Leap Could be Left With $100 Million in Unsold iPhones
Prepaid mobile carrier has around 5.3 million subscribers.
U.S. prepaid carrier Leap Wireless could be left with as much as $100 million worth of unsold iPhone units.
The firm, which operates Cricket Wireless, told the Wall Street Journal that it's considerably behind in its prepaid iPhone sales. When it completes its year-long contract with Apple in June, it's likely to have sold half of the iPhone units it committed to selling.
Apple partners with prepaid carriers in an effort to attract more lower-income consumers. Leap currently has around 5.3 million subscribers but is affected by the fact that it has less network access than America's major carriers.
With Leap's no-contract plan, consumers pay nearly full price for the iPhone but are then charged a lower amount for monthly payments when compared to carriers that require two-year contracts. By paying Apple a small subsidy, Leap offers the iPhone 5 for $500, which is around $150 less than buying the smartphone from Apple itself.
no matter what thou, if u go with a major carrier u will get screwed up the A
The best price I could find for that phone is $450 unlocked. While I do agree the iPhone is overpriced. A lot of people don't care about specs. It's about will it do what they want it to do and how easy is it. As an onsite computer technician. I can say for certain that most non tech savvy people find the iPhone much easier to use. Which is a huge selling point.
The other problem Android being the fragmentation. You get a new phone from another maker and it is different. A lot of people don't like change they get frustrated because they don't understand what programs are and get frustrated when things look and act different. These people just memorize what to push to get the result they want. With a new iPhone they get that. The new one is just faster than their old one.
Now this company screwed up big time. People going with some tiny regional carrier because they are penny pinching are not going to spend $500+ on a new phone. If they get an iPhone they are much more likely to bring a used iPhone they got off eBay or Craigslist. More likely they are going to get an Android or Windows Phone they can pick up for $100 to $150. Probably the Android because when people think Windows they think viruses and crashing.
I didn't want to re-quote your whole run-on paragraph, but you stated these as if they were fact's when they are not, then followed it up with "this is just their opinion." The only "Opinion's" you stated, was "They find the Android OS a little uglier to look at, and they find iOS easier."
Android users also,
"don’t have to first read if the app is compatible with your phone" (the store will not display applications to you if your device is incompatible)
"don’t have to install other stores like the Amazon store app to get the free app of the day" (android works just fine without the Amazon store, and only advanced users should allow 3rd party installs)
"don’t have to think about the SD card to store and retrieve information" (Most models come with 8-32 GB built in, but even with 4GB I have never run out of space for apps and phone functionality)
In addition,
there are menu and backk buttons on the bottom of the phone to add usability (how does a "back" button confuse anyone? Back always goes to the screen you were on before the current one...)
There are add on storage slots for increasing the phones storage for a portion of what "built in" storage costs.
There is one thing I agree with you on though. " Just get the phone you like or can afford"
Dear Tom: that's not a sentence.
Partners is a verb in this case.
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http://www.iphonebenchmark.net/passmark_chart.html
http://www.androidbenchmark.net/passmark_chart.html
The old iphone 5 still beats the brand new Samsung Galaxy S4 (and that's the decked out S4 losing).
However, if one looks at the price per performance then android takes the cake.
http://www.iphonebenchmark.net/passmark_chart.html
http://www.androidbenchmark.net/passmark_chart.html
The old iphone 5 still beats the brand new Samsung Galaxy S4 (and that's the decked out S4 losing).
However, if one looks at the price per performance then android takes the cake.
two completely different benchmarks for 2 completely different phones I like what you did there, stating unrelated nonsense as fact of something the benchmarks do not show that really is commendable.
apple is good too but Im not sure where you are going with this.
wow... for a company working with a low income market they have absolutely no idea who their customer are do they?