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.
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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.
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.
I've definitely wondered!Sooooo... maybe that's why devices keep getting thinner? To sort of "compensate", haha.
Have you seen Schiller and Ive lately?
(Of course, I can't talk!)
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.
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.