are you insulting the kiwis?

What was in that wine?

I reckon they would if the could. After all, if they gave the user what they want they make money. Apple just don't have the ability to do that right now..... for whatever reason.

yep -product led not customer led.

Hope the arse falls out of their pants cos until they respect their customers, the shares will keep falling

Its kind of basic actually.

When they knocked together the original iphone out of bits they had lying around, they made certain design decisions. That included no real multi-tasking, fixed resolution screens, ring 0 UI and an emphasis on 'gadget' rather than 'computer'.

Those design decisions are what have come back to haunt them. They need a root and branch refactoring to allow them to fix the issues. However, to do so means an effective 'clean break' with the existing design - and as the iphone5 shows, they don't really want to do that.

Thus fixing their problems is always put off and they fall further behind. Maybe they have a nu-iphone design waiting in the wings, fixing all the problems and giving a firm basis for the future, but it would take real guts to implement it, and they don't have anyone left with those guts.

Eventually they will be forced, by failing market share and stock price, to change - but in reality its probably already too late to recover. They are going back to the historic position of 'also ran'.

Don't disagree at all. Have you read the book Consumption Economics? I think you would enjoy it

I've been in need of a new phone for a while, I was waiting for this new supposedly inexpensive iPhone but found that it was about the same cost as two large screen TVs. Ended up going to ALDI, their 4" Smart Phone does all that I want for $148. I can synch it with my MacBook, take pictures, send receive SMS, has GPS built in and will even make and receive phone calls. Has some other feature that I will probably not use.

A simple question.... can you answer it with one hand whilst wearing gloves?

Kinky.

iPhone 5S 16GB - A$869
iPhone 5S 32GB - A$999 ($130 more for 16GB)
iPhone 5S 64GB - A$1129 ($130 more again for 32GB)
iPhone 5C 16GB - A$739
iPhone 5C 32GB - A$869 ($130 more for 16GB)

Nexus 4 16GB - A$299
Nexus 5 - guessed to be ~A$399



http://www.news.com.au/technology/sm...-1226720156089

Found this feedback - not sure if it's the same phone?
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum....cfm?t=2151236

Big price difference!

Wonder what GB the Nexus 5 will have?

Typical price hikes in the Android world for 16 > 32GB are A$40-50, and that's almost all profit. $130 looks to be purely based on how easy it is to stitch up the fanboi customer.

The guess is 16 & 32GB - but one of Google's Achilles heels is a liking for Cloud over physical storage.

Isn't this low cost option (cough cough) designed to attract the huge Asian market. I wonder what the costs are in these regions?

It's the same with tablets. I just got the new Google Nexus 7 32Gb tablet for $321 on a price match with Officeworks (under $300 as I have just been out of the country). ipad mini 32Gb is about $550 and the N7 is a far superior device - its display knocks the socks off Apple's Retina (which the mini doesn't have)

http://mobile.news.com.au/technology...-1226723427827