Unless you've been living under a rock, I'm sure you heard several news stories about Apple's iPhone 6 launch this past weekend. The Cupertino based company claims to have sold 10 million iPhones on launch weekend, and they very easily could have sold more if supply could meet demand. Regardless of what we think here, Apple is going to sell a ton of their new devices.
Of course, those record breaking sales haven't gone unnoticed by other major players, especially Samsung. Samsung has announced that they will speed up the release of the Galaxy Note 4 to try and curb some of the momentum behind Apple's iPhone, starting with an official announcement and unveiling of the Note 4 this Thursday in South Korea. The device will go on sale on the 26th, the day after the announcement ahead of its original October launch. As of right now, this only affects the launch date in South Korea, so we may not see anything happen quicker in other parts of the world, and it's not clear if they're speeding up the launch of the Note 4 Edge, either.
Samsung is aiming to ship 15 million Note 4s in 30 days, which is a very tough goal to accomplish, especially if other parts of the world stick with their mid-to-late October release dates. Still, if anybody on the Android side of the fence is going to take some wind out of Apple's sales, it'll be Samsung.
Do you think Samsung's Note line will continue to sell well, or will they lose some market now that Apple has their own giant-sized offering?
source: Korea Times
Reports of the 6+ bending in pockets is going to turn more than a few people away. The thing has an epic engineering fault.
I’ve already seen several people opt to go for the smaller 6 or are now looking at androids.
The Note 4 should sell well despite the iPhone 6 Plus.
The iPhone 6 Plus will be bought by iPhone loyals who are ready to try something large. They probably weren’t buyers of Android phablets anyway. It remains to be seen how many iPhone loyals will go so large. I think that the vast majority of sales of iPhone 6 will be the smaller model. If you’re used to a 3.5″/4.0″ screen, 4.7″ is a big jump up in size. I’m guessing that relatively few iPhone 6 Plus versions will be sold.
If you are a devout Mac user, a 6+ iPhone gets your attention. My problem is I use both android & mac daily. Both are good. Samsung & Apple will be fine. The smaller dogs get less consumer dollars in this fight, tho! I want to see and hold these new models; and then choose . . . maybe November? I don’t think either company will have stock on the shelf by EOY!
I think it’s to late for Samsung. They didn’t listen the voice of their consumers when they had a chance.
Your comment makes no sense. Samsung offers many phones with a range of features and prices. Apple is the one that might be too late to the large screen market. Apple doesn’t listen to customers – it produces just one phone.
I dont think many current Note users that are used to having the latest and greatest unrestricted features are gonna suddenly jump to the featureless dull Iphone.