Apple Won’t Make A Low-Cost iPhone Unless It’s A “Category-Killer”

RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky recently met with Apple bigwigs COO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and came out talking about the possibilities of a cheap iPhone. href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/05/rbc_apple_would_only_launch_low_cost_iphone_if_it_had_category_killer_experience.html">As reported by AppleInsider, ”apple’s primary criterion for launching a lower-end iPhone is an innovative, category-killer experience,” said Abramsky.

In other words, it wouldn’t be just to capitalize on an opening in the market, it would have to absolutely dominate it.

I don’t know about you, but I think an inexpensive, new iPhone would be an automatic product killer. The sales numbers of low-cost and free-on-contract Android phones really speak that there is a huge market out there of people who don’t want to pay for a smartphone, which means they have to use Android or WP7 — and I bet most of them would jump on an opportunity to use iOS.