My concern with this, is a huge portion of what is keeping Apple going, is only the iPhone. Granted IMO it's the best mobile phone in the market, all things being equal, it will soon meet it's end. All things are like that. Even I as an Apple device lover can grasp this.
Question is, what is Apple going to do to diversify it's products?
Nope. Tim's Apple is still milking on Job's heritage. No matter who would be CEO iPhone would still sell.Tim Cook prevails over the Haters...
Time to let go of the incessant frequent references to Jobs.
It's Tim's Apple Now, his numbers speak for themselves.
I'm happy for Mr. Cook
It's not about if ppl will stop using handheld computers, but what brand/price range they use. Android market share is 80% and most of that is in hands of kids/teens. When they grow up they will not change to iOS. Eventually we "elder" iOS users just die offYeah, everyone's thinking, "Look what happened to the flip phone..." - what happened is that the telephone got redefined into a computing-and-communications device. The revolution wasn't "a thin rectangle with a touch screen," it was that computing and the internet went from the desktop and briefcase to everyplace. That's not a flash in the pan, that's a epochal shift. That kind of change doesn't last days or weeks, it last decades or more.
i am not a share holder or anything but isnt it kinda scary how a company relies so much on the success of one product? iPad sales are dropping for example. inagine the smartphone bubble bursting
It's not about if ppl will stop using handheld computers, but what brand/price range they use. Android market share is 80% and most of that is in hands of kids/teens. When they grow up they will not change to iOS. Eventually we "elder" iOS users just die off![]()
When iPhone goes out of fashion, Apple drops back to being small company.
That would be great as it would force Apple to go back to innovate new products.
Well, that's like, your opinion.How do you know?
iOS is a great platform. Just because more Android phones get sold percentage-wise... doesn't mean iPhones are rubbish.
and we get 5400RPM hard drive on iMac.
How do you know?
iOS is a great platform. Just because more Android phones get sold percentage-wise... doesn't mean iPhones are rubbish.
We could say the same thing about computers. Windows PCs have outsold Macs since... well... forever. Yet more people are using Macs today than have ever before. There are obviously new people trying iOS and OSX every day.
And yes... 80 out of 100 smartphones sold today are running some version of Android.
But 40 of those 80 are $50 dumpster phones sold in China and India.
Don't get caught up in the percentages. Apple knows exactly what market they are focusing on.
Apple sells iOS phones and Macintosh computers. Everyone else can peddle Android phones and Windows computers.
Huh? According to Google's own financials, advertising is still 90% of revenues. How is that being "much more diversified than Apple"?Google's cloud business is growing and is competing with AWS. Google is much more diversified than Apple.
We can't predict whether or when the iPhone-style smart phone will be redefined - how long did it take the rotary dial telephone to be redefined? (Touch-tone didn't redefine, it took cordless phones to really end things.) But the market will no doubt treat today as the last good day for Apple... year after year after year. It's about the only consistently successful company I can think of that is treated with this kind of pessimism. Any other company, and we'd be worried about "irrational exuberance" and P/E ratios double and triple of what we see here.
So to summarize, the real star is iOS not iPhone.There will always be a certain niche for Apple products primarily because Apple offers something different than all the other vendors.
Windows PCs have traditionally been cheaper than Macs... yet Macs are still a good business for Apple to be in.
It doesn't matter if HP launches some new Pavilion laptop for $299... or any of the other dozen PC vendors. Mac users want MacOS and Apple is the only company who deliver it.
PCs are cheaper and are sold in more volume... but Apple still sells more than enough Macs.
Same for smartphones. You can buy a cheap yet good Android phone from 1,000 different vendors. But if you want iOS on your phone... it's only made by Apple.
Thus... Android phones sell in more volume... but the iPhone is (obviously) still a good business to be in.
To your point... I think those good $200 Android phones will cause more damage to the $600 Android phones.... not iPhones.
In fact... we're kinda seeing that already with Samsung's falling sales. Like I said... there are 1,000 vendors selling a product called "Android Phone" so the competition is fierce and prices are dropping rapidly.
Yet Apple is the only company selling iPhones so they basically have their own market.
Whole market is in a decline, sometimes even record profits can't make your stock jump.Volkswagen who are being sued and are going to shell out billions in fines, have their share prices jump up 4% !!
Apple which has announced record profits, have their share value decline !!
So how does this work?
Exactly this. Apple's YOY revenue growth of over $50B was greater than the FULL YEAR revenue of 90% of the Fortune 500. In FY 2015 Apple's PROFIT of $53B was equal to Google's REVENUE for the first 9 months of this year. They have over $200B in cash. Yet Wall Street treats Apple like it's one slower growth quarter away from extinction. As long as that sentiment continues to exist the stock will do nothing.
Wow loads of money - and they won't even put a HDMI cable in the box![]()
So funny watching the haters hate on the these results. Keep it going lads, always gives me a chuckle
So, the watch is in the other category I assume. If so, take phone sales or iPad sales and compare the numbers to get a better estimate of watch sales. It wont give you the real number because other items (accessories maybe) are in the other category but it will give you a top number.
Btw, for everyone fretting over Apple being all about iPhone, iPhone as a proportion of revenue has shrunk for three successive quarters, and is substantially down from last year.