Ruh-Roh - Will Sony be dwarfed by Apple's iPhone 7 conference?

[thismeintiel]

ebw said:

thismeintiel said:

My sources tell me that everyone interested in the PS4 Neo are Android users who don't give a crap about the new iPhone. 

Seriously, though, WW which do you think is going to gain more attention?  A console that has captured 55%+ of the WW console market? Or a phone that has captured about 15% of the WW phone market?  Sure, in the US and a few other countries the Apple announcement will be big and take up some of the headlines, but sites will make sure to keep both near the top of their front pages.  Everywhere else in the world, the PS4 will be shown more interest.

Hmmm, a console that's sold 44 million units worldwide since launch 3 years ago, versus a phone that's sold 200 million units in the last year alone and which has about a BILLION active users.  There are a lot of people who give a crap about the new iPhone, probably more than any other device on the planet.  To be fair it is tempered by the fact that the iPhone is much more mass-market and the PS4 is somewhat more specialized (with the great success of the PS4 also comes a higher proportion of casual customers).  The logic you propose would imply that since Apple Watch has a dominant share of the smartwatch market, the world will be paying more attention to the Apple Watch 2 than the iPhone 7: I seriously doubt that.

200M units?  Yes.  1B ACTIVE users?  Lol, no.  Apple makes quite a bit of their money from a lot of repeat buyers who MUST have the new iPhone every year.  That's not to downplay their success, cause 200M is still nuts.  I'm just saying ~1/7th of the world's population is not on iPhones.  They'd have WAY more marketshare than ~15% if that were true.