If you love the iPhone 5c, here’s a painful chart, courtesy of analytics platform Mixpanel: Growth of the iPhone 5c is pretty much stagnant at just around 6% (roughly where it’s been since Christmas), even as the iPhone 5s has achieved a 20% share of the iPhone market, overtaking the iPhone 4 and approaching the iPhone 4s in popularity.
iPhone 5c sales: A rare flop for Apple
iPhone 5c sales have not gone as expected for Apple. Many people predicted Cupertino would unveil a low-cost iPhone for emerging markets alongside the iPhone 5s. But what Apple instead did was release a midrange phone that was nothing but the iPhone 5 in a plastic shell: cheaper for Apple to manufacture, but not a device midrange customers were necessarily clamoring for.
It seems pretty obvious at this point that Apple will kill the ‘C’ line when the iPhone 6 launches, but what will take its place?
Via: MacPlus
