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Dang.... 48 million iPhones... in the quarter before a new iPhone launched.

Any guesses on how many will be reported in January?

Last January it was 74.5 million iPhones. I'm predicting another monster Holiday season.
 
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Apple can't get any traction outside the phone. There really isn't a halo affect represented in that graph. Phones, phones and more phones. Still, as a company, I'd take it all day long!
 
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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.
 
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?

I know that it's a common concern... but even Apple's other businesses are billion dollar businesses.

If the iPhone suddenly disappeared... they'd still be doing better than most other companies in the same industries.
 
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Meanwhile in Tim Cook's Office. . . .
 
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?

It's already diversifying, you just aren't paying attention.

Apple Pay

Apple Music

Apple TV

Apple Car
 
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I know that it's a common concern... but even Apple's other businesses are billion dollar businesses.

If the iPhone suddenly disappeared... they'd still be doing better than most other companies in the same industries.
In my opinion, the iPhone will only go away, when it gets replaced by a new product (category). The iPod didn't go away, because people didn't like it anymore. It went away, because it got replaced by the iPhone.
 
Apple can't get any traction outside the phone. There really isn't a halo affect represented in that graph. Phones, phones and more phones. Still, as a company, I'd take it all day long!
To be fair, any one of those product categories other than the iPhone would be a massive hit for any other company. It is just that in comparison, the iphone is so unbelievably successful, even rip roaring successes in other products pales.
 
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?

Maybe they'll release a smartwatch or something!
 
Apple better hope the iPhone sales don't start to decline! Ouch...

iPhone sales will stop growing someday. It's a certainty. You cannot have infinite growth forever.

The good news is... Apple will be selling over 200 million iPhones a year at that point... and making a pretty penny on each one.

And that'll be while other companies don't sell a lot of phones and barely make any money on each one (or lose money on each one)

I think any company could be around for the rest of our lives if they "only" sold 200 million profitable smartphones a year.
 
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?
They don't need to diversify anything they just need to do what they do better:
1- Release more appealing Macs -not crippled disposable
2- Make a better iPad/Mac hybrid to eliminate the surface
3-fix their cloud services to be actually reliable and trusted
4- proliferate games in the new Apple TV to be really serious contender in the console market
5-release a TV/movies all you can eat on demand subscription service that put Amazon and Netflix in serious competition
6-Grow HomeKit to be the real solution for home automation and security market leader
7-Be more aggressive in the education market and stablish better partnerships with the different US states to really help kids learn to code
8-invest some of that cash into 3D printing tech solutions
 
iPhone sales will stop growing someday. It's a certainty. You cannot have infinite growth forever.

The good news is... Apple will be selling over 200 million iPhones a year at that point... and making a pretty penny on each one.

And that'll be while other companies don't sell a lot of phones and barely make any money on each one (or lose money on each one)

I think any company could be around for the rest of our lives if they "only" sold 200 million profitable smartphones a year.

The bigger impact will be if the US dollar strengthens. That will turn most high tier smartphones into luxury items.
 
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