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Apple's 'Doom and Gloom' Sentiment Reaches 'Extreme Levels,' but iPhone Sales Should Hit Bottom This Quarter
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And if they don't show it Monday, or in September, but bring it big time starting in 2017, will that be too late to stop Apple's impending doom?
Apple is still making lots of money and they have enough ca$h to buy some nations or corporations if they wanted. They are not going out of business anytime soon. Having said that Apple has saturated it primary markets and is currently having a tough time trying to open the secondary markets (primarily China and India). Given that the phone accounts for 60% of their revenue, expanding their other lines like Beats and Computers and TV seems appropriate (but they are not upgrading there fast enough). On the Services side they are also in transition and that has not gone so well up til now (iCloud and Apple Music being the prime candidates here). If Apple can manage a transition to the additional revenue stream while continuing to open up secondary markets, they will be fine even if they have a few slower years (they have the cash to support them).
The big concern is can they manage the transition and can they create compelling products beyond the phone. I think they can and the next year will be critical in this transition. At next year's WWDC we should be able to look back and either say we are really going down or we are headed in the right direction. To say we are going down now is too early IMO.
The big concern is can they manage the transition and can they create compelling products beyond the phone. I think they can and the next year will be critical in this transition. At next year's WWDC we should be able to look back and either say we are really going down or we are headed in the right direction. To say we are going down now is too early IMO.
Maybe I do take it way too seriously, I think the design of these devices is important though.
For some unknown reasons I'm almost fanatical about it, but I agree some people just don't care about these things. Each to their own. We live in a world full of color.
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Why are you making fun of a concern? I think that no one is saying that Apple is doomed. We all know that they can stop working and with all of the cash in the bank they can probably survive ten more years.
It's not a matter of being doomed, it's a matter of observing a healthy company, a revolutionary company going on the wrong (and maybe boring) path in a similar way of the Ballmer era Microsoft.
"It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing."
Market saturation and good enough. For what most people do, they honestly don't need the latest.
Eh, for gadget nerds maybe. Most people have no idea that WWDC exists. They just like their phone or they don't.
Bottom? Just for selling a few millions less? I think its mostly overdramatazing apple problems, like people are just waiting for them to fall really bad. It's normal, you can't always break sale records.
To be honest, iPhones are still selling amazing, and iPhone 6 is an amazing Phone, only we have come to the point, as same as we did with iPad, where people want need a new phone very year. And it also doesn't help that those phones are getting more expensive, i paid for mine iphone 6S+ 64GB 950 Euros, and will sure not be buying another one in 1-2 years.
To be honest, iPhones are still selling amazing, and iPhone 6 is an amazing Phone, only we have come to the point, as same as we did with iPad, where people want need a new phone very year. And it also doesn't help that those phones are getting more expensive, i paid for mine iphone 6S+ 64GB 950 Euros, and will sure not be buying another one in 1-2 years.
I think it's a matter of a company having a temporary lull after hitting all-time highs. A marketplace that is changing. What Apple has to do is act deliberately. The results of whatever they do may not be felt in sales numbers for years. The results of decisions they make today may not show up in dog and pony shows this year. It seems silly to say what Apple needs to show us next week or later this summer. Those decisions were made in the past.
Not entirely true. The iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4 were all announced at WWDC.
While reading comments about judging girls by their phones and shoes I forgot what I had to say...
No, the real make-it-or-break-it moment for Apple will be in June or September 2017 when the true next generation iPhone is released.
So that means one hasn't been announced at WWDC since 4s, 5, 5s, 5c, 6, 6s, or SE.. I'm seeing a pattern here.
"iPhone Sales Should Hit Bottom This Quarter"
Nick Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream finally pays attention to iPhone sales? Weirdly, every time he uses an old, round Apple mouse from 1998, he changes into a donkey...
(it's a Puck joke everybody!)
More seriously, I do think Apple needs to think up some new ideas for its iPhones, but I'm not very enamoured by most rumours as to what those are likely to be so far. I am still loving my iPhone SE and I don't imagine I will be moved to think about replacing it for some time to come.
Nick Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream finally pays attention to iPhone sales? Weirdly, every time he uses an old, round Apple mouse from 1998, he changes into a donkey...
(it's a Puck joke everybody!)
More seriously, I do think Apple needs to think up some new ideas for its iPhones, but I'm not very enamoured by most rumours as to what those are likely to be so far. I am still loving my iPhone SE and I don't imagine I will be moved to think about replacing it for some time to come.
It would be a "told ya" moment...God knows what the reaction would be on here if they ever had a quarter when they made a loss.
When I was a kid, my grandfather had old popular mechanics magazines showing how we were on track to have a population working in space stations and in floating cities at sea, and at the bottom of the ocean, and we'd all work less and our androids would do more of the labor, because investments in technology of the 1950s & 1960s meant that everyone would live better quality lives of leisure, education, and stress less and work less.
Instead the opposite has happened, and for a while we blamed government for cancelling energy research, the space program, and scientific funding, leaving our hope in the hands of those rare companies in private industry that can afford to be bold and made the big leaps forward. Apple was a promising one, and the iPhone and its knockoffs were a big leap forward.
Now that great leaps forward are slowing to a crawl in industry, people have no one but themselves to turn to for the big changes in culture, and they know they can't build any of these enormously costly endeavors themselves, so theyre holding Apple up to expectations and refusing to let go.
I think thats what I'm doing, anyway.
Instead the opposite has happened, and for a while we blamed government for cancelling energy research, the space program, and scientific funding, leaving our hope in the hands of those rare companies in private industry that can afford to be bold and made the big leaps forward. Apple was a promising one, and the iPhone and its knockoffs were a big leap forward.
Now that great leaps forward are slowing to a crawl in industry, people have no one but themselves to turn to for the big changes in culture, and they know they can't build any of these enormously costly endeavors themselves, so theyre holding Apple up to expectations and refusing to let go.
I think thats what I'm doing, anyway.
Saw this girl the other day that was gorgeous. We started flirting and everything was going great. Then she pulled out her Galaxy S7 and I just walked off and laughed to myself. Man did I show her!!
Pshhhh.
One time, I was making love to this stunning Brazilian model. Just before little Vesuvius erupts, her phone rings downstairs. A sense of dread unfolds as I recognize the Windows Phone default ringtone. Immediately grabbed keys and iPhone and jumped out the window.
Forgot my pants.
Apple made that mistake in the past. In the 90s. Then Steve Jobs came back and streamlined their product lines to only a few great products instead of a dozen mediocre ones. Now it's happening again.
$185 and I'll crap my pants. I doubt we'll see that until the Apple Watch and Apple TV solidify, iPad sales rebound and the Apple Car does well. That's in addition to the iPhone returning to it's former glory. That's just a bit too much money. I could see $140-150 within a few years if they do just about everything right. I'm worried about the rumored three year design cycle sinking them this autumn down to the $80-85 range if it pans out. I'm likely going to exit my position sometime later this summer, especially if that keeps looking increasingly likely. Then buy back some super cheap.
It would be pretty spectacular if the rumors about the new three year design cycle were false—just a ploy to throw us off and lower expectations so that the new model completely blows us away. But I'm really doubting whether Apple can pull off the redesign they're longing for in this year. It seems rather ambitious with the all glass, edge-to-edge design with no home button, integrated into the display Touch ID and completely waterproof, better cameras, thinner and everything else. Who knows though—I'd love to be surprised! I'm just not going to hold my breath.
It would be pretty spectacular if the rumors about the new three year design cycle were false—just a ploy to throw us off and lower expectations so that the new model completely blows us away. But I'm really doubting whether Apple can pull off the redesign they're longing for in this year. It seems rather ambitious with the all glass, edge-to-edge design with no home button, integrated into the display Touch ID and completely waterproof, better cameras, thinner and everything else. Who knows though—I'd love to be surprised! I'm just not going to hold my breath.
Can confirm, mother in law has a Samsung, is trash. Thus, all Samsung owners must be trash. /s