How is a 3D phone a game changer? Didn't HTC already make one a few years ago? Are they still selling it?Not that anyone else has come up with anything that different. If Amazon produces a 3D-like screen as is the rumor, that could be a game changer, but nothing that Google, Samsung, or Amazon has produced to date is anything special.
My guess is that they re-released the iPad 4 because they wanted to have a full-sized device at the $399 price point as the iPad 2 had finally run its course. In 2012 the mini generated most of the sales growth, while the Air in 2013 seemed to shift it back to the larger size.
Apple needs new, big innovations to start rolling out, faster and faster. Or, they, we, analysts, etc need to accept that Apple is shifting from a growth company to an income company like Coca Cola and quit carrying expectations for amazing YOY growth. Griping and calling analysts stupid doesn't change revenue numbers. Only buyers change revenue numbers. If Apple's YOY growth is hugely important to us individual consumers and "we" own the latest of everything Apple puts out, we've more than done our part. Apple just needs a lot more of us to show up. Or Apple needs to deliver something else(s) that makes "us" want to buy that something else(s) too.
It's uncanny how this is constantly posted in analyst threads - specifically ones that predict not-so-rosy pictures.
If you tuned out, why are you posting? Why did you even bother hitting the "reply" button? How do you even know what the analyst said if you tuned out?![]()
I can only see a rise in iPhone sales if they release a new iPhone in Q2, otherwise that doesn't make sense.
More accurate headline: "Analysts predict Apple sales based on numbers extracted from rectal cavities"
It's possible that some of these guesses are correct, but based on past precedent, if they are, it's not much better than dumb luck. They're going to make up some plausible numbers, then irrational people will buy or sell AAPL based on them, then after the actual announcement an overlapping group of irrational people will buy or sell AAPL based on how Apple either beat or failed to meet the predictions. And whether said people buy or sell will not necessarily be in direct relation to predicted or actual performance--exceeding expectations has no guarantee of not generating a selloff. for example.
At least it's better than the firms that make wild guesses about what the market will look like in five years, then release confident-sounding reports with precise numbers based on them.
Don't understand the defensive nature from the comments in this post.
Think about it. It's been a few years. There's a pretty hefty saturation of tablets in the market now. The iPad isn't *that* gamechanging anymore--hell, I love iOS as much as the next guy but it is seriously under-optimized for tablet screens.
No reason to think that iPad sales haven't peaked. You don't need a degree to deduce that, just common sense and a general understanding of the tablet market.
But like I said, most analysts aren't that bright and their knowledge is far from advanced or even "in line" with most professionals.
Bullcrap. The apologists that defend what is clearly a lack of focus need to understand that the "iOS way" and the "Android way" (for example) is not black and white.
iOS can still be a great platform and also utilize the space on tablets better. It's not up to me what that design would look like either--it's up to Apple. No one is clamoring for the iPad variant to look identical to Android. We want something that is still "simple" but also effective--right now, we don't have that. We have a blown-up iPhone OS with the occasional split pane to wow us as to how great they utilize their space.
No.
A great company will rethink the UI and introduce something that is effective and intuitive. I work at a software company and we attempt to do that very thing. Iteration after iteration of progress, trying to get closer and closer to cracking that balance between a useful and intuitive UI. Spacing out tiny icons over a larger space is flat-out lazy this day in age.
And yet, they get paid very well to write their very wrong comments about Apple while people like you are I post our very right comments about Apple for free.
What I've noticed around here is that analysts who write positive things about Apple are lauded, quoted, cheered on, etc and analysts who write negative things are stupid, know nothing, perpetually wrong, etc. Sometimes it's the same analyst who is apparently shifting from being genius to moron to genius again.
Again, they are paid to write their comments about Apple. That doesn't automatically make them more right than those who write counterpoint for free but someone thinks their views are valuable enough to pay them for them.
A great company will rethink the UI and introduce something that is effective and intuitive. I work at a software company and we attempt to do that very thing. Iteration after iteration of progress, trying to get closer and closer to cracking that balance between a useful and intuitive UI. Spacing out tiny icons over a larger space is flat-out lazy this day in age.
iOS 7 on iPad is a joke. Just a blown up version of the iPhone OS. Something they used to make fun of on Android. Apple's attention to detail is slowly fading.
How is a 3D phone a game changer? Didn't HTC already make one a few years ago? Are they still selling it?
Did Macrumors changed the headline? Because I don't see any apocalyptic one
The consensus estimate from 21 Wall Street professionals and 13 amateur analysts predict iPad sales of 19.3 million, a 0.7 percent decline in Q2 2014.
If it is done right, it could be a game changer, or at least something significant. After all, there were touch screen phones before 2007. The iPhone was the first one done right.
Please continue your thoughts and explain why 3D will change everything in the mobile space. I don't understand myself so since you "get it" please share with us who don't.
Literal, no. Implied, from the way I read it, absolutely. There is nothing in the headline to suggest this particular "decline" is not a big deal or routine.
Apple needs new, big innovations to start rolling out, faster and faster. Or, they, we, analysts, etc need to accept that Apple is shifting from a growth company to an income company like Coca Cola and quit carrying expectations for amazing YOY growth.
.... they will still make more money than google and samsung combined,
All I read was "Analysts Predict...", and I tuned out.
There is no $1000 iPad. The most expensive iPad Air Cellular 128GB is $929.I wish I didn't upgrade my iPad 2 to the iPad Air. I paid $1k for this thing and it certainly wasn't worth it. It's buggy as heck, the LTE rarely works, the Camera wasn't as big of an improvement as I'd hoped it would be and it's buggy as heck - crashes at least once a day. I justified the price in my head because I sold my old iPad 2 for $250 and Best Buy had a great $130 christmas promotion but still $1k....
There is no $1000 iPad. The most expensive iPad Air Cellular 128GB is $929.
what is this obsession with a firms profits?.. it's rolled out over and over again... Maybe cos that's the only thing left to brag about.....
For what it's worth dont Samsung actually make more profit.. Do I care.. nope... It effects me as much as the guys banging on about it.. absolutely zero...