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Apple sales set to slump in 2016 with no new products, analysts warn
News Corp Australia Network ^ | 12/27/2015 | Rod Chester

Posted on 12/27/2015 8:49:52 AM PST by Scutter

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; business; technology
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1 posted on 12/27/2015 8:49:52 AM PST by Scutter
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To: Swordmaker

ping


2 posted on 12/27/2015 8:50:26 AM PST by Scutter
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To: Scutter

Welcome to “mature” markets, Apple.


3 posted on 12/27/2015 8:51:24 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Exactly. Then when they do introduce a significant improvement, let’s say to OS-X, the legions of crusty old farts will come out to rail and rant about how awful it is and how they’ll never upgrade (ala Windows 10)


4 posted on 12/27/2015 8:56:11 AM PST by Scutter
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To: Scutter

It is a shame Steve Jobs died, some of the thing Cook has done are not up to Jobs standards. It is a shame.


5 posted on 12/27/2015 8:56:37 AM PST by matt04
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To: dfwgator

I’m still using some old generation iPad and old phones. I don’t have a I watch yet. Been thinking about it for this year.


6 posted on 12/27/2015 9:00:13 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Scutter

LOL, I’m one of those crusty old ones.

Conversely, I’ve never understood the logic of your types.

Being you just gotta have it because it’s new.

If something still serves my needs to perfection, I just think it’s a gross waste of money if not sheer lunacy to get something new just because it’s new. There is no logic to it.

Now if there is logic to this that I’ve missed, please enlighten me.


7 posted on 12/27/2015 9:05:58 AM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: redfreedom

By that logic, we’d all be riding in buggies and using candles for light. I don’t begrudge you the right to stick with what you like, I just wish you’d resist the urge to tell everyone how awful some new tech is, when you really have no idea.


8 posted on 12/27/2015 9:10:15 AM PST by Scutter
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To: Scutter

Prepare for incoming.


9 posted on 12/27/2015 9:11:31 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Scutter

Sheldon?


10 posted on 12/27/2015 9:13:46 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: redfreedom

Not to worry there is planned obsolescence in Apple products. If a dead unreplaceable battery doesn’t obsolete your device, lack of OS support will.


11 posted on 12/27/2015 9:15:11 AM PST by dhs12345
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Posted earlier by Swordmaker.


12 posted on 12/27/2015 9:15:14 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: VanDeKoik
Prepare for incoming.

Crazy female astronaut level incoming in three colors of magic marker.

13 posted on 12/27/2015 9:16:29 AM PST by Stentor
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To: dayglored

Ok, thanks. I did use the FR “search” feature before posting...


14 posted on 12/27/2015 9:20:12 AM PST by Scutter
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To: Stentor
LOL
15 posted on 12/27/2015 9:22:09 AM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. Drake's Drum is Beating strongly.)
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To: dhs12345
Not to worry there is planned obsolescence in Apple products. If a dead unreplaceable battery doesn’t obsolete your device, lack of OS support will.
That is true, and they are perhaps one of the worst companies when it comes to this (I think it's truly planned), but this is by no means a unique-to-Apple problem.
16 posted on 12/27/2015 9:22:24 AM PST by Scutter
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To: VanDeKoik
> Prepare for incoming

What? For reposting an Apple thread whose eye-catching title doesn't match its content? Nah, standard fare.

As to its accuracy or lack thereof, let us remember to check back at the end of 2016 and see if Apple introduced any new products. Ought to be simple enough, right?

I often wish Microsoft was coming up with one or more new products per annum. I'm hoping that the Surface Book succeeds and encourages more hardware developments. It's about time Windows escaped the swamp of cheap-ass PC hardware manufacturers. Maybe MS can buy Alienware away from Dell or something... :-)

17 posted on 12/27/2015 9:27:42 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: moose07
LOL

Tubular Bells as predicted.

18 posted on 12/27/2015 9:32:30 AM PST by Stentor
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To: dfwgator

Exactly what is happening - harder to sell your product with greater frequency to folks that already have it. Disposable income is reduced with avg US worker and the upgrade model is less attractive when we already have one and don’t have disposable $.


19 posted on 12/27/2015 9:36:47 AM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: redfreedom; Scutter
Being you just gotta have it because it’s new.

Actually that's not the case. Most Mac users I know are perfectly happy with their several year old Macs that will keep going, and going, and going, and going. At my office we are finally having to upgrade iMacs and our server after eight years not because they will not run the latest OS X but because we just need faster machines to run the vertical solution dedicated software we need in our speciality.

Generally, you have to beat Apple products to death with a Mac Truck. We buy new products, not just because it's new, but because it offers new functions that increase our productivity. Otherwise, we stay with what we have.

20 posted on 12/27/2015 10:15:46 AM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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