Apple is currently in a slump compared to the last few years, purely because its latest iPhones are just so expensive.
Yet, the company is still running on a high thanks to one particular type of customer. Yep their saviours this year are Android users.
The iPhone XR is the (somewhat) budget-friendly version of the company's latest lineup. And as it turns out, a lot more Android users are lining up to switch teams and buy it. That's according to a new report by the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, which found that 16 percent of iPhone buyers in the month after the launch of the iPhone XR in October 2018 where previously Android loyalists.
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Following the launch of the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus in September 2017, 12 percent of iPhone buyers were Android users. But after the iPhone X came out in November the same year, that number dropped to 11 percent.
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The increase this year then might be thanks to another detail the report uncovered. At a starting price of $749 (Rs 74,900 in India), the iPhone XR is the most popular of the latest iPhone models. It alone gathered 32 percent of iPhone sales in the US in the month after its launch, while at the same time the more expensive iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max made up a combined total of 35 percent.
Hopefully Apple takes the popularity of the iPhone XR into account in future, and realizes that it's phones are more popular when they're actually affordable.