Apple iPhone 6s – early pricing in SA

[Kevin Lancaster]

Apple iPhone 6S – early pricing in South Africa

Several local retailers have started selling the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus – here’s how much the smartphones are going for.

 

[Spotja]

Lol!

 

[ghostR]

Wut

 

[Rocket-Boy]

for sure some fool will pay that.

 

[Looney]

Haha, I'll wait a month and get it from the U.S. Waaaay cheaper.

 

[whatwhat]

Once again people don't know the difference between importers selling at a markup and the Core price.

But for the next few months you'll have people going on about how the iPhones cost 16k for the base model.

 

[whatwhat]

Haha, I'll wait a month and get it from the U.S. Waaaay cheaper.

Yup, just use Aramex Global shipper and you'd have yours already. Cheap as chips.

 

[Vice]

Insanity...:wtf:

 

[Fudzy]

Why is there still a 16GB version?

 

[prod]

Why is there still a 16GB version?

Well you can have a full 30mins of 4k video with that! Amazing

 

[Fudzy]

Well you can have a full 30mins of 4k video with that! Amazing

If you take out the OS footprint and all other apps. It's one of the few points that Apple doesn't understand about market requirements.

 

[prod]

If you take out the OS footprint and all other apps. It's one of the few points that Apple doesn't understand about market requirements.

It's disappointing yes, 12GB is easy to fill with Music alone, nevermind 4k video. I can only assume it's a drive to get people to buy the 64GB version and spend more $ ?

 

[Fudzy]

It's disappointing yes, 12GB is easy to fill with Music alone, nevermind 4k video. I can only assume it's a drive to get people to buy the 64GB version and spend more $ ?

They'd only need to take a median of the current storage requirement to see that 16GB is as pointless as a 1GB flashdisk. My guess is their suppliers have overstocked on 16GB memory stocks and they are trying to run them out.

 

[Bryn]

You'd think the importers would set only slightly unreasonable prices to move their stock quickly before iStore and local service providers shut the party down.

Lol @ Macnificent. What an awesome name for an Apple reseller. Not all their prices are terrible. Their markup on the top end MacBook Pro US store price is 13%. Less than the VAT you'd pay importing one yourself.

 

[PostmanPot]

Please fix title, 6s not 6S.

 

[SAsoccerfan]

Will probably be cheaper to fly to the US and buy one, compared to pre-ordering from these guys

 

[SauRoNZA]

It's disappointing yes, 12GB is easy to fill with Music alone, nevermind 4k video. I can only assume it's a drive to get people to buy the 64GB version and spend more $ ?

Or simply pushing cloud/streaming options instead of local storage.

Think about it. If you have Apple Music and even the small 50GB iCloud account what do you really need all the local storage for?

It's really just a placeholder until you get on WiFi again, that's if you aren't on Uncapped LTE anyway.

In America and the first world in general the 16GB can make a lot of sense, and the larger ones are really the niche sizes.

Don't get me wrong though, I agree that it is very silly to still have the 16gb around with such a huge disparity to the next jump.

Just like the 128GB MacBooks are equally daft.

 

[11masoodt]

There's a simple reason why Apple keeps selling 16GB, even though everyone is asking for a 32GB: Profits.

If, hypothetically, there was a 32GB option, most people would be happy with that and the mix of sales between the 32GB, 64GB & 128GB variants would be quite heavily weighted towards the 32GB (and somewhat to the 64GB). However, with a 16GB option, the consumer is forced to rethink whether that is enough (when they probably know it isn't), and will be influenced to buy a 64GB rather (or a 128GB, since he/she is going big, might as well go as big as you can). This way, the mix of sales between 16GB, 64GB & 128GB will now be more weighted towards the 64GB & 128GB models, which means more money and more profits.

All Apple is doing is forcing the consumer to shift over to the higher priced 64GB & 128GB models, because after all, the 64GB offers 4x as much space for just an extra $100! To the AVERAGE consumer (who isn't very tech savvy nor very conscious of these things) that is a deal and a half

 

[RogueTr00per]

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All Apple is doing is forcing the consumer to shift over to the higher priced 64GB & 128GB models, because after all, the 64GB offers 4x as much space for just an extra $100! To the AVERAGE consumer (who isn't very tech savvy nor very conscious of these things) that is a deal and a half

I disagree, the consumer who isnt tech savvy doesnt know a GB from a MB so they go and buy the cheaper 16GB version.

 

[whatwhat]

I disagree, the consumer who isnt tech savvy doesnt know a GB from a MB so they go and buy the cheaper 16GB version.

People will buy the cheaper phone, a $100 is actually a lot of money to most people in the US. So Apple upsells them the iCloud storage plan.

Regardless of it, selling a 16Gb phone in this day and age at that price is ridiculous.