Exactly. Apple is never going to have the volumes of $100 phones.
Why is this even news?
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Apple Loses Fourth Place to Xiaomi in Booming China Smartphone Market
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Exactly. Apple is never going to have the volumes of $100 phones.
Why is this even news?
It looks like a few years ago China was trying to crack down on telecom subsidies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...bile-taking-steps-to-cut-smartphone-subsidies So that's probably a big reason why the sales aren't so great. If you took away subsidized plans here in America, there would be tons of people who couldn't afford an iPhone.
You just stated why market share is important in your own post. After purchase revenue streams.
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Fanboy much?
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Millions of people feel differently.
Right? It's painfully obvious.
As an expat living in Mainland China I very much agree, the iPhone simply does not differentiate enough versus the local providers. I see more and more switching to Huawei, iOPPO, Xiaomi etc. There are are also many others, nor are these phones cheap junk as some would like to portray, with the high end models being very decent smartphones. I have a Huawei P9 myself and have zero complaint.
Apple want's to improve it's numbers. it needs to work on both value & features, or the trend will continue. Another aspect is the software image, the Chinese companies are providing phones with the software that works for the indigenous population, with some only catering for the Chinese market, some a little like Japan they reserve the best for the domestic market. Hence Apple's interest in India...
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Trust me, Apple is not laughing at losing 30% of it's sales from last year.
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It's news because the share dropping has led to a sales dropping by 30% in China from 2015. That is news isn't it?
That's already the case for a lot of customers. I pay full price for my iphones now; and I buy the directly from apple.
It is a dangerous to assume that the competition remains still, while in reality the hardware gap is narrowing, significantly.
We have seen this effect with a number of industries lost to foreign countries:
- TVs used to be American made (Zenith, Westinghouse, Emerson, Silvania, et al), no more.
- Professional cameras used to be German (Leica) and Swedish (Hasselblad), no more.
- "White" appliances used to be American made (GE, Maytag, Whirlpool, et al), no more.
Apple is facing that narrowing, hardware-gap reality.
Personally (this is just me) I would not consider the Pacific-rim cars to provide proper aesthetic substitutes, exterior and interior, but the quality of their hardware has already narrowed. (The Korean and Japanese brands, even including Lexus, have yet to assimilate exterior design language that stands the proof of time, like a Porsche 911, Audi TT, BMW 8 series, ... but that is not a market they are vying to.)
Apple's linchpin product, in terms of hardware, is facing partial parity in both features and quality, which is priced lower to their own. The only remaining gap is on the services.
So, software and services is where Apple must continue to excel in geometric, not just incremental, terms to this competition as to retain their real/perceived value.
If not, they will face a similar fate to the other industries I listed above.
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It's also dangerous to assume, apple will stand still. They are the best chip designers in the business, have a huge services infrastructure in place; provide top notch-support.
It's true over the last 60 years, some things have changed significantly where america has given away their stronghold in various industries, it is also true, some great work is being done US. How this all plays out is anybodies guess.
"Apple translates to a healthy ecosystem"
Err.... what? Tim Cook is destroying the ecosystem, neglected product by neglected product.
5 years ago in Hong Kong MTR (subway) literally EVERYONE was playing the iPhone. Nowadays it's not such a common sight anymore. But hey, maybe if they make it thinner, no ports, and more expensive, Apple will gain market again?
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This post pretty much sums up Apple software under Tim Cook - a mountain of cash and completely unwilling to spend it to improve product quality.
Why do I get the feeling the iPhone 8 won't live up to expectations?
Because you're not relying on any facts to reach your baseless conclusion.
Yep, and that's all consumers care about is Apple's revenue per device.
Agree absolutely, I7guy. On both counts:
- Apple leads with in-house, custom/bespoke chip design
- Apple leads with built-in, app services and in-store support
Without Google's free-to-all Android software, and cloud-services, the competition would be lost, unable to compete. Google has made it possible for the competition to dedicate themselves to hardware, relying on Google to provide soft "intelligence".
This is why items (1) and (2) are essential for Apple to maintain leadership. Agree totally.
Are you sure?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I use both iPhone & Samsung. If Apple doesn't give info to authorities on the terrorists I'll only be using Samsung until they give info.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/700795170023825408?lang=en
I want to see a "YOU SPOKE - WE LISTENED" campaign, where Tim Cook makes the MacBook Pro great again.
I know when I go out ot buy any product, the first thing i Look for is a item that provides as much profit back to the company as possible. It doesnt matter if the production cost is the same, I spend more just for the benefit of providing profit to the company.
I hear there are lots of headphones with jack plugs in China....
Apple didn't have China in the beginning.
Those Chinese phones are cheap and practically disposable.
It may not one the whole country, but there still are lots of people who prefer to buy an iPhone over any other phone.
Even a 10% of the market brings a lot of revenue to Apple.
No doubt, China has phone for every taste and budget. That's why it's China.
Since he can't seem to utter a word without lying, no, I'm not sure. I do know that the Secret Service wouldn't let Obama use Android for security reasons. I believe he was stuck with a modified Blackberry for quite a while, but at some point they relented and gave him an iPhone.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SidBeers/status/700795280959082496
Trump may be allowed to use anything he likes if they consider him to be already compromised. They are holding back sensitive information from him, so there's little risk on that front.
LOL!
Totally. No need for secrecy with this numpty-elect.
As sure as sunrise, he will blast on Twitter, akin to a 13-year old teen, using upper case and bold signs, random and raw thoughts without introspection -- all to the charm of his flock.
Now, let us hear back from his protective flock, striking back, in 1, 2, 3...
Sadly, that's apparently how some of these people think. They like to trot out that profit like it's something that impacts them. And isn't market share shrinking? Less product sold, less profit but some of these guys think market share means nothing.
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You mean like Hillary supporters are doing? Except, they are actually you know, assaulting people, destroying things but hey, let's trash Trump. You people are ridiculous.