Although the iPhone 4S sells very well in most countries where it is available, the device has many problems and all because of iOS 5, which Apple did not properly test to eliminate all problems. Of course, the common man does not differentiate between a software problem and a phone problem, so everyone says that the iPhone 4S has problems, and in South Korea users are starting to regret the purchase of the device. It seems that the mobile operators have managed to sell less than 150.000 iPhone 4S terminals since the launch on November 4 and until now, although initially they had registered almost 300.000 pre-orders.
The iPhone frenzy in Korea may be fading as consumers reject Apple's iPhone 4S for hardware-related problems and opt for handsets that support Long Term Evolution (LTE). SK Telecom and KT, the local authorized sellers of the Apple phones have received order cancellations and actual sales of the Apple devices remain low, according to officials familiar with the matter. SK Telecom and KT have reportedly reached 300,000 in combined sales of the new Apple handset after pre-orders opened weeks ago with unexpectedly high traffic temporarily causing the companies' websites to crash at one point.
That's not true. The actual sales were below 150,000. As people made pre-orders with both SK Telecom and KT, as well as a certain local carrier's policy to allow one customer to order a maximum three of the iPhone 4S, the numbers were out of control,'' said one SK official requesting anonymity .
Consumers are currently putting off buying an iPhone 4S because of problems with the battery, with the GSM signal, with the Wi-Fi, all software problems that, unfortunately, have not yet been solved by Apple. In addition to software problems, there is another impediment, the lack of compatibility with 4G LTE networks, a standard that in South Korea is starting to attract a lot of users. Practically in the home country of Samsung, consumers are not really that interested in the iPhone 4S anymore and on the one hand it is normal considering that Samsung has a very rich offer there, it has terminals with screens large enough for any eye and The 4S apparently only has problems.
If Apple manages to solve the problems with iOS 5 in a timely manner, then many users will be happier and sales will follow the same upward trend. If this doesn't happen then things probably won't be so great for Apple.
