Posted on 12/26/2015 12:48:50 PM PST by Swordmaker
AFTER a year of big Apple releases, analysts are predicting a flat 2016 where the world's biggest tech company refines product lines rather than produces the next big thing.
Apple’s share price has taken a battering in the past six months, with more than $220 billion slashed from the company’s value as analysts look towards an era of smartphone saturation.
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty recently predicted that 2016 would be first time that iPhone sales would shrink, dropping by up to three per cent.
Given the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus sold 13 million in their opening weekend, a jump from the 10 million sales for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus the previous year, a decline of that scale would be a massive turnaround. However the Morgan Stanley grim forecast was matched by other analysts, including Pacific Crest and KGI Securities.
Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jack Daw Research, was more positive about the iPhone’s future predicting that Apple would continue to grow sales but was pessimistic about the iPad, with the tablet market for all companies struggling as people fail to see compelling reasons to upgrade from their first tablet.
The problem for the year ahead for Apple was that in 2015 it was on the crest of a wave.
After years of rumours it launched its first wearable product, the Apple Watch, leapfrogging Samsung, Sony and others to become the dominant player.
IDC estimates that Apple will ship 21.3 million smartwatches this year. An analysis of the Apple figures suggests the Apple watch added US$1.7 billion to the coffers in just six months.
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An Apple phone may be the most expensive possession people will buy in some parts of developing countries. They might start with a $100 android but will always aspire to an iPhone for status, functionality, and lasting value. The cellular infrastructure to support all those phones doesn't cost a lot, the phones can easily be charged from a solar panel and lead acid battery, a myriad pf apps are being developed for market pricing, logistics, payment, data sharing, and similar small business apps that can turn mud hut villagers into savvy businessmen or women.
You’ve got me beat. I bought my first mac in 1986, second in 2011, third in 2013 and fourth this past summer.
I’ve only had the one MacBook Pro - still going strong after over five years. All my other Apple devices are iPods, iPads and an iPhone.
I have yet to see one of them provide a link to something they've created that rivals anything-- even something that ends up in a trash can-- at Apple. It's jealousy trolling. Bitterness about something. Maybe mom didn't like them enough. Maybe they can't afford Apple products. Who knows?
Buy Apple stock; it's a bargain.
I did, when it was in the teens and twenties before multiple stock splits. Happily enjoying retirement debt free. I keep asking those anti-Apple trolls how much stock they bought in all those other computer companies they championed (few did, and many of those companies are gone).
The patent is for the PROCESS, Okie, not the mobile device.
Who knows, I just enjoy tweaking Swordmaker because he’s such an applefan.
Like scaling it up to that level of amp draw is trivial.
Like scaling any battery technology up to that level of amp draw is trivial? I love how you criticize something you don't have a clue about. Producing hydrogen with such a system is trivial. . . if you can do it with a cellular phone to provide power for one month on one fueling, which is what was reported, one can easily scale it up to provide power for larger devices for shorter lengths of time and require more frequent refueling which was also described.
Fuel Cells are just that, cells which can be wired in series and parallel to provide whatever amount of average and voltage required.
It’s simple to separate hydrogen, yes doing it with with less power than you produce defeating E=MC2 is the hurdle.
Ha. Yes, keep asking. Everyone's a millionaire on the internet!
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