Customers increasingly prefer the 64- and 128-gigabyte model iPhone, leaving aside the version with 16 GB internal memory.
According to AppleInsider, RBC Capital Markets analyst conducted a survey, which was attended by 6,400 members. 64% of them stated that they intend to buy an iPhone with 64 GB of internal memory, 16% choose a 128-gigabyte version. But the 16-gigabyte iPhone model proved to be advantageous for the 33% of respondents, while last year it selected 40% of the respondents. Also in 2014, interest in the iPhone with 64 GB of memory and 128 showed 48% and 12% of the total number of respondents.
More about 20% of the new survey, RBC Capital Markets said they plan to sign up for the program iPhone Upgrade Program, under which they will each month for two years pay at least $ 32.41 in exchange for the opportunity to receive a new iPhone every year warranty AppleCare +.
According to analysts iPhone Upgrade Program, iPhone shipments at the end of the last quarter was 45.2 million, and in this quarter will increase to 78.2 million, which will contribute to the launch of sales of iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. By the way, Apple sum up the results of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, ended September 30, October 27, 2015 during the traditional telephone press conference.
A Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes, meanwhile, reported that a major supplier of integrated circuits, whose name is not called, is concerned about the prospect of reducing the volume of orders from Apple's chips for the iPhone. The report, according to AppleInsider, was the cause of two-percent drop in Apple shares early trading on Thursday, October 1st.