Just keep thinking Apple doesn't know what they're doing.

[Jimmy James]

The original iPhone was a breakthrough and a perfect example of a company being proactive and innovative. The iPhone X is a reaction to the competition, introducing features that have been available for years. Big differance.

The original iPhone took an existing product (smartphone/pda) and added a multitouch screen, which Apple neither commissioned nor developed. They added their own software design, which is the same thing they've done here. The original iPhone itself was just a market iteration.

 

[CEmajr]

Very true. Also remember all the talk of "iPhone fatigue" and "Apple not innovating enough" in the face of Samsung's air gestures and phone tapping gimmicks circa 2012-2013. How Android was taking so much marketshare that Apple was doomed. Yet sales his risen exponentially since then and the company is more valuable than ever.

 

[stabile007]

Funny comments from Ballmer when Windows Mobile phones were the same price.
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In 2007 Apple built a better Palm/Blackberry/Windows device.

I remember the other phones having nicely subsidized pricing with the carriers at the time but you still had to sign a 2 year contract with AT&T just to get the iphone and that was unsubsidized. So yes outside of the carrier the other phones were just as expensive if not more expensive but at the time in that point in history no one actually paid those prices. Heck I remember when my Dad's flip phone died and he needed to buy a new one and he still had a year to go AT&T wanted like $400 for a replacement flip phone. Pricing was terrible back then and completely relied on getting you locked into a two year contract with the carrier.

 

[bnekic]

Agree with OP

 

[MaciMac100]

The hardware is amazing and stunningly beautiful, but the software is hideous and beyond idiotic. They actually put Control Center on the top of the insanely tall screen. That was their idea. It's groundbreaking how stupid their software teams are.

The distracting Home indicator is hilarious as well. It's almost as distracting as the notch at the top. I think what they were going for was a balancing of the distraction for your eyes both coming from the top and bottom of the display.

Well, I like a lot of stuff their software team has done... But here it feels like hardware was designed to show only Battery status and other indicators in AMOLED black ears.

 

[eye.surgeon]

The iphone's current market share is 6% so Ballmer was actually not far off. Despite the over-sized media attention they are a relatively small segment of the cellular phone market worldwide. It's a very profitable 6% though.

 

[Strelok]

The iphone's current market share is 6% so Ballmer was actually not far off. Despite the over-sized media attention they are a relatively small segment of the cellular phone market worldwide. It's a very profitable 6% though.

It’s still huge in the US, which arguably is one of the most important markets. In places like China and India, the lowest priced phones usually dominate. Europe doesn’t have a great history with iPhones since they generally cost a lot there and people seem more interested in slightly cheaper prices w/ Android. Also, WhatsApp and other messaging apps are more prevalent, so iMessage and FaceTime aren’t features super important there.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/digitaltren...core-smartphone-market-share-january-2017.jpg

 

[stabile007]

It’s still huge in the US, which arguably is one of the most important markets. In places like China and India, the lowest priced phones usually dominate. Europe doesn’t have a great history with iPhones since they generally cost a lot there and people seem more interested in slightly cheaper prices w/ Android. Also, WhatsApp and other messaging apps are more prevalent, so iMessage and FaceTime aren’t features super important there.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/digitaltren...core-smartphone-market-share-january-2017.jpg

That's why he said it is a very valuable 6%. It is like Apple computers. They make up like 10% of the market but it is a very valuable 10%. Apple doesn't need to be huge marketshare just needs to be profitable.