Apple Boosts A18 Chip Orders in Anticipation of High iPhone 16 Demand

[spcopsmac21]

I'm confused. Most of the arguments you're giving here are Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm catching up with what Apple has been doing. Yet you argue they "market to the 30-something consumer from 2008"?

(Incidentally, the 30-something consumer from 2008 would be a particularly poor potential customer for Apple, what with an economic depression and all.)

When you manage a workflow of around $700,000,0000 in a very specific market segment, and the consumer of that segment has starting moving away from iOS and MacOS, and you have to hire twice as many Windows based developers.
Let me know.
Because until then your apples to oranges is worth nothing to me and just a personal observation.

 

[spcopsmac21]

You wrote: "PCs and Android phones are doing some crazy stuff."

Let's take a look at what's happening with Windows PCs.

• Microsoft adding ARM CPUs which are good (Apple already did)
• Microsoft adding AI technologies built into the operating system (same as Apple is doing)
• Microsoft delaying AI technologies (Apple is also implementing these over the course of a year)
• Microsoft adding feature to ARM-based PCs versus Intel-based PCs (same as Apple is doing)
• Intel and AMD is finally going to be on 3nm chip technology (Apple already did)
• Qualcomm has a fast, low powered chip (Apple already did)

So what is the crazy stuff happening on PCs?

They are starting to strip away at apples market shares at an alarming rate. That’s what they are doing.
Apple use to be the market lead in almost every pinpoint you made.
Yet now they are not.
And consumers have less money to spend and what it to go further.
Well that’s NOT happening at Apple.
Soon Apple with deliver nearly nothing that’s unique.

The consumers my company caters to are requesting and migrating from MacOS and iOS at an alarming rate.

May say all you want.
But the iPhone 16 and the next wave of Apple machines won’t wow anyone.
It’s gonna feel exactly like last year.
“ BUT NOW WITH AI “

I guarantee it.

 

[chucker23n1]

When you manage a workflow of around $700,000,0000 in a very specific market segment, and the consumer of that segment has starting moving away from iOS and MacOS, and you have to hire twice as many Windows based developers.
Let me know.

Enterprise apps these days are largely web apps anyway, making that moot.

And "our entire fleet runs on vendor X" is rare these days. IT likes to do that, but then the sales department says "I prefer iPhone", then the CEO says it, then several top managers threaten to quit if they don't get to use an iPhone, and so forth until IT gives up because it's a silly fight.

BYOD.

 

[chucker23n1]

They are starting to strip away at apples market shares at an alarming rate. That’s what they are doing.
Apple use to be the market lead in almost every pinpoint you made.

When was Apple's market share higher than it is today?