I like your way of thinking.Tim should buy 51% of Qualcomm and then fire all its staff. Fight fire with fire!
Tim should buy 51% of Qualcomm and then fire all its staff. Fight fire with fire!
Try this: Go to https://www.apple.com/de/ click on "iPhone" and then click on "iPhone 8" or "iPhone 7".Those phones aren't going to stop selling in Germany. They are selling right now.
Since when are 1-year-old phones obsolete? Or did you think you had stumbled onto an Android forum?Oh no, obsolete phones are banned. The horror.
That only impacts Apple's retail stores...the carriers (most of the business) are still selling them.Try this: Go to https://www.apple.com/de/ click on "iPhone" and then click on "iPhone 8" or "iPhone 7".
Or perhaps this one: under "iPhone" click "Vergleichen" (compare), select "iPhone 8" or "iPhone 7", scroll down and click the "Kaufen" (buy) button. Good luck with buying one.
I believe that not being able to sell their most "budget" iPhones in Germany is indeed a rather big hit for Apple.
No one buys them anymore, so who cares?Since when are 1-year-old phones obsolete? Or did you think you had stumbled onto an Android forum?
Qualcomm's *market cap*: $80-100 Billion depending on some fluctuations in 2018.
Apple's cash on hand: $237.1 Billion
Tim's quaking in his boots.
Hopefully, Apple can use this as a learning lesson. Prices are higher than what the market can bear and you can’t just take what you want/need without giving fair compensation in return. I know Apple will make things right and they’ll be fine. However, I increasingly believe that it will take someone other than Tim to make that so.2019 is off to a very rough start for Apple. Interesting to see where all of it leads this year. Is there a positive turn in the horizon? Right now I fail to see one.
Apple is far from doomed, and can survive the storm, but it's nonetheless hitting them hard.
To do so, only 25% of the stocks and an additional ingle share (a.k.a. blocking minority threshold) would be required, genius.Tim should buy 51% of Qualcomm and then fire all its staff. Fight fire with fire!
What's the logic in banning it in Germany only? Anyone who wants one will just go to any of the neighbouring EU countries and buy their phone. Sure its a little more inconvenient, but still not out of the realm of possibility for most people.
If they banned the sales in the entire EU, that would leave a mark.
To do so, only 25% of the stocks and an additional ingle share (a.k.a. blocking minority threshold) would be required, genius.
Hopefully, Apple can use this as a learning lesson. Prices are higher than what the market can bear and you can’t just take what you want/need without giving fair compensation in return. I know Apple will make things right and they’ll be fine. However, I increasingly believe that it will take someone other than Tim to make that so.
What's the logic in banning it in Germany only? Anyone who wants one will just go to any of the neighbouring EU countries and buy their phone. Sure its a little more inconvenient, but still not out of the realm of possibility for most people.
If they banned the sales in the entire EU, that would leave a mark.
I'm sure they can fix it too. But I have a suspicion that doing so won't be as easy simply "dropping prices". A lot of internal goings on will have to change before that happens because you firstly need to stop the need of such profits. For instance as a single example, autonomous car projects aren't cheap to fund and less so to implement into an actual vehicle… where do you think that funding comes from?
My fear for Apple is that they're done irreparable damage already and given this is very subjective I'm only going to speak for myself here. I switch to Android September 2018 and I'm happy with what I can buy for 300-400€ (including taxes). Even if Apple were to take a third off the price of the Xs its still not going to result in my returning to Apple. Apple now has to earn my money by giving me a better option in the 300-400€ price point rather than before where all they needed to do was to offer me something at 600€ and I'd be lazy and just buy it. They've totally lost that "free pass" on my purchases and I can almost guarantee you my tablet purchase next year won't be a replacement iPad.
Because each EU countries has its own laws and their own legal process to follow. Just the same as the the US legal system doesn't any bearing on the legal system, and its sovereignty, in Canada… or does it?
except 99% of their cash reserves are stashed in overseas tax havens.
Then why did the X sell so well and Apple had a great 2017, if people didn't tolerate the high prices?Hopefully, Apple can use this as a learning lesson. Prices are higher than what the market can bear and you can’t just take what you want/need without giving fair compensation in return. I know Apple will make things right and they’ll be fine. However, I increasingly believe that it will take someone other than Tim to make that so.
But then the bond wouldn’t be $1.5bn, but $10bn. Qualcomm has to put up money so if the final injunction is rejected, Apple gets paid for the damage caused.What's the logic in banning it in Germany only? Anyone who wants one will just go to any of the neighbouring EU countries and buy their phone. Sure its a little more inconvenient, but still not out of the realm of possibility for most people.
If they banned the sales in the entire EU, that would leave a mark.
They don’t seem to be tolerating those high prices now as well as Tim had hoped for. I guess this will make Apple reevaluate their prices for 2019 and perhaps even push them to be a little more aggressive on their next iPhone than they thought they had to be when it comes to features/design. Perhaps, Apple will copy the punch hole in the display that Samsung is using on the S10 sooner than 2020.Then why did the X sell so well and Apple had a great 2017, if people didn't tolerate the high prices?
Apple is fine and will do fine under Tim. After all their guidance was off and they only now expect $84B in this quarter? What a let down. /s
iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 have disappeared on the German Apple website