It is now about 15 minutes after iPhone preordering open and , yes , the Macalope believes we can say categorically that the iPhone 16 channel is an abject failure .
Sad . sure as shooting it will be pulled from the securities industry soon .
This might seem too soon but it is not the earliest an Apple ware has been declared ail by poor sale . In late memory , the prize die to the Vision Pro , which was reportedto have production snub in the summer before it was loose . Not only that , these “ drastic ” production cut were describe to be to 400,000 whole . Nine months later , after the Vision Pro ’s dismissal , another outfit report Apple was undertake “ unfavorable ” production bring down to … 400,000 unit of measurement .
Yes , the Vision Pro ’s production figures were reduce double to the same number . Honestly , the Macalope ’s not sure how you top that . That should be enshrined in the Apple Doom Hall of Fame .
no matter , it ’s another year , another set of iPhones , but the same look of doomsday :
“ earpiece 16 first weekend pre - order analysis: … Pro serial demand depleted than expected “
Yes , according to Ming - Chi Kuo , both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are undercut their iPhone 15 Pro counterparts . Kuo estimate that sales of all four iPhone 16 models extend to about 37 million units in the first weekend after Apple began live with pre - orders , which is down nearly 13 percent liken to first - weekend sales of the iPhone 15 series last year .
That said , the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are sellingbetterthan the class - agone models .
While first - weekend sale of the iPhone 16 Plus and standard version were up YoY , their encroachment on total iPhone load is limited .
Hey , didn’tsomeone in a dapper suit and adorned with antlerssuggest just last week that the standard models would do well this year ? turn out whoever that might have been was right . And unco good-looking . Fun at parties . Cries while watching nerd movies . Etc .
There ’s a average bit of speculation going on that the job ( assuming there really is a problem here ) is AI . Please sense costless to make your own Scooby Doo meme of Fred pulling the mask off the ghostwriter and it ’s AI . The problem with AI is like a rephrasing of that old joke about the food for thought being bad and come in such little component part : no one wants it and it ’s not get along for months .
“ These Two Apple Intelligence Features Not Expected Until iOS 18.2 ”
Sadly , those two thing are not “ Any sort of relevancy for most customers ” and “ Not being tell to eat a barrel full of rocks and imbibe a skillful glass of liquid grievous bodily harm when asked for easy weeknight dinner recipes ” . No , it ’s Genmoji and Image Playground , a playground the Macalope imagines you will find connected to Uncanny Valley Grade School in Trained On Other People ’s body of work Without Their Consentville .
Lotta unearthly place names in the upper midwest .
The iPhone 16 batting order is a nice set of phones and their sales physical body are based on a lot of complicated variables , some own to do with the life cycle of premature phones , inflation , confidence about the future and many other factor . The Macalope , a long - prison term fan of the iPhone mini , is finally afford up and buying an iPhone 16 but for sure not for AI . For theCamera Controlbutton .
Remember those predictions that AI would get a super cycle of phone sale ?
“ Top Goldman Sachs analyst says the Earth is move into a new crack cycles/second ”
That was January . And here in September … . yeah , looks like that ’s not happening . And it ’s not because Apple is rolling out these features slowly . Most of AI is just another big tech effort to geld out the interlocutor , only this meter the contact is n’t hack companies or hotels , it ’s writer and artist . That was n’t something people were clamoring for . Do n’t be surprised when they do n’t induce out to slap down $ 1,000 for it .
