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Apple will not be on top forever. I think it's ignorant to think otherwise. Nothing like that lasts forever. And so many people are so aggravated with Apple. I think that's why so many people think it will soon. Plus Steve is gone. I know he's been gone a while, but still…he's gone.

Admit it. It's super fanboy to say "and here come the Apple-is-doomed comments." It may actually happen sooner or later.

Proceed with bashing me for speaking.

Well you are going to die someday (me too) that doesn't mean you should sit around thinking about how one day you will be worm food. You act like Apple has a terminal disease and we've already called in the hospice nurses.
 
Well you are going to die someday (me too) that doesn't mean you should sit around thinking about how one day you will be worm food. You act like Apple has a terminal disease and we've already called in the hospice nurses.
Honestly I don't care that much either way what happens. I was just referring to to numerous posts I saw.
 
Keep digging Apple, it's going to be a rugged road this selling season.

No, it will be record-breaking.

Brace Yourself!

The record breaking days _will be ending_

It's Impossible, (yes I said impossible) to keep a streak alive forever.

The day that Happens, the Life will be sucked out of Apple.

Reaching for their life saving bag of cash they'll make a recovery, yet suffer a concussion so severe they'll never be the same again.

Don't believe it?
You have no choice but to wait and witness it.

Huh? Your first entry about it being rugged for Apple was for "this selling season."

And my response was, no, it will be record-breaking.

But then not being able to accept that, you stir up a big steaming bowl of FUD about what may happen way off in the future, i.e. forever?

Why the need to obfuscate? How about sticking to and defending your assertion about "this selling season" will end up being a rugged road for Apple.
 
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I use "Hey Siri" all the time while I am driving, of course i have the 6+ so it has to be plugged in for it to work which is probably why it's the only time I use this feature.
 
Except you forget that no company can grow forever.

I know this... the fine folks at Apple know this... but I'm not sure Wall Street know this.

I don't understand Wall Street... I just see Apple as a company who can make billions of dollars a quarter.

And then there are other companies who make ZERO dollars a quarter... but everyone is worried about Apple?

You forget.. If you make $1 profit, getting $2 gets you a 100% growth!!! Wow! Wall Street is impressed....
If you make $50B in profits, and get to $52B... Well, Wall Street calls you a slacker and punishes you.

Of course, if you scarf 95% of all profits... Like Apple...Well, there is only a way to grow, the whole market grows.
You're working hard for everyone else... Who truly ARE slackers and piggybacking on your back.

There is no way on earth that Amazon can EVER justify its current valuation.
Profit margins in retail are low, and if Amazon increases it, people will go elsewhere.
There is nothing special about Amazon.

Their new cloud thing; profits are low except in very specialized cases.
That boosts their revenue but not their profit... Again.

Apple works hard to keep margins up so everywhere they go, they make money.
To do that takes a lot of strategic foresight and thinking very long term.

It's probable that smart phone market will saturate, or smart phones will be good enough that people will keep them longer.... But, that will be a problem for everyone in the market, not just Apple. Others with no profit margin will be all killed when this happens and only Apple and a few others will survive.
 
Comparisons to Android and the tired old, "Well Android had this feature X amount of years ago..." keeps popping up. Yeah Android had this feature a year or two ago already, but this is for iPHONE and maybe it's just informing iPhone users and possibly potential iPhone users about that ability without having to be plugged in. Maybe those potential iPhone users are current Android users and the ad is showing them that iPhone also has this feature. Big whup that Android had that feature before iPhone, the ad isn't saying that Apple created it nor is it saying they are the only ones with this feature. It's an ad like any other company would make to tout what it's product can do i.e. car companies showing off features of their cars.

The funny thing is Android allowed it (but maybe shouldn't)... But people forgot it was on all the time and it killed their battery life.. As expected (because on most phones it used the main CPU)

A few recent high end Android phones (within 12-18 months) have the equivalent to the Iphone 6s always on M9 chip. Those phones do in fact have the exact same function as this phone. But, that's recent, not something that happened many years ago.

But, earlier Androids did not. It's just that Android is so lax about user experience they allow things that really they shouldn't.
 
So wait, Apple is introducing something that Android has had for years... Apple had the best smartphones for the first few years, but now they are just playing catchup to Android. Funny thing is, Apple people will think that this is an Apple original feature and think it's the greatest thing on the planet. I'll just stick to my way superior S6 Edge.
 
So wait, Apple is introducing something that Android has had for years... Apple had the best smartphones for the first few years, but now they are just playing catchup to Android. Funny thing is, Apple people will think that this is an Apple original feature and think it's the greatest thing on the planet. I'll just stick to my way superior S6 Edge.
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