If they can steal credit cards, why bother with phones?

Well, in my case the person went in with no idea what I had in my pocket and just happened to get the iPhone.

I was there last week and tried to buy one. The SIM free price from the Apple store (the only place you can buy SIM free) was 87800JPY, plus tax for a 64Gb iPhone 6. Take your passport and you won't pay the tax. However, I tried all three Apple stores in Tokyo and you had to make a reservation for the following day at the earliest so, if you want to get one make it the first thing you do on the trip or check stock before you travel.

I'm back home, safe and sound, and the replacement iPhone was waiting for me. Only problem was that they still come preloaded with an old version of IOS, so my initial attempt to use the iCloud backup failed.

The steps for me (T-Mobile) were:

Go to my T-Mobile to reactivate my phone number which had been turned off just after my loss.
Open box
Get SIM number off the card. (how can Apple, with all their design wizardry make you stick a paper clip into your phone to eject the SIM, but I digress)
Enter the new SIM number online via my T-Mobile
Turn on phone and follow steps
Attempt to setup using the iCloud backup.
Fail, since the backups were from a newer version of the software.
Frantic Googling ensued.
Set up phone as a new phone
Download the software update.
Go into settings and wipe the phone
Set up again, this time choosing the iCloud backup.

From there on it was smooth sailing, all the apps came over as did my all my contacts including those flagged as favorites. I haven't checked them all, but so far only one has asked me to reenter the acct/password. The only other thing I needed to do was to set up the fingerprint recognition and reenter my email passwords.

I even got back all my photos except the few I'd taken the day of the theft after the last synch.

Only thing left to do is to schlep to the Apple store to buy a new case.

Overall, a happy camper.

You guys do know that an operating system isn't a political party affiliation or a religion, don't you?

For some it is a religion.

Have this one stoned.

Is he in Colorado?

-David

Back when the iPhone 6 came out I decided to stick with the 5s since I didn't see much value add with the 6. Now it seems that my opinion is a popular one as iPhone 5s sales are shooting up.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/iphone...soc-gen-2015-4

You are correct. It's much more important.

I do like the form factor of 5s. The 6 is a bit too big for my liking.

different countries, different buyers.

many countries didn't get the iphone 6 or 6 plus at launch and still haven't.. also, the 5s was/is always cheaper than nearly any 6 or 6 plus so the price focussed buyer may buy one instead of the other. The volume of 5s to 6 or 6s in other countries I would think is going to be several multiples compared to the USA/NA multiple..

So, not truly a trend

Posted by a Facebook friend who owns an iPhone 6:

Why would you assume this is from "other" countries? There's no data on that, but I know from anecdotal evidence and from my local Orange store here in France that after the initial burst of iPhone 6 sales that the 5s is outselling the 6 now. It's due to both the price and the quality of the 5s and like the article said, this has never happened before with previous iPhone releases. Obviously because the newer iPhones were always significantly better. Til now.

I like the 6 form factor (but I agree the 6+ is almost a mini-tablet ).

But I dislike the lack of grip from the new case. I'm forced to use a silicon case in order to avoid it slipping from my hand.