Just FYI, iPhone is a Chinese product and it's price will go up in US if Trump raises tariffs on Chinese electronics.
Not really.Apple could do with moving down further. They need to get hungry again.
What matters are millions and perhaps billions of people who cannot afford iPhones. iPhones are a commodity in the US, but not in China and India.Looks like Huawei, Xiaomi and OPPO will be top three in few years.
And Samsung/Apple should share next spots respectively!
Regardless Apple will still lead the profits by quite a margin. Quantity doesn't matter!
Or Apple could absorb the cost and drop their margins a bit. They are one of the few manufacturers in the world that have margins as high as they do. However I would rather they reinvest it in the company instead of lining their own pockets...
I agree with most of what you said, but Samsung's competition in the US is absolutely Apple and I imagine it is by a wide margin. Who do they really compete with in the US? The Pixel, which if memory serves, is not sold in carrier stores? OnePlus? HTC? Motorola? LG?Not really.
Does BMW try to compete with Toyota?
A company has to have a clear vision what segment of the market they want to target.
The one who should worry is Samsung. Samsung thinks they’re competing with Apple, while in reality the ones eating their market share are the Chinese OEMs. Yet Samsung continues wasting money mocking Apple.
In the next few years, we will see the likes of Huawei and Xiaomi taking the crown from Samsung, while Apple is comfortable on the side watching the Android OEMs killing each other.
China was a huge market for Apple for whatever time it was. But it can no more compete with local brands in China.What matters are millions and perhaps billions of people who cannot afford iPhones. iPhones are a commodity in the US, but not in China and India.
Thats why they are turning to "Services" section for profits.It does, just only when Apple needs to boast. If they don't have the numbers they need, like anyone else does, they manipulate the message to make the numbers sing.
So true....so very true.Apple could do with moving down further. They need to get hungry again.
And this is exactly my point. None of the now growing number of brands who've incorporate the notch into their design have Apple's level of tech for 3D mapping facial ID, and yet they've used the notch design because Apple did it first. Not saying Apple is always the first with design or tech, but they can claim first for real facial ID and first for a notch design, whether you like the design or not.Nah, Huawei just copied it for the resemblance to iPhone. Their notch doesn't contain the same tech or the same purpose: Huawei still has a fingerprint reader.
Unless you're literally Tim Cook, or a shareholder, why do you care about how much profit a smartphone company makes?
1. To prove iHaters wrong.
2. That's good for the stock, and I own AAPL stock.
Sure it does. Asset turnover is one of the factors called out in the DuPont equation. Grocery stores have low profit margins but the turnover makes them profitable.Quantity doesn't matter!
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Not going to argue if there is spyware on foreign devices, however how do you know for sure that there is no NSA spyware on Apple devices. Just saying if I was a foreign consumer purchasing an Apple product manufactured in China for an American company and sold in this example China, should I not be suspect of Apple.
How do we really know that there is no "zero-day" type of trojan in iOS, considering one can circumvent via jailbreaks.
History always tends to repeat itself.Copying pays off, only Xiaomi does it better, and cheap sells.
All that matters is revenue.
I wrote off Huawei when the US banned sales. Sorry but, Buh bye.
Personally I wouldn’t want a cheap iPhone knock off, I like the real deal full experience. Huawei UI is severely lacking. Puhleez mention the elephant in the room.
If I was going to go android again I would go back to Samsung.
IMO I’d rather support South Korea and not China. Samsung hands down better.