[doublepost=1557447568][/doublepost]We were never supposed to buy a new $800 phone every year. Yearly smartphones were a passing fad. They can't sustain that business model nor can most of us afford to upgrade to the latest and greatest every tear.
You know as well as everybody, Tim won’t be fired as much as it may be said by arm chair ceos.
Apple WANTS to sell less phones? Wow.
Yes. What’s BS is lack of understanding of apple’s future direction and push into services.
Apple doesnt want to sell less iPhones....that isn't and was never the plan. Push into service and still maintain or increase iPhone sales is the goal. Not sell less iPhones and get more people on Apple news.
And different Taptic engine, aluminium instead of stainless steel, less RAM, only IP67, only 2x2 MIMO. There are more differences I can't remember on the top of my head. Basically a totally different phone which happen to use the same CPU.
How do you know what the plan is? It’s not a matter of what apple WANTS to do. It’s the matter of how they are running the business, what targets and projections they set for themselves. We are not privy to those conversations.
Okay. I guess that's why they had been marketing the XR so much. Because they want to sell less. Sound logic.
One does not follow the other. Saying a company wants to sell less is a red-herring. Of course, companies will market their products and I'm betting Apple knows approximately what it's targets are and how much they expect to sell. Talk about sound logic.
Yeah, honestly at this point, the only “gripes”
Despite the doom and gloom stories I think Apple still did incredibly well and I think they will continue to do well going forward. However I think Samsung's operating profit being down 60 % has a lot more to do with them selling less components due to the decline in smartphone sales globally. They are one of the biggest suppliers of components so when when other manufacturers sell less phones it's going to hit Samsung hard. They sold less phones but the majority of the shortfall in their profit is due to them loosing component sales.
I don't think they want to sell less. In an ideal world they would sell more. However as you've pointed out Apple realised some time ago that they couldn't sustain year over year increases in iPhone sales. So they came up with other strategies to generate profit, i.e. services and making cheaper phones (Xr), selling high priced phones (x, xs). I think they have a good strategy going forward. They seem to be the only big tech company besides Google that seem to have realised that blindly throwing all your might behind hardware in a declining market is futile. Apple seem to be the only ones that have a plan B.
For all intents and purposes, those difference you pointed out are far less tangible day to day. The extra speed of the modem means nothing since most people can’t access faster the 450MB speed of the XR modem with any consistency, most people probably don’t notice the aluminum vs SS, and IP67 vs IP68 doesn’t mean much at all since Apple won’t cover water damage anyway. The extra RAM is necessary to both push extra pixels of the OLED display and the dual lens camera, so that’s essentially a wash. The iPhone X and XR may be a more direct comparison to the quoted comment, but regardless, you get 95% of the XS experience for 75% of the price with the XR. Hard to beat that and the sales figures show that.
