NEW YORK () -- It's no secret that the is slowing,专业加工制作手镯，实惠的价格，超赞的品质。. Apple () shares have dropped sharply over the past nine months on iPhone sales concerns. Chief competitor Samsung last night that weren't good enough for investors. If Apple's going to get its "groove" back, it's going to have to do something different.
Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White has a research note that a which many analysts have suggested previously, would allow Apple to compete in China, and recapture some of the lost magic Apple had over the years.
"We believe a $350 to $400 price point for a lower-priced iPhone would make sense and 42% below the $649 price point for an unlocked 16GB iPhone 5," White wrote in his note. "A $350-$400 price range would also be competitive with China-based Xiaomi that offers a high-end phone experience at a mid-range price of ~$320 in China. We believe a $350-to-$400 price point will allow Apple to significantly expand its reach in the smartphone market and better address developing markets such as China,专业加工/制作/批发/零售玛瑙手镯/手环，手镯零售, while opening up more opportunities in Brazil, Russia, India and elsewhere."
The chief concerns about a low-cost iPhone are gross margins. Apple has extremely high gross margins for a hardware company north of 37%. They have been coming down in recent quarters, as Apple has introduced lower priced products to hold on to or recapture market share, including the iPad mini. A low-end iPhone could potentially hurt Apple's margins.
Lower margins might be worth it for Apple, especially if it can capture some of the low-end market, especially in China. Apple is behind competitors such as Samsung, ZTE and others in China, as its products are priced out of the reach of many consumers. Many of these lower cost smartphones run Google's () Android operating system,专业手镯批发，实惠的价格，超赞的品质。, which has a dominant market share across the globe. As of the end of the first-quarter, Android held 75% of the market, as opposed to Apple's iOS, which owned 17.3% of the market.Perhaps that's been one sticking point on a deal with China Mobile (), the world's largest wireless carrier. White notes that China Mobile has 735 million subscribers, "or 63% of the country's mobile subscriber base." However, he doesn't expect a deal with the world's largest carrier to happen until 2014.