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Apple CEO Tim Cook 'The Smartphone Market is Very Healthy'
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What's really scary is Google, they pretty much own the whole internet. They need to break up that company bigtime and split YouTube away from them.Apple is too big to fail. The whole iPhone userbase depends on them.
Services for?? iPhones?
Accessories, you mean dongles for?? iPhones?
Mac's.. the way it's is going, the future of Mac is very bleak!
Apple is too big to fail. The whole iPhone userbase depends on them.
If they had an imbecile running the company, their cash stock pile alone will last them for a while in the worst case scenario
Nice try... Apple margins are within industry norms and lower than Samsung's.
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That is so funny!
"That's the problem when you have an accountant running a company, they look at the numbers, not what got them there."
What got them there? You mean the outstanding products Apple develops and the tens/hundreds of million customers who repeatedly open their wallets and willingly give Apple their currency for those premium-priced outstanding products? Year after year after year?
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Same thing with Samsung...
Screens? For phones.
Memory? For phones.
Everything they make is for phones.
You have no idea how big Samsung are. They built the Burj Khalifa and the Petronas towers.
They even make tanks. Here's an educational video for you. You're welcome.
"Whether it grows one percent or two percent or five percent or six percent or 10 percent or shrinks one or two percent, it's a great market because it's just huge."
This makes no-sense. Sinking something does make it grow... I see, reverse decision making
This makes no-sense. Sinking something does make it grow... I see, reverse decision making
"Whether it grows one percent or two percent or five percent or six percent or 10 percent or shrinks one or two percent, it's a great market because it's just huge."
This makes no-sense. Sinking something does make it grow... I see, reverse decision making
It seems that he’s saying whether the total number of smartphones (not just iPhones) sold per year are slightly higher or slightly lower they are confident in their outlook for profit and share.
"the market is huge" - just like the iPhone notch. Largest notch / forehead / chin on the market
Well don't use one especially while driving... In many places just picking one up while behind the wheel is illegal.
They are as Addictive as hard drugs if you let them dominate your life.
IT is up to you to not let them dominate your life.
You can start by not using Social Media. I don't. Never have and never will. You might be surprised at how much of your life you can get back if you do.
Thats what I am saying??? The products got them there, numbers don't mean **** if you don't keep on investing and sinking money into your product line, or creating the next product line.
Apple aren’t growing they are selling roughly the same number of iPhones but have increased the price so their revenue increased. Which is great. They are maintaining their market share in their established markets but haven’t been able to make any breakthrough in places like China and India and that’s why unit sales are flat.
What is happening in the rest of the market is that people in places like China and India are preferring to buy cheaper midrange android phones instead of buying a Samsung flagship. This doesn’t effect Apple because those people were not Apple customers.
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But Samsung sell far more phones at lower costs.
Apple sell very few products at far higher costs than its competitors.
So the margin they make in percentage terms brings in more money per unit sold on average than other manufacturers.
They are basically making more profit than everyone else for every product they sell.
You can even see this effect in there own product line like the iPad Pro vs iPad. There is no way the margin in the 400 dollar iPad is the same as the 800 dollar iPad Pro version. The extra features do not cost 400 dollars for them to add. So the margin made gets larger the more the product price rises.
Even look at the memory prices they charge for the iMac. To put 32gb in with Apple costs a lot more than if I did it myself. Yet they can buy memory in bulk and get the memory even cheaper than I can. So Apple take advantage of premium buyers by increasing the margin for the more expensive products.
Which is why I said it will be a blood bath for cheap phone producers because the margins at the low end are not the same as in the high end. Margins are on a curve basically. They are not uniform.
Actually the addictive potential for smartphones has not yet been quantified but it is very likely costing a double digit percentage hit on productivity in some parts of modern economies, through impaired educational achievements, workplace distraction and the development of "gambler's brain", ie: short reward cycle, inability to complete longer term tasks, etc.
As such, if smartphones were considered as a drug, manufacturers could become targets for fines and punitive measures by governments much as big pharmaceutical companies have been.
But eh, who cares.
"Whether it grows one percent or two percent or five percent or six percent or 10 percent or shrinks one or two percent, it's a great market because it's just huge."
This makes no-sense. Sinking something does make it grow... I see, reverse decision making
How do you maintain growth in a shrinking market? Increase prices, and differentiate! We saw that last year with iPhone 8 and X. The X helped improve the average selling price of iPhones for 2017 ~ ($780?). Now, They're offering TWO new iPhones ($899 and $999) that are higher priced than the 2017 ASPs, you get the idea.
Tim cook knows how to play the numbers game.
You do realize that the iPhone X is the _only_ smart phone to utilize 3-D facial mapping in terms of the biometric security? So if that is not revolutionary in terms of cameras, sensors and a dot projector that the projects over 30,000 infrared dots to authenticate and analyze your face, then I don’t know what is.
Interesting.. I think you are just talking about Samsung electronics, not Samsung!
Exactly. Samsung Techwin used to make military hardware like tanks and weapons. Samsung C&t and Heavy Industries made the Burj Khalifa, Petronas towers and are one of the largest shipbuilders in the world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Heavy_Industries . Samsung Financial have a range of trust funds and financial portfolios. Mobile is a miniscule part of Samsung overall; their company comprises of
Samsung Electronics
Samsung C&T Corporation
Samsung Heavy Industries
Samsung SDS
Samsung Life Insurance
Renault Samsung Motors
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance
Cheil Worldwide
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So you want YT to go under?
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Nowhere near true.
Nice argument you have there!
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"Samsung" is also not a company, but a group of companies.
People stop buying Samsung TVs, dishwashers, cars, etc. people stop buying oppo phones. Doomsday for all.