Detroit Free Press

Many consumers demanded bigger screens and the move paid off for Apple. The larger iPhone was Apple’s best-seller ever.

But not all Apple consumers made the switch.

According to research firm Parks Associates, one-third of Apple iPhone owners still have a model that is more than two years old, compared to 30% of Samsung phone owners.

From the article "The New SE Will Be Virtually Alone Among Popular Rival Smartphones In Its Height" by Jefferson Graham.

That all makes sense, but could the concept of cord cutting be overblown?

Only about 5% of U.S. homes with broadband Net service have cut the pay TV cord, says Parks Associates research analyst Glenn Hower. “We are not projecting really any increase in that,” he says.

That’s confirmed by a recent eMarketer analysis of recent cord-cutting research that deemed it “more myth than reality,” with perhaps 1 million U.S. cord cutters expected in 2014. Rather, consumers are more ...read more