Entrepreneur and tech industry insider Jeffrey Yuwono wrote an article for TechSpot today claiming that the iPhone 6 released yesterday was already dead on arrival.
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The killer? Not Apple's lagging stock price, not Samsung, not Apple suddenly losing its cool reputation--but Apple itself. Yuwono believes by releasing the bigger iPhone 6 Plus, Apple is cannibalizing iPhone 6 sales, dooming the flashy device to failure.
"I don't even know why Apple bothered with the iPhone 6," Yuwono complains, "because it will go the way of the iPhone 5C: a niche product; a consolation prize; the budget choice for Apple loyalists; something you get begrudgingly and regret later."
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Whether the iPhone 5C is actually a failure is up for debate, but the narrative that consumers didn't want to be seen with "the cheaper iPhone" in their hands is a pervasive one.
Yuwono predicts that the iPhone 6 "will be the ugly step-sister to Cinderella. Except for personal preference over size and price, the iPhone 6 Plus is categorically the superior phone."
The iPhone 5C sold over 25 million units, a number many competitors would be jealous of--and it's still alive, listed as the budget option in Apple's new smartphone line-up released yesterday.
Regardless of Yuwono's condemnation, the iPhone 6 is in the top tier of smartphones on the market, and better than last year's flagship iPhone 5S, albeit incrementally.