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I think it is somewhat of a comment on the smartphone market overall too. The market is essentially saturated, and people are holding onto devices longer since speed / software compatibility / and features have more or less leveled off.

This. I was a regular annual iPhone updater up until the 6 plus, then I stopped because it wasn't worth it and the prices were getting daft. I have upgraded to an XR but that will probably do me for another five years at least. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
 
Wow, I'm so scared. Typical guessing from analysts who made up their original forecast and now make up their revision to the made up forecast with no real data.

Ming Chi Kuo is a good leaker for features, but no analyst has really ever nailed demand for iPhones. It's too hard.
 
The 1080p LCD-based Huawei P20 Lite (which the XR roughly competes with) is just £229 outright. Is the XR better? Maybe. But it's not £520 better. Even going up tiers to the P20 (£399) and the flagship P20 Pro (£629) make the iPhone prices look ludicrous. I just don't see how Apple is going to sustain these prices against such decent competition.

I think this is the real crux of the issue. For Apple to sell their services, they need people to buy their products. But if people start to perceive that they can get a better value from competitor's devices, how long will they continue to buy Apple products.

Part of Apple's success comes from their market share. I don't know know if they can go back to just being a niche player like they were with their computers. It's pretty difficult for companies to scale down. Just look at Sears in the U.S. as an example.
 
Uh-oh. Almost looks like the XR is going to be a repeat of the iPhone 5c. I thought people loved phablets?
They do. Evidence to the contrary?

Apple sold more iPhones in FY2018 than FY2017 and for higher ASPs.

This is simply a modification made to yet another guess based on made up numbers. He basically said, "Before I thought they'd sell 100M but due to what I've been hearing, I think it's 70M."

It's literally meaningless.
 
I gotta wonder sometimes, does he do this on purpose, have the stock drop knowing how much influence he has (despite not being 100% accurate), buy stock low, then sell when Apple says "the iPhone Xr is our fastest and best selling iPhone ever" spiel?
 
Why is it whenever apple is expected to sell less items, either Tim Cook or other analysts blame either a trade war, or some other reason, but never say that the consumer is slowly waking up to see that apple's old tech isn't enough to sell as much as it used to?

Because that's the subjective opinion of misinformed biased forum posters, rather than what evidence should be--objective and based on facts.
 
??? Use my XS Max daily, not had a headache yet!
It only affects a small, unfortunate portion of the userbase, at least as far as we know. If I had to poorly explain, it’s because OLED screens primarily only use the red and green lights to control brightness, so it flashes the blue light at a high, unnoticeable frequency to give off the impression that the blue lights are of the same brightness as the red and green ones. Normally this isn’t a problem, but in the case of the iPhone X line, it’s abnormally low—something like 220Hz, which on most devices is far into the thousands.

There’s no way of accurately determining how many users the problem affects because the average user isn’t aware of the PWM in the device that could be causing all these side effects, but I’ve seen MR users guess that it affects anywhere from >1% of the userbase to maybe even 10%.

I have non-photosensitive epilepsy, but I don’t want to take the risk of all the added eyestrain.

More recently, discussions have popped up concerning the constantly-flashing infrared light used for Face ID, and whether that could be a factor in all this.
 
Weird cause I haven't bought an iPhone since the 6s and even I bought an XR. Giving up 3D touch required some thought but it's probably for the best as it had ergonomic issues anyway.

Why not the XS? Not a fan of pentile screens since the first Androids had them and no interest in fashionable stainless steel or pointless dual cameras.
 
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When I looked at the Xr 2 things to me really stood out and stopped me from switching this year. 1 the weight it is a heavy ass phone.
2 after having amoled screens of 4k the last 4 years that lcd looked blah,
really bad when viewing from the side or odd angle. It goes pinkish. I keep my screen setting at FHD and not UHD on my galaxy.
One last thing that stopped me was the price of the Xr $749 is too much for it imvho, I found the XS much more to my liking but after buying an s9+ for $425 1k seemed to high. I'm weird that way. I'll switch eventually probably next year. I have a macbook so iPhone is the next logical step.
 
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I think the market is saturated and people are pretty happy with what they already have as it works great for them. I got the Xr because my SE was simply to small for on the road computing to me. I love it and am pretty happy with the size. But I kept my SE with a separate phone number for all the times I need a smaller phone. e.g. when I go running.
 
P&L reports will rely strictly upon emojis to provide result ranges.

:( = must close our doors
:mad: = why aren’t people buying our stuff!
:eek: = missed expectations
;) = we did ok
:oops: = next quarter I promise
:) = made expectations
:apple: = blew it out of the water
Hahaha brilliant
 
Why is it whenever apple is expected to sell less items, either Tim Cook or other analysts blame either a trade war, or some other reason, but never say that the consumer is slowly waking up to see that apple's old tech isn't enough to sell as much as it used to?
Why is it whenever Apple is expected to sell fewer items, it turns out to have been wrong when they actually report sales?

These reports are NEVER true in reality. Look at the numbers people. Apple just sold MORE iPhones at way higher ASPs in FY 2018 than FY 2017.

iPhone unit sales have NOT declined...FACT...despite prediction and prediction that they would.

Moral of the story...these reports are always debunked when Apple reports.

Apple also does NOT and has never guided for unit sales. EVERY "estimate" you see for unit sales is made up by some analyst. That's why Apple said, "Forget it, no more unit sales reporting." It's pointless and focuses on the wrong thing.
 
I’m good with it. I love Apple but I hope this drives the message that they’ve spiked prices almost double on iPhones and people are saying “no”.

I’m still sticking with Apple should mimic their iPad line:

iPhone Mini: All screen SE2 basically
iPhone: Current iPhone XS
iPhone Pro: Current iPhone XS Max

Make them $599,$699,$799 and Apple would sell tons.
 
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