Yes, I have owned three which have all had to have their screens replaced, the only ones of the dozen or more phones I have owned because they are overpriced cheaply made products.
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iPhone Generated Record-Breaking Share of Profits Last Quarter Despite Continued Sales Decline
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So a datapoint of one enables you to make a broad, sweeping generalization. That's some sound reasoning.
iPhone is not just any cellphone.Did the Moto have an App Store?Did it have Retina?Was it the fastest phone on he planet?Cell phones were invented by Motorola in the 1980s, MP3 players were already around, and computers were around since the Turing engine. Best is at best subjective. Here goes the hyperbole again.
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Did MP3 players have iTunes or an App Store?
You can try to wriggle out as much as you want.Macs and Windows were the start of real computing.Steve Jobs invented the only relevant Windows competitor
You clearly haven't read the news. It was pretty much confirmed Ive is (fortunately) leaving the company.Apparently Apple really wants new blood as Ive's design is getting a little long in the tooth.That $300 book was a tribute to himYep, We're all in our way out.However the team of cook/Ive is in for the long haul.
Hahaha.Thats a good one.Someone clearly forgot about Touch Disease and hiss gate.Apple isn't even admitting their fault for the former [/QUOTE]
Move the goalposts much? What does an app store have to do with dialing a cell phone number? Seems like just a bunch of unrelated random things thrown into posts that don't address the context of the thread.
Data point of 3 with 100% breakage, plus my 3GS destroyed itself with battery swelling to breakage of phone; cheaply made, exorbitantly expensive phones. Experience is the best teacher, if 100% of a product fails you learn to avoid that product, as they say, "Three strikes and you're out" and with the battery swelling issue of my 3GS I gave iPhones 4 strikes actually.
Has everything to do with Jobs inventing the smartphone category as the iPhone is not a conventional cellphone. Have a good day
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While I hear what you're saying... you realize that it's not 100% of ALL iPhones that fail, right?
I'm sorry you've had bad luck with 4 iPhones... but that's not what happens to every iPhone owner.
And to add to your point I had to replace my iPhone 6 4 times for yellow tint at the top before I finally settled on one and even that one still has it.My 7 Plus does not have any tint but I guess I was just a lucky guy because one of my friend's iPhone 7 still has that tint at the top
Yes, he invented the iphone 1 as Timmy invented the iphone 5s. Have a great Thanksgiving.
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Sounds like you drew the short straw, however, still a data point of essentially one. My data point of one is my iphone 4 is still working. My two iphone 5s are still working, my two ipad 2s are still in service and working well. So to me apple makes high quality products.
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Actually yes you're right, I was active everyday until that awful MBP release.
Then I updated to iOS 10 this week and realized it was a huge mistake. Apple is getting worse with every new product to the point it appears they're trolling us.
If that's how you see this, then there's no point in continuing this, as you're too set on your ways to see logic beyond your own. Seems like we're done here.
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It doesn't necessarily matter, for a singular quarter, if appeals profit went up or not, so long as apples share of profits went up. If the smartphone industry as a whole is suffering, but Apple increasingly is doing well, it shows Apple make a superior product to the rest of smartphone makers, rather than iPhones losing popularity or becoming worse.
I'm avoiding logic beyond my own yet you're the one avoiding the questions after your own was answered. Nice projection.
So in a nutshell, you can't name a single instance of a company losing sales but continuing to make record breaking profits indefinitely, but are under the impression that Apple will make this unprecedented achievement, and questioning anyone who thinks otherwise.... Even when their opinions are based on history and yours are based on, well... Nothing
So in a nutshell, you can't name a single instance of a company losing sales but continuing to make record breaking profits indefinitely, but are under the impression that Apple will make this unprecedented achievement, and questioning anyone who thinks otherwise.... Even when their opinions are based on history and yours are based on, well... Nothing
Read my post again.Jobs invented the smartphone category.5s is just another run of the mill phone under that category . And what's so revolutionary about the 5s anyway .Its practically just a 5 with a fingerprint sensor
OT-It looks like analysts are saying it's all over for Apple after the 2017 iPhone
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/11/24/happy-thanksgiving-apple-face-decade-long-malaise/
"Make no mistake. In the short-to-medium term, Apple is going to be fine. It’s too big and too rich to fail.
But as we all saw with Blackberry, and indeed with Apple in the 1990’s, it’s incredibly easy to fall into a downward spiral that results in the gradual strangulation of the company. The difference is that this time around, there’s no visionary Steve Jobs to save it."
"Models created by Oppenheimer analyst Andrew Uerkwitz suggest that sales of the iPhone (which accounts for an astronomical share of Apple’s profits) are going to peak with next year’s 10th anniversary model"
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So the iPhone 5S was just an upgraded iPhone 5... which itself was simply an upgraded iPhone 4S... and so on.
But doesn't this same thing happen within ALL categories of products?
Once a category gets established... the products themselves improve slightly over time within that category.
We used to have big heavy CRT televisions. Even though they improved over time... they were fundamentally the same for 80 years.
Then someone invented the flat-panel television.
And every TV since then has just been an improvement of that original flat-panel TV.
But this isn't bad... it's just how it goes.
Isn't it obvious from your examples?
Apple takes normal everyday technology and makes them more intuitive to use and more personal to us. That's why they are going into new areas such as health, AR and self driving cars. Because they see the potential to make these technologies more personal and intimate and offer a better user experience beyond what the competition can provide.
Apple has shown us that form and function don't have to be mutually exclusive. Thanks to Apple, companies now pay more attention to design and I get to enjoy products that both look great and work great.
That to me is just as important. The emphasis on usability as opposed to just raw specs in a vacuum.
Yes, we do. That's why I didn't buy the iPhone 7. Not at that price.
The iPhone 7 is a stop gap measure to make sure the iPhone 8 sales show a huge jump for the Anniversary model.They artifically capped the sales with the 7 release to build up the demand for the iPhone 8.
The smartphone was invented by blackberry. A different type of smartphone was invented by Apple. Wha was so revolutionary about any iPhone, using your logic , just incremental upgrades? Right? See your trying to minimize Tim Cook, while aggrandizing sj; the same logic can be used the other way.
Look at Samsung for a company that's could be in a downward spiral. Exploding phones, appliances, loss of its condumer base. Loosing customer orders. It's easy to see how this could happen even mire quickly than Apple.
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Prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, not some other Internet speculation, aka tin foil conspiracy.
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Someone is buying them.
Touch Screens.And I havent even gotten started on the display and processing power If it werent for Jobs THIS would have been the result
Now THIS is a revolution
Samsung in a downward spiral?Maybe in an alternate dimensions.In case you hadnt noticed,washers and phones arent the only products Sammy makes.SSD,Televisons,Processors,Notebooks,Microwaves.The Note 7 is just a drop in the pond as LG despite not having a Note 7 to deal with STILL could not match Samsung's profits
What are Apple's major revenue sources?Oh yeah 65% on 1 single product.
The next year iPhone is all the proof I need.This is the first time in 10 years Apple didnt redesign the chassis on a number change.If you observe the difference between iPhone 8 and 7 its mindboggingly HUGE.Curved OLED display,3D Camera,No home button,All glass construction.Apple could have ported over at least a quarter of its features yet they didnt because they want to create a pent up demand like the did for the iPhone 6 and break sales records with 1 release.
Its the reason why analysts are predicting gloomy outlooks for Apple after next year
Goldman, GM, Atari, circuit city, Polaroid, sharper image, borders. The too big to fail mentality is just that.
So you haven't proved it from a shadow of a doubt, because there is no proof. There only is reality in this universe.
As pointed out to you quite recently, Apple was not the first with an app store, retina, fast CPU/GPU, etc. Nor the first device with a finger friendly UI.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-5-market-share.2011987/page-11#post-23891716
More nonsense and myth. Some of this also answered in post above.
Moreover, Android was out to compete with Windows Mobile, which is why it had BOTH a cursor and touchscreen driven version.
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but ifanboys still flock to it like it's the greatest invention ever.
Serious!!!
My first smart-phone with a screen was a Motorola with that funky spring-loaded flexible touch screen and Android.
It didn't take long to make the jump to iPhone and the quality of its glass screen.
Happy Black Friday all you cynics who's life is all about complaining.