Try this:
I agree, and Steve struggled with "genuine innovation" as well. Ipod yes, maybe iphone. But we all have our definitions of what innovation looks like.
Fair enough. This conversation is a can of worms; so I will say I respect your opinion, although not entirely agreeing with it.
Apple has fallen to fifth place in China's booming smartphone market, where combined sales reached 131.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, accounting for nearly a third of worldwide shipments. The Q4 figure confirmed the highest ever annual amount of smartphones sold in China, according to market research firm Canalys, with shipments for the year reaching 476.5 million units, rising 11.4 percent from 2015 levels.
Huawei shipments of 76.2 million units took the top spot in China's smartphone market in 2016, followed by Oppo with 73.2 million units and Vivo with 63.2 million. Apple meanwhile shipped 43.8 million units, down 18.2 percent year on year, influencing the company's 7 percent decline in global shipments compared to 2015. Apple also lost fourth place to Xiaomi, despite the Chinese maker also experiencing declines in the country.
Huawei's success in China continued apace on the strength of its flagship products, said Canalys research analyst Jessie Ding. "While Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi are all in the process of adjusting their strategies in China, Huawei took the opportunity to consolidate its position in the tier-1 and -2 cities." The lull also allowed Huawei to attack Oppo and Vivo's backyard "in tier-three and tier-four cities," Ding noted.
Last year Apple experienced its first ever year-over-year decline in the Chinese smartphone market, with the company's phones continuing to be outpaced by cheaper alternatives and the iPhone 7 failing to kick up a frenzy among consumers compared to previous launches, according to analysts.
Apple faced a similar story at the beginning of the current year. Despite recording record results, Apple's Q1 2017 earnings call revealed revenue was down 8 percent in China, but CEO Tim Cook claimed half of that decline was down to currency devaluation. Cook said that while China was "not without challenges", he remained "encouraged by improvements" going into the second quarter.
Analysts have previously suggested that Apple's decline in China has been compounded by loyal users taking a year off upgrading in 2016 in anticipation of 2017's "iPhone 8". If so, Apple's success there depends on whether the upcoming phone can live up to the hype.
"China and Hong Kong are still the hardest-hit areas in Apple's global top ten market," according to Ding. "The outlook remains bleak for Apple to get its China performance back to its heyday of 2015. As with consumers in other developed markets, China's consumers are awaiting the 10th anniversary of the iPhone with very high expectations."
Article Link: Apple Loses Fourth Place to Xiaomi in Booming China Smartphone Market
Now that's the best BS: made from snippets of the truth! Apple loses marketshare for the same reason BMW and Porsche lose marketshare: they're not interested in making a cheap product and selling it at high volume/low margin. Simple as that. Sure, technically BMW and Chrysler are selling to the same market, just as Apple and Chinese knockoffs are selling cell phones to the same market, but I think we all know there are segments of the market that Apple and BMW are more interested in than others.
You get a clue. Market share is a meaningless statistic. Apple is competing against companies that are losing money while Apple makes billions, so Apple is winning, full stop. Many of these companies will not be in business five years from now because they believe that they can make up for losing money on each sale by making more sales!
You are spewing meaningless blather. Nobody is saying apple does not have the highest markup. So just stop it. You are moving the goalposts and bringing up something that has NOTHING to do with it.
Do you know how silly you sound? Samsung and Sony don't even make the list in China! By you're argument, they're already dead. Samsung does manage to make a profit, though apparently not much of one in China.
Profits mean money to invest in the future, so I can buy a better iPhone in a few years. Losing money but gaining market share means less money for R & D, so lower quality iPhones in the future.
The problem is that you are years behind in what you think you know.
Wow. Talk about being years behind! You actually think that the tech specs matter! Quality is about much more than clock speeds or memory. Software is king, and none of those companies owns the code that runs their hardware. But hey, I'd love it if you'd go buy a PC and frequent a PC forum. Leave Macs and iPhones to the rest of us.
What people get bored? The issue is that this is a general statement, that's applicable to all platforms. And I disagree Apple is playing catch up, their socs are best in class, and they don't throw hardware around without adding some value above and beyond the competition.
Throw in some hyperbole, make some generalization add together and a post with no point ensues.
