Maybe - but their ecosystem wasn't where it is now many years ago. Apple's history has been based on coming to market areas late but doing it better and more effectively. Apple has a growing cash horde that is heading towards $300 billion - they can buy content easily or acquire a content company (Disney has been rumored). Things aren't too stacked against them.
This is just an excuse that doesn't prove me wrong.
Apple will buy Disney now? LoL be serious.
If the iPhone was the only thing that Apple relied upon - yeah that might the case.
Not the only thing but it is the most important one.
But Apple's phone market share has always fluctuated up and down. Their investment in services and boosting their software muscle offers other revenue streams to mitigate this fluctuation.
I'm more interested in unit sales. That's more relevant, that's were Apple is starting to lose.
The iPhone is not going anywhere. The services provided "by others". Who is providing them? Google? They are cutting products and services. Their primary business is advertising and information harvesting. Aside from the Android phone and the applications delivered for free by Google - what do they offer?
I never said the iphone is going somewhere.
And yes services provided by other companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, Disney etc. etc.
I don't know whats your deal with Google but you have quite an obtuse view of their product portfolio. Google has a vide range of services that are more popular than anything Apple offers, things like Gmail, Youtube, Maps, Search, Drive. So things that are not going away anytime soon. Google's own the most popular browser in the world, the most popular map system, the most popular video streaming service, the most email client, the most popular search client etc.
Apple has media streaming for which they are building a value proposition people will pay for.
They haven't launched the service yet like others did.
They have Apple Music which now competes with Spotify for paid music services. Google or android phone providers don't have that.
Yes Google does have that. Check it for yourself. And isn't Spotify on Android as well?
Apple is very successful with Apple Pay - which earns them money.
Google is also successful with their payment system.
Even Wechat is successful with it's payment system.
So we have to look at the phone makers that compete providing low margin phones without a coherent ecosystem backing them up. It seems Apple has the superior value proposition for customers and a more coherent ecosystem.
Yeah and things here are not what they seem.
I can access Apple services through my phone, my watch, my AppleTV, my iPad and my Mac. There is more than one vector to access Apples services than just the phone. The Android world is shrinking - they will have no tablets, their wearables are losing to Apple, Google's ChromeCast is now falling behind Roku because Google has not focused on it.
You can do the same on the Android side.
And the Android world is not shrinking at all.
Yet you only bring up phones and discussion about a 7nm process as that will change the revenue dynamic between the Android and Apple ecosystems.
Well you meddled in my discussion so don't try to dictate what I should and shouldn't say.
You don't even understand what I meant when I mentioned mid-range 7nm phones.
I said nothing about changing the revenue dynamic between the Android and Apple ecosystems. That's something you just made up.
You base your argument on the observation or prediction that the Android handset maker's mid-range phones will be bettie in the future than they are now. The same could be said of the iPhone. So what will materially change in the current dynamic? Nothing.
bettie? You mean better?
I don't base that on assumptions or observation but on experience.
Mid-range and low-end Android phones are objectively getting better and better each year.
Right now - based on information now - Apple's investment in their ecosystem has positioned Apple to deliver value through multiple revenue streams that go beyond just the phone. Android handset makers live and die by selling low-to-midrange phones relying on the free services provided by Google.
Hence they are dependent on the decision and investments made by Google which recently has shown a penchant to abandon products and services on a whim. The only company I see in the Android world that could deliver on the same value proposition as Apple is Samsung. They are investing in software and back-end services that integrate with their Android based products. They also have the cash to pull it off. But that still remains to be seen.
This has nothing to do with what I wrote.
If you are waiting for the smartphone manufactures that provide good quality and value hardware and which are constantly gaining new costumers to fail and disappear you can continue to wait until you are tired of waiting.
Sorry - objective analysis doesn't support your opinion.
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Chromecast and Roku are different tech and don’t really share the same experiences. Falling behind in what way? Just about every tv except for TCL includes a chromecast.
AndroidOS isn’t going into the abyss anytime soon. If Android OS dies, maybe Microsoft or another company can course correct again. There will always be a need for low and mid range phones at a macro level.
Think globally and not just U.S.
Bingo.
I stay by what I said. You haven't showed that I'm wrong.
