales for hours.
Normal companies don’t have to accept pennies as payment. It is only Banks that HAVE to
I know, the above was entirely a jest.
Didn’t we have an article in the past about being fined for paying for things with too many pennies and loose change?
If each penny weighs 3.56g then a bag of 50,000 of them would weigh 178kg so you better start weight training as well!
Half a grand for a new phone…wow, the mind boggles!
That said, I would imagine that all the iPhone and iPad apps would have to be scaled to fit this new form factor, as both devices have screens with sizes that differ from current models. Either we’re going to have some ugly apps or someone is going to have to rewrite their apps.
“Time to get saving your pennies; under a two months now to find some £500 for a new iPhone.” But they aren’t sheep, they will save and buy without knowing anything about it, but they aren’t sheep, no sheep to see here – Baa.
I think these models are make it or break it time for Apple, they don’t seem to be able to get that market share pass a user point of 50m, which isn’t bad till you consider Android is heading for 500m by the end of 2013. They need to expand the user base drastically over then next two years, and that means doing an Android. They are diversifying their market but it means nothing without selling the right product at the right price – they need to use that 100billion in the bank to start giving phones away – and look to extras and media for profit, or even break even. As short term profits are great, ask Kodak, but without real leverage on the market and expanding on basic users you are only ever going in one direction. So far the last few years have shown that Apple are good at selling a limited phone to the same millions of hard core Apple pips – that is good, but far from perfect, and a deeply major concern for the future of the iPhone.
PS. If you don’t see Apple failing, like it did in the past have a look at this chart:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/29/visualized-the-idevice-influence-on-apples-bottom-line/
Every product range is down apart from the iPad being slightly up. iPhone slightly down, Portables down, iTunes down, desktops down, iPod down, software down, peripherals down. And worst still the majority of that market is selling the same sheep an updated product, these people would buy the iPhone made from recycled cardboard while praising Apple for a turn around on its green policy.
I see some serious trouble if direct intervention isn’t taken fast.
I will just add, Apple is currently valued on two products, iPhone and iPad, the rest of the company is relatively worthless. This is what all that legal action is all about, if someone takes a small chuck of that phone and tablet market then what is Apple as a company?