Mac sales are really disappointing from my perspective. Apple silicon is magnificent. Why they can't still sell at least double more from 2009?
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Apple Reports 3Q 2023 Results: $19.9B Profit on $81.8B Revenue
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I am very sceptical about Apple's future. How far can it go up? Now they have a profit of $20 billion per quarter. So if they only have $15 billion per quarter next year, the stock will go down.
Especially the iPhone has a very uncertain future. It might still be a success, but if sales go down a few percent per year one day, confidence of the investors will also go down. Smartphones have already reached a peak. There is hardly any room left for innovation. Cameras have reached physical limits. You could only make them even better if you increase the size of the sensor and the lenses. Computing power of smartphones is already high enough for the most demanding tasks you might throw at a smartphone. Any further increase in screen resolution will not be visible to the human eye anyway.
I also see that same problem with notebooks. Most people will never need more power than our notebooks have today. I had my last notebook for nine years until it felt so slow that I had the urge to get a new one. My current notebook will probably last me another eight years at least.
Apple constantly will have to invent the next big thing. Apple Vision Pro certainly isn't it. And will the Apple Car really be so revolutionary that millions will buy it?
I think Apple should change their business model and build skyscrapers instead
Especially the iPhone has a very uncertain future. It might still be a success, but if sales go down a few percent per year one day, confidence of the investors will also go down. Smartphones have already reached a peak. There is hardly any room left for innovation. Cameras have reached physical limits. You could only make them even better if you increase the size of the sensor and the lenses. Computing power of smartphones is already high enough for the most demanding tasks you might throw at a smartphone. Any further increase in screen resolution will not be visible to the human eye anyway.
I also see that same problem with notebooks. Most people will never need more power than our notebooks have today. I had my last notebook for nine years until it felt so slow that I had the urge to get a new one. My current notebook will probably last me another eight years at least.
Apple constantly will have to invent the next big thing. Apple Vision Pro certainly isn't it. And will the Apple Car really be so revolutionary that millions will buy it?
I think Apple should change their business model and build skyscrapers instead
They are too expensive especially here in Europe. They've gone from just about to affordable to out of reach for the majority.
Just wait until Apple will be forced to allow side loading and see how many will keep paying more for the same apps and subscriptions just to give Apple some revenue stream 😂
Fun fact: at the end of Tim Cook career as Apple ceo he will not have released a single product half as successful as iPhone, iPad, or Mac which were all released under jobs.
Cost. They are unreasonably priced so the market just ignores them.
Why? Macs are quite good and a long time in use. Apple Silicon sold like hotcakes when it came out. I bought my MBA M1 on release. Since then, nothing arrived that would made me upgrade. No reason. Best Mac I ever had. Does everything I want to do and more. Minimal speedbumps or imaginary transfer speeds (the M2 MBA was SLOWER then my M1) will not convince me to spend another 1500 Euros.
Same with the iPhone 15. A minimal refined iPhone 14 and that was practical identical to my iPhone 13. Why upgrade?
If you look beyond the adverts, ignore the loud screaming influencers (I got a hands on and a smile from Tim) and look at the actual product, you are absolutely fine with one, two, in some cases 3 generations back. It also becomes way more affordable. Why do you think they left the MBA M1 on sale? But took the iPhone 13pro out? Because the M1 is still best in class and the 14 is the 13 but more expensive.
Unlikely. What could you sideload in order to get Apple stuff cheaper? We are talking about Apple services. Even without sideloading you can have other subs of third parties, everything is replacable. But why? So save $2 a month but then have to miss out on integration?
Sideloader want to get cracked games or "free" apps because they do not believe in paying for someones work.
They can do that. Will not affect Apple services.
Not really, Apple was at one point 78% iPhone and is now at under 50%. As planed. However, Profits going up. Ever since. The dividend payes all new gadgets one wants.
One and only 3 Trillion company.
Really, "just iPhone". Indeed.
Why? 5% more Battery? 2% more performance? Really? For only 2000 Euros?
Got some AAPL in 1999. Small invest of just over $20000. Bought a house in the mean time by selling some stock (pre dividend) and with whats left over I can live comfortable until the end of my days. Really, I have no complains. When I looked yesterday and there was 3T written, I can just smile.
I can't say anything against Tim Cook, he financed a very nice life for me here at the Mediterranean Sea. Others helped, sure, but AAPL is a trusty source. Somehow they know better whats what then forum users.
People seem to think that Apple is a company for users and a charity on top. Apple seems to look at it differntly. They are in it to make money. And they are world leader in that regard.
Accumulated graphs are always misleading… iPhone drops are concerning, looks like at the moment Apple are being propped up by growth in wearables and services. Let’s hope iPhone demand in the 15 range is strong! Needs to be!
I think Tim is a lame accountant without style or vision.
BUT he has been CEO for 12-13 years and he hasn't raped apple for resources. He has invested in new products, new technologies and moved the company forward with a long term vision. The available data just doesn't support your conclusion. He has been CEO a long time. We know how he operates.
I’ve bought 3 of them and I still have no idea what they’re for. The last one sits unused on a table. I think they made sense for content consumption when iPhone screens were 3.5”, but with pro Max phones and Apple TV/Roku I never seem to choose it. I stick to my Mac for everything else.
Especially with inflation. During inflationary times owing people a lot of money is great!
Still holding on to my airport. Every time I think of upgrading I cannot do it. It never...never is the problem with wifi in the home. Just does its job flawlessly for every device every day.
Apple notebooks are very slow at generative AI...particularly image generation. This is going to be a basic part of every creative persons workflow in the next 2 years. It's a big deal. So....there is always a reason for more power.I am very sceptical about Apple's future. How far can it go up? Now they have a profit of $20 billion per quarter. So if they only have $15 billion per quarter next year, the stock will go down.
Especially the iPhone has a very uncertain future. It might still be a success, but if sales go down a few percent per year one day, confidence of the investors will also go down. Smartphones have already reached a peak. There is hardly any room left for innovation. Cameras have reached physical limits. You could only make them even better if you increase the size of the sensor and the lenses. Computing power of smartphones is already high enough for the most demanding tasks you might throw at a smartphone. Any further increase in screen resolution will not be visible to the human eye anyway.
I also see that same problem with notebooks. Most people will never need more power than our notebooks have today. I had my last notebook for nine years until it felt so slow that I had the urge to get a new one. My current notebook will probably last me another eight years at least.
Apple constantly will have to invent the next big thing. Apple Vision Pro certainly isn't it. And will the Apple Car really be so revolutionary that millions will buy it?
I think Apple should change their business model and build skyscrapers instead
I keep seeing these predictions that Vision Pro will magically become thin as sunglasses with loads of battery life, and now contact lenses! It's just not going to happen in anything like that time scale.
All while I'm looking at my iPhone that is larger and heavier than the one that came out 15 years ago and with about a days battery and typing on my MacBook Air which looks virtually identical to the one I had then.
What? Expensive? Did you ever looked for low iq intel laptops? Nvidia graphics card. They are expensive. Also they are not computers but very expensive heaters.
With Tim Cook running operations, which is a major part of being succesful.
Airpods and Watch are not exactly failures. And, you are ignoring services, which is the main story of the article…
Not sure if this is suppose to be sarcasm, but in Q3 2009, Apple sold 2.6 million Mac units. That was worth $3.329 billion in sales. Mac revenue in Q3 2023 was $6.84 billion. (We don't know how many units were sold since Apple stopped reporting unit sales many years ago.)
That's more than 2x revenue from Q3 2009
All premium notebook sales have tanked here in Europe, especially Apple with their rip off prices and hilariously outrageously priced CTO options like RAM, storage etc.
You can still get a good deal for baseline spec M1/M2 based machines on Amazon but who the hell wants a 8GB/256GB baseline PoS in 2023? It's why they are sitting in warehouses gathering dust.
Lol. Sure, he doesn't understand technology. And you, random internet person, know this how???
So Tim doesn't understand technology, but the wearable product he just launched and has been focused on for years is the future??? You make no sense. Tim can't be this soulless person with no vision who needs to be replaced...AND the guy who just gave us the future of Apple that will one day outsell the iPhone.