The entire component industry does not rise and fall with the sales of iPhones, just suppliers for the iPhone because Apple makes up 99% of their revenue.
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Apple's Suppliers Projecting Weak Demand for iPhone 7 Due to 'Lack of Innovation'
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The entire component industry does not rise and fall with the sales of iPhones, just suppliers for the iPhone because Apple makes up 99% of their revenue.
lol. Putting out a carbon copy of the 6/6s isn't a risk? They moved the antenna bands!
I just don't see what Apple can do year after year to increase the number of people who want an iPhone every year. They might have made the 6S too good because honestly I'm very satisfied with this one and haven't really been following the iPhone 7 rumors as a result. No matter what they put out I think I'm going to just stay put.
They addressed the last major complaint of bigger screens with the 6/6 Plus and with those massive sales I figured they wouldn't quite be able to increase them again the following year.
They addressed the last major complaint of bigger screens with the 6/6 Plus and with those massive sales I figured they wouldn't quite be able to increase them again the following year.
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Apple has a masterful command of marketing and sales, plenty of cash and all the time in the world. No one is in a stronger position than Apple.
The thing is that there's no "Apple" company that they're losing customers to. For all the whining I see on this site I've yet to see anything innovative from the competitors either. Speaking strictly of smartphones, the industry seems to have become mature and companies are just tweaking their devices instead of making radical changes. Not to mention none of Apple's competitors have been able to actually challenge their dominance of the industry's profits. Other than Samsung, the rest barely break even, if that.
Reading some of these comments you'd almost think Apple is reporting losses or something.
Hey Apple, I love you, but I'm using a very nice Galaxy S7 edge now. I'll look in on you when you match those specs.
Maybe? This is something people have been doing for awhile now. I seem to know two camps here though: those who want the latest/greatest, then the slightly older generation who wouldn't give a rip about the newest technology/features (i.e. My mom).
Apple is building a car. This is pretty much the riskiest thing Apple has ever done. So I don't think we have to worry about Apple taking risks, they are doing that.
But Apple can't take risks with the iPhone. If the "real" 7 wasn't ready and they have to just do a second year of spec upgrades, then so be it. It can still be the biggest selling smartphone just on the basis of people buying as their 4, 5 and 6 iphones break and as Android users switch or have their own android phones break. The iPhone user base is so big now it doesn't even need the year to year upgrade folks. But it needs to have a new quality phone come out at least once a year and it can't have a phone that needs to get recalled or has some sort of fatal flaw.
I think Apple's in a position where it's not just about outperforming other companies or things like that, but convincing existing customers to upgrade at the same or faster pace than before. I've noticed a lot less attention paid among regular joes to which iPhone people have, unlike 5 years ago where it really felt like you were missing out not to be as close to the newest model as humanly possible. This can be taken as a compliment that the devices aren't becoming obsolete, but from a business perspective they want to put that carrot out there to get people upgrading.
Not every year, every two years. But the real problem is that other handset manufacturers in fact do more than Apple does. Call it innovation, call it evolution or whatever you want. Apple is plain and simple looking like they don't even care. They seem arrogant. They think they can make whatever they want and people will throw money at them. Why is there a 16 Gig base model for gods sake? Why do I just have 5 Gigs of iCloud storage for my MacBook, my iPad and my iPhone? What happened with the Mac Pro? Why is the iPad Air 3 200 bucks more? Why did Apple make an overprised Netbook in pink? Because Tim and Jony and the people around them think it's still 2011 and they can get away with those things. They live in a bubble and nobody dares to tell them the truth.
haha, today has turned into THE DOOM OF APPLE RUMOURS day!!
1ST: Yet more confirmation this years iPhone will be hardly any different to last years, and the year before that. And this coming from the suppliers predicting no innovation, expecting low sales.
2ND: The rumour the 2017 iPhone will be so fantastically different NO ONE should buy an iPhone until that model is out!
3RD: Apple is going to ditch selling music on it's iTunes store, you'll have to stream it only, and in ONLY 2 years time!
Who knows? Maybe Tim Cook will walk on stage and copy what Samuel L Jackson's character 'Valentine' in Kingsman: The Secret Service said and announce in 2017 with this new iPhone you get, free calls, free text, free internet, forever!
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No, because Android sales are up by over 6% in all major markets in the last quarter, Apples loss is fast becoming there gain. So no the 'whole industry' is not lower in sales.
http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/Android-Share-Growth-is-Highest-in-EU5-in-Over-Two-Years
1ST: Yet more confirmation this years iPhone will be hardly any different to last years, and the year before that. And this coming from the suppliers predicting no innovation, expecting low sales.
2ND: The rumour the 2017 iPhone will be so fantastically different NO ONE should buy an iPhone until that model is out!
3RD: Apple is going to ditch selling music on it's iTunes store, you'll have to stream it only, and in ONLY 2 years time!
Who knows? Maybe Tim Cook will walk on stage and copy what Samuel L Jackson's character 'Valentine' in Kingsman: The Secret Service said and announce in 2017 with this new iPhone you get, free calls, free text, free internet, forever!
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No, because Android sales are up by over 6% in all major markets in the last quarter, Apples loss is fast becoming there gain. So no the 'whole industry' is not lower in sales.
http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/Android-Share-Growth-is-Highest-in-EU5-in-Over-Two-Years
The annual emptying of the hogwash tank has started...
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I think you'll find that it works INFINITELY better than a charm; charms don't work, iPhones DO.
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I think you'll find that it works INFINITELY better than a charm; charms don't work, iPhones DO.
Well that's just a grand that's staying in my pocket for at least another year. Plus I'll have the iPhone with the separate 3.5mm headphone jack feature.
But the article is discussing a projected decline in chip sales for the second half of 2016, ie chips that will be going into production soon for the iPhone 7.
- This is preposterous. Ride; rode; have ridden. Past participles seriously are not that difficult, MacRumors.
i have my own prediction ...
Apple keeps up with the cosmic changes. like the all flat surface for an iPhone 7, and not very many major improvements, just to hang on for people to still buy...
Users would buy the next iPhone, but when they see other companies follow suit with their own design as good as Apple, they switch..... Then the next time we get an Apple iphone again because "no other company at that time does it", and the cycle keeps going.
Apple keeps up with the cosmic changes. like the all flat surface for an iPhone 7, and not very many major improvements, just to hang on for people to still buy...
Users would buy the next iPhone, but when they see other companies follow suit with their own design as good as Apple, they switch..... Then the next time we get an Apple iphone again because "no other company at that time does it", and the cycle keeps going.