{"id":228,"date":"2012-09-26T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veracitek.net\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2012-09-26T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:27:55","slug":"iphone-5-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/iphone-5-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 5 predictions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone is selling below expectation, but that doesn&#8217;t mean much. Since when does expectation not follow an indefinite upward trend? Investors know that indefinite upward trends don&#8217;t exists. As usuall they limited their initial production batch. So they &#8220;sell-out&#8221; even when sales are below expectations. That&#8217;s just good marketing. 5,000,000 is a lot of phones.<\/p>\n<p>The long-term determination of a post-Jobs Apple may not be their marketing. It definitely won&#8217;t be their screen tech. It most-likely won&#8217;t even be their processor. What it will probably be is their battery.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has a long history of sealing batteries into their products almost as though they never expect this consumable part to ever wear out. A throwback to 15 years ago that has since been innovated out of everything right down to musical greeting cards. However, Apple is always thinking about the release cycle.<\/p>\n<p>For the iPhone 4 the official cost of replacing your battery is $79 and up to 5 days (<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/index?page=servicefaq&#038;geo=United_States&#038;product=iphone\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Service Page<\/a>). However, with most cell plans, the phone itself doesn&#8217;t even cost that much. So what will people do? They will buy the next one. Ingenious&#8230; but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A big BUT, is that LTE (4G) is a battery burner. If Apple&#8217;s iPhone 5 battery is anywhere near as obsolete as some of the other components (like the screen tech, it&#8217;s still LCD instead of OLED which also happens to burn much more battery), then they will be disappointing users within a month or two of release when the charge capacity falls. Even under warranty a 5 day turnaround is no fun.<\/p>\n<p>So come Thanksgiving time, keep an ear out for the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone is selling below expectation, but that doesn&#8217;t mean much. Since when does expectation not follow an indefinite upward trend? Investors know that indefinite upward trends don&#8217;t exists. As usuall they limited their initial production batch. So they &#8220;sell-out&#8221; even when sales are below expectations. That&#8217;s just good marketing. 5,000,000 is a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[224,51,38,221,226,225,223,222,37],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-tech","tag-4g","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-battery","tag-iphone-4","tag-iphone-5","tag-lcd","tag-oled","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}