I wonder how well the Apple Watch did this holiday season....
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Apple Dominates Holiday Sales With Nearly 50% of All New Device Activations
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This is definitely the case for me. I remember laughing at my friends' large phones a few years ago when I had my iPhone 5. I had to eat my words.
Same with me lol. And it is also possible to use it with one hand. It takes practice. The secret is basically to move your 4 fingers freely in the back and use your thumb to reach or press. When typing with the keyboard, use your pinky as a dock for a brief moment.
Similar to the analogy of a car (small) and an SUV (big). Once you know how to get around an SUV, a car is nothing.
Same here. I can't comprehend how I used a 4" iPhone. It's almost nothing. It's a tiny baby toy. Hardly anything fits on the screen.
Tbh as an iPhone 6/6ss plus user for a year I think the size can be cumbersome sometimes. If Apple give the iPhone 6s the same camera and same battery life I will go for the smaller one.
If Apple had 49% of the activations, while small phones were 54%, an overwhelming majority of large-screen phones activated must've been Apple devices.
(I'll let somebody else fine-tune the tablet/phone distinction. But still.)
This would be especially tough on Samsung, which makes the overwhelming majority of its profits on large-screen phones.
Also noting a small share for small-screen tablets, suggesting that everybody who got their kids a baby-sitting device did it a year ago, and that iPads very likely dominated the tablet category, too.
Not terribly surprising. Who wants to give a BrandX device for Christmas? But as they say, still.
(I'll let somebody else fine-tune the tablet/phone distinction. But still.)
This would be especially tough on Samsung, which makes the overwhelming majority of its profits on large-screen phones.
Also noting a small share for small-screen tablets, suggesting that everybody who got their kids a baby-sitting device did it a year ago, and that iPads very likely dominated the tablet category, too.
Not terribly surprising. Who wants to give a BrandX device for Christmas? But as they say, still.
I actually want a phone that can expand into an 8" tablet.
iPhone's hoilday sale is declining, meaning iPhone is missing steam. iPhone's decline is only starting, people start to realizing they don't need spend top dollar for smartphone and iPhone is not the best phone anymore.
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It's entirely possible that Apple sold more units during Christmas 2015 than they did in Christmas 2014... but the entire market could have grown too. We don't know because Flurry didn't give us any actual numbers.
Apple was down in percentage... but percentages are based on the size of the entire market at any given time... so it's kinda hard to make a conclusion.
I like to think we, forum users, help Apple keep focused by both challenging and applauding them.
It's the whole world, or at least the world that downloaded and used an app with Flurry Analytics embedded in it. Such apps are how they track new devices.
The time period is for the week leading up to, and including, Christmas Day.
Activations of device apps after Christmas, or of devices where the user doesn't download and activate an instrumented app, are not included.
I looked into getting my dad a cheaper than iPad tablet for Christmas, but those other android ones had some sort of downfall to each one, and if I wanted a tablet that had it all, it would be either the mini or Air.
Decided to wait and just hand down to my dad my Air 2 whenever the Air3 is out.
Decided to wait and just hand down to my dad my Air 2 whenever the Air3 is out.
Sales were down YoY. The trend ain't Apple's friend right now. The phone market is saturated, the watch ain't selling, iPad sales are down pretty big, the computer premium ain't worth it anymore, and the AppleTV... 2016 should be a fun year for the 'Apple Phone Company'. Stock should get hammered most of 2016 as the rest of the planet enters a nightmare debt scenario. Emerging markets are finished, and commodity exporting countries are about to get slaughtered. Buy your 'Puts' folks, iPhone sales will decline for the first time in 2016 - Bank on it. Easy money.
I can go with that plan. Does the screen size have to really dictate the physical size of the phone? The top and bottom bezels are taking up too much space. If they can build a 4.5~4.7" screen size with the 5s (or slightly larger) dimensions with the top of the line specs, I would be lining up at the Apple store to get mine...
Its important to point out that the export decline comes effectively solely from a single area: Hong Kong, an area thats been economically tumultuous since this Summer.
Other areas were a mix of stayed-on-pattern (from -14) or even a rise. Some Apple Watch markets have seen export growths as high as 40%.
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Not their profits, at least not NOW.
Their values however, surely so.
Hey, great time to share a link to a great article I found recently:
http://tidbits.com/article/16078
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But it fits in my shirt pocket. That's why I like that form factor. I use it primarily as a communication device and occasionally play simple games. A 4" iPhone would be perfectly fine with me.