Tim Cook: iPhone X is a 'Super Bowl Winner' Even if You Wanted It to Win 'By a Few More Points'

[dirt_farmer]

And Louis gerstner when he took over ibm knew nothing about technology either.

Precisely. Look where IBM is now.

They are a cautionary tale.
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And I think it says something when so many self-styled tech blogs and analysts continue to get Apple so wrong.

Maybe Apple is just one of those tech companies where conventional tech wisdom just doesn’t apply. Like how in 2013, people were claiming left and right how Apple would be disrupted by cheaper android phones that were supposedly good enough. Yet Apple would go on to introduce more expensive phones, and proceed to sell more iPhones as a result. Everything Apple has done seems to defy traditional disruption theory. They have done the opposite of what many a critic claimed they ought to do, and prospered for it.

Something for the naysayers to reflect upon, perhaps?

Apple WAS disrupted by those cheaper phones. Apple is clinging to the margins of the market they invented; barely hanging on and facing an increasingly grumbly user base.

The "Apple is overrated" meme is popular among millennials and Gen z now because they keep getting burned by Apple hype and Apple price tags not corresponding to the buggy phone with a fragile screen and bad battery life they end up with.

Never mind the desktop which they seem to have quietly abandoned and hoped nobody would notice.

 

[I7guy]

Precisely. Look where IBM is now.

They are a cautionary tale...

Precisely, after Gertsner turned around IBM and left. So you are saying after Tim Cook leaves Apple, the same will happen to Apple. Yes, it's a cautionary tale about how Tim has expanded Apple and what may happen when he leaves.

As far as the rest of your quote, which I didn't bother with, the millenials I know are buying apple products, like they had a fire sale. You don't get $62B in a quarter by alienating your client base.

 

[nsayer]

Ford invented the automobile and the industry.

Aaaand we're done here.

 

[Cigsm]

what world do you live in? Sales are up. Revenue is up. Stock price is up. I’m a millennial and literally zero of my friends would switch to Android.

Precisely. Look where IBM is now.

They are a cautionary tale.
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Apple WAS disrupted by those cheaper phones. Apple is clinging to the margins of the market they invented; barely hanging on and facing an increasingly grumbly user base.

The "Apple is overrated" meme is popular among millennials and Gen z now because they keep getting burned by Apple hype and Apple price tags not corresponding to the buggy phone with a fragile screen and bad battery life they end up with.

Never mind the desktop which they seem to have quietly abandoned and hoped nobody would notice.

 

[dirt_farmer]

what world do you live in? Sales are up. Revenue is up. Stock price is up. I’m a millennial and literally zero of my friends would switch to Android.

What world do you live in?

 

[I7guy]

What world do you live in?

The one where stock is up, sales are up, revenue is up and Tim Cook is doing a great job.

 

[ipponrg]

What world do you live in?

Watch the movie Idiocracy. It's starting to head there

what world do you live in? Sales are up. Revenue is up. Stock price is up. I’m a millennial and literally zero of my friends would switch to Android.

I'd say 50% of my friends who reside in NYC/SF/LA who were former die-hard Apple fanboys have switched to Android particularly the flagship Google phones.

There are quite a number of people who don't qualify their purchases by sales/revenue/stock. There are a number of people who do qualify their purchases by either user experience or image (i.e luxury / lifestyle choices).

 

[I7guy]

Watch the movie Idiocracy. It's starting to head there



I'd say 50% of my friends who reside in NYC/SF/LA who were former die-hard Apple fanboys have switched to Android particularly the flagship Google phones.

There are quite a number of people who don't qualify their purchases by sales/revenue/stock. There are a number of people who do qualify their purchases by either user experience or image (i.e luxury / lifestyle choices).

Nobody quantifies purchase via the annual report. That’s a counter to the “Apple is doomed” narrative. And personally I can’t comment on the reason people spend their money, it’s their money their rational.

And On the same note about switching platforms I know former android fans now immersed in the Apple system.

It goes all ways.

 

[dirt_farmer]

Watch the movie Idiocracy. It's starting to head there



I'd say 50% of my friends who reside in NYC/SF/LA who were former die-hard Apple fanboys have switched to Android particularly the flagship Google phones.

There are quite a number of people who don't qualify their purchases by sales/revenue/stock. There are a number of people who do qualify their purchases by either user experience or image (i.e luxury / lifestyle choices).

Exactly.

Lots of companies sell bad or outdated product at high margins and get rewarded by investors with a high stock price. For awhile.

That doesn't necessarily mean that they are on the right track or doing something sustainable.

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