Apple Forecasted to Report Record Earnings Next Week, but Will iPhone 8 Keep Driving Growth?

[djcerla]

Ahh, the wonders of the internets: You get to be anyone you want to be.

You > The rich investor who never errs, so take your stock advice as gospel!

Unless, I've just wrote that I DID INDEED err, holding my full stake through the recession.

The "wise" decision was not to sell to a loss like many did, but I did err nonetheless (and that's what was "painful") by not selling immediately and buy back later to a huge discount.

Ahh, the wonders of the internets.
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Which invariably end up being minor variations of one another, and which typically bring in razor thin margins for the companies. At the same time, you further tax your supply chain and lose the economies of scale that come with manufacturing a single product at scale.

Nor does it make sense. What kind of message are you sending if you release 2 iPhones with 2 radically different designs? Either it's the best or it isn't. If you believe that one particular design is the "best" possible, then why aren't you putting all your resources behind that one "best design"?

Isn't it ironic that advice for Apple invariably revolves around telling Apple to stop doing what is working well for it, and to copy what other far less successful companies are doing?

O. K., so it's "feasible" indeed.

I may be old school, but words meaning still has some importance to me.

 

[ValO]

No they arent. The non existent file systems and tools avail to use the os are clunky (fingers) and inprecise. Some other company (google)? will figure out a real solution to mobile computing of the future, but ios, in its inevitably crippled form, will not be it.

You like to talk about mac os as being 'the past' with ios being 'the future'. But cant you see you are probably being as stuck in the dirt as us mac enthusiasts, clinging to what you are comfortable with, and assuming therefore thats the 'future'?

In 2 years the only difference between mac(os) and a future ios(pro or pados) will be the gui (touch vs mouse/trackpad operation) and the fact that mac(os) runs on x-86 cpu and ipads on arm socs.

In the 2 years after that, mac(os) will make a transition to arm(socs). So then the 2 os' es will be the same "under the hood" , and will only differ in the way you operate it(touch vs trackpad/mouse) .

So apple os' es will be in essentially the same with a few dedicated extensions for each device.

 

[Rocketman]

My basis: $0.40.

You rock!

 

[robeddie]

In 2 years the only difference between mac(os) and a future ios(pro or pados) will be the gui (touch vs mouse/trackpad operation) and the fact that mac(os) runs on x-86 cpu and ipads on arm socs.

In the 2 years after that, mac(os) will make a transition to arm(socs). So then the 2 os' es will be the same "under the hood" , and will only differ in the way you operate it(touch vs trackpad/mouse) .

So apple os' es will be in essentially the same with a few dedicated extensions for each device.

Um, no.

 

[ValO]

Um, no.

Ok, your opinion. Very rigid though. What will happen next then?

Your opinion is that nothing will change?

My opinion is that there will be a pro line, iMac pro, Mac Pro(perhaps) and MacBook Pro they will feature a x-86 CPU and os for a niche group of professionals that's need the horsepower and special pro software.

But there will also be "regular" non pro iMacs and MacBooks and I believe they will transition to arm socs and arm based Mac OS.

Can' t wait for apple to introduce GUIkit.

 

[nextuser]

Ok, your opinion. Very rigid though. What will happen next then?

Your opinion is that nothing will change?

My opinion is that there will be a pro line, iMac pro, Mac Pro(perhaps) and MacBook Pro they will feature a x-86 CPU and os for a niche group of professionals that's need the horsepower and special pro software.

But there will also be "regular" non pro iMacs and MacBooks and I believe they will transition to arm socs and arm based Mac OS.

Can' t wait for apple to introduce GUIkit.

Why would you be of the opinion that there will be a pro line?

You can argue that *today* the pro line no longer exists. In two years it will be a distant memory.

My opinion is that all of the power users will leave the platform and search for something else. And Apple will be left catering to the lowest common denominator. None of the A-players will want to develop software for Apple, because none of them want to work for a bean counter like Tim Cook, they want to work with other equally talented people.

Mac OS X (sorry I refuse to call it macOS) and iOS are already essentially the same operating system.

 

[Lankyman]

In 2 years the only difference between mac(os) and a future ios(pro or pados) will be the gui (touch vs mouse/trackpad operation) and the fact that mac(os) runs on x-86 cpu and ipads on arm socs.

In the 2 years after that, mac(os) will make a transition to arm(socs). So then the 2 os' es will be the same "under the hood" , and will only differ in the way you operate it(touch vs trackpad/mouse) .

So apple os' es will be in essentially the same with a few dedicated extensions for each device.

What you assert is a nightmare scenario fit to grace the pages of a Stephen King novel. Windows here I come.

 

[wolfaaron]

I'm disappointed with their price hikes for the Macbook Pro lineup. I was a fan back in 2011 when I bought my first Mac, I even became an app developer for the iOS ecosystem. But now the prices of their Macbooks are way too expensive. And the sad thing is that they didn't improve them enough to warrant such a huge price hike.

 

[Lankyman]

I'm disappointed with their price hikes for the Macbook Pro lineup. I was a fan back in 2011 when I bought my first Mac, I even became an app developer for the iOS ecosystem. But now the prices of their Macbooks are way too expensive. And the sad thing is that they didn't improve them enough to warrant such a huge price hike.

I was reading an article on them today - UK magazine. It commented that "these new MacBooks do feel like a computer from the future (the punch line) - a future where laptops are nigh unaffordable".

I have noted that for the first time I can remember in a long time, if at all, Apple are using TV ads in the UK to promote their new lineup. I suspect with the price increase plus the fall in the value of the pound sales are bound to take a hit. The 15" i7, 512 gig model is now a whopping £2,700, if you fully load it the price shoots up to £4,050. Crazy prices.

 

[Dave245]

I was reading an article on them today - UK magazine. It commented that "these new MacBooks do feel like a computer from the future (the punch line) - a future where laptops are nigh unaffordable".

I have noted that for the first time I can remember in a long time, if at all, Apple are using TV ads in the UK to promote their new lineup. I suspect with the price increase plus the fall in the value of the pound sales are bound to take a hit. The 15" i7, 512 gig model is now a whopping £2,700, if you fully load it the price shoots up to £4,050. Crazy prices.

I'm in the UK, i think the prices are high, but first gen Apple products usually are high, there was report from a few months back that Apple will drop the prices of the MacBook Pro in 2017 (i.e. this year). The fall in the pound has probably had an effect as well.