And how will it significantly change people’s lives, i.e. be a revolution? They can browse the internet and send texts on a bigger screen? My goodness the world as we know it will be no more. /s
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Apple Shipped an Estimated 36.4 Million iPhones Worldwide in Q1 2019, a 30% Year-Over-Year Decline
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And how will it significantly change people’s lives, i.e. be a revolution? They can browse the internet and send texts on a bigger screen? My goodness the world as we know it will be no more. /s
Apple can never be "doomed". Apple can fail every single quarter for the rest of our lives and still not burn through their enormous amounts of cash.
What Apple will continue to do is give us the bare minimum for the absolute maximum.
I cant wait for the next iphone to come out with power share and NOT work for Apple watch (because thats not compatible). But guess what it WILL work with? Galaxy Buds.
This is the Apple of today, an utterly garbage, visionless, money grab.
It’s a tablet you can carry in your pocket. I need to say no more than that. If you can’t comprehend what a game changer folding smartphones will be, then that’s on your shoulders. It’s pretty obvious to begin with. I’m done trying to explain the obvious to you. Cheers.
So?
It's a crappy smartphone that looks even worse than the iPhone SE when closed (not to mention being twice as thick), and when unfolded, it's a small android tablet (and we know how bad the android tablet ecosystem is).
The whole selling point is a tablet which you can then fold to keep in your pocket, and that to me is the flaw of the entire premise. I don't see how having to unfold and fold your tablet every time you want to use it can be considered a great user experience at all. It might seem novel at first, but I am willing to bet that this will get annoying very quickly.
That HUGE decline is in line with Tim Cook/Apple's strategy to go from a Two Year design cycle (iPhone 3G/3Gs, 4/4S, 5/5S...) to a three or even four year cycle (iPhone 6, 6S, 7, 8 / iPhone X, XS/R, this year's model).
Something has to give if you stop updating/innovating. The same can be said about Macs which seem to be on a five year cycle
Something has to give if you stop updating/innovating. The same can be said about Macs which seem to be on a five year cycle
You haven’t explained anything, only repeated generalities about how a foldable screen will be revolutionary because it’s a tablet in your pocket, which of course ignores that a) the iPhone Xs Max basically already is a small tablet in your pocket, and b) it doesn’t change people’s lives because it doesn’t allow them to do anything they can’t already do on their smartphones. It’s so obvious though that you can’t even articulate what the big deal about it would be...
It’s hard to get excited over either spending $1200 on a phone or making payments that are more than my internet bill monthly on a phone. I may just keep my iPhone until it’s unusable
Because they are making up for the lost revenue in other areas. Apple becoming less reliant on their #1 product is a great thing. Services went from 13% or so last quarter to 20% of total revenue this quarter at a higher margin. Financially that’s a great thing.
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You can’t make nimble startup decisions when you’re the 2nd largest company (by market cap) in the US who has over a billion devices currently in use.
maybe some people do not spend $1500.00 on a cell phone when they just bought a $1000.00 cell phone last year
You’re right. Instead, they pay $45/month and get the new phone every year. You can’t get out of the program until paying off the phone or defaulting on a loan.
Of course this is going to increase. The question is what/where is the ceiling here. Everyone is playing off the rhetoric that Apple has an all time high driven by services. You're right, it's a great thing. However, I am very interested to see in the next few years how they pivot their widespread non-Apple specific services. Growth is easy your first few years. It's what happens after that will depict the next story.
I think I’m done upgrading every single year. The pizazz of new features that aren’t groundbreaking and enhance the phone much more than previous years is wearing off.
$1500 on the Xs Max this year. Phone sure is nice, but come on. $1500 nice? Might as well let the AppleCare+ that I bought for it run its course and use the phone til its death.
$1500 on the Xs Max this year. Phone sure is nice, but come on. $1500 nice? Might as well let the AppleCare+ that I bought for it run its course and use the phone til its death.
If you want to really impress her, don't bring out your phone at all.
a'ight but if u don't know my hood girls Altis u need to be ballin. No bank no bang u know what i mean?
This comment thread is literally discussing Apple’s quarterly earnings report
Or you can take advantage of the high resell value of Apple products, sell for 70% and get yourself something reeaallll nice
So they are ‘estimated’ to have shipped 30% fewer iPhones, the one device that STILL as proven in the earnings call, makes the majority of the companies turnover, yet it made more profit.....
Don’t know about you lot, but to me that stinks of overpricing and profiteering of one device!
However Macs are only just making more money then the iPad range... that’s interesting, 8% VS 11%.
Don’t know about you lot, but to me that stinks of overpricing and profiteering of one device!
However Macs are only just making more money then the iPad range... that’s interesting, 8% VS 11%.
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I like how some are saying the decline from last year is because of the price... Wait the prices were the same last year LOL
What I found very interesting here is that Cook is claiming that revenue from services has skyrocketed and is essentially raking in so much money that all losses from the iPhone’s slow demise are compensated.
My question would be: which services? Apple Music? Or the 2$ iCloud upgrades? All the new stuff they’ve announced this year hasn’t even hit the market. Something is rotten in the State of Denmark.
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Who are they going to sell their services to when nobody has Apple devices anymore?
Those iCloud upgrades add up and they're not all $2. Also Apple Music and they get a percentage from the App Store. Apple News is out but not sure if this is included since it's new.
I copied and pasted this from a news article
Apple's services segment, which also includes Apple Music, Apple Pay and the iCloud, posted revenue of $11.45 billion. Analysts expected services revenue of $11.37 billion. Revenue from iPhone sales was $31 billion, roughly in line with expectations but a decline of 17 percent year-over-year. Sales of iPads and wearables devices such as the Apple Watch increased.
“Our March quarter results show the continued strength of our installed base of over 1.4 billion active devices, as we set an all-time record for Services, and the strong momentum of our Wearables, Home and Accessories category, which set a new March quarter record,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.
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What are you talking about... Please share your source for this because to my knowledge iPads have been outselling Macs for almost a decade.