Apple hits the brakes with its iPhone 5C. There will be those who think that this happens by launching an economic model for 600 euros . This equipment was presented a month ago in order to renew the iPhone 5 in the Apple catalog, accompanying in turn the iPhone 5S, the true star of the firm for the offer of smartphones. The iPhone 5C also had a clear objective: to colonize the Chinese market in order to expand the margins that this family of device has in the world sales share. But the bump is proving important. At least important enough to force the company to order that they slow down the rate of manufacture of the iPhone 5C.
We have learned this from the prestigious North American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, where they refer to the statements coming from the two production plants of the telephone, Foxconn and Pegasus. According to the aforementioned media, the first would have reduced the production volume of the iPhone 5C by 30 percent, while the second would express the braking by 20 percent compared to the initial pace. On the other hand, they say from The Wall Street Journal, supplies for production dropped by 50 percent, with which there is no estimate that the pothole is punctual or will rise in the coming weeks.
However, the sales rate that is established between the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C is estimated to be truly unbalanced. There are no official data in this regard, so the conclusions vary depending on the sources consulted. In the Chinese market it has come to be expressed in a ratio of eight units of the top-of-the-range model for each unit of the iPhone 5C. In figures cited by All Things Digital for registered sales in the United States, the balance is a little less disturbing for the colorful new edition of the apple phone: 64 percent of the Apple phones that were sold were some of the editions of the iPhone 5S while only one27 percent are iPhone 5C. The ratio is two to one.
In our country the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S will be available from next October 25. The model that is hitting the bump will cost between 600 and 700 euros, depending on the internal memory that it equips, while the iPhone 5S, which is the one that really integrates more or less significant new features, will be worth between 700 and 900 euros. That being the case, why save 100 euros when the difference in benefits may well be worth it?
On the other hand, operators will not be able to use the iPhone 5C either as an attraction to seduce their customers with accessible offers, shielding themselves from the same strict policy that Apple imposes on distributors, knowing that users have begun to enter through the market ring of free phones. That being the case, it does not seem likely that the iPhone 5C will take off in sales in our country. At least not with such prices.
