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.
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Golly, I bet they'll think of something.
Think Jobs will come back and pull their fat out of the fire again?
Disney Inc managed to soldier on without Walt.
... doing the same thing over and over, even.
You’re playing loose with facts. Apple is nowhere in the fire. Last time around in the 1990s, they were a few months away from going down. Lots of companies would kill to have the position Apple has as a highly successful rich company. Apple has enough cash to survive many dozens of years. “Fat in the fire!” Hah!
Yep. And people tend to forget that Steve Jobs rescued Disney with the merger of his Pixar company. Most stuff you see in a Disney store is related to Pixar companies (although Lucas Star Wars stuff is beginning to challenge the Pixar toys). Jobs family ended up having a majority stake in Disney stock, which rose after the merger.
Kind of like every release of Windows being the "last nail in Microsoft's coffin"?
Like building RISC based computers?
I expect Microsoft to keep Windows around for the next 25 years. Until all the fans die off (or give up on it). I'll be able to add to my collection of Windows versions, going all the way back to my Windows 1.0 floppies (not to mention DOS 1.1).
Do you happen to have a copy of the mythical open source Exchange killer in there?
$14.75 (and cheaper) for the iPad...
No, just old stuff. I was a Windows/NT server admin before retiring a long time ago. Kept a lot of crap, my wife always on me to dump it saying I never use it. Keepsakes of all the pain dealing with DOS and Windows.
Yes, and one time they had to be bailed out by Microsoft to stay in business.
They also don’t have Jobs now.
i bet the SurfaceBook is even worse. I read it was a nightmare to disassemble.
So what, you were talking about extreme price for Surface Pro. I am not comparing Apple and Microsoft.
True. But the Apple haters always go to extremes. Just pointing out that batteries for the iPad can be had much cheaper than the batteries for the Surface. Which should not be a reason for not buying a product. Batteries are not easily replaced on many manufacturer’s products, because of the push for thinner and lighter products. Soon, third party suppliers jump in and offer cheaper batteries and affordable replacement services. Apple is a target for venom just because they’re successful. All products have their merits, and the marketplace has the final say as to whether the company behind them prospers.
There are at least four businesses within three miles of where I live that will be happy to do it for you while you wait, requiring no shipping, and fairly inexpensive. As I said, you can also do-it-yourself. I just spent an hour replacing my daughter's iPad 3's digitizer screen which she had dropped and cracked. It was fairly easy to do. I could have replaced the batteries while I had it apart. It didn't need replacement batteries.
I wouldn't recommend doing it yourself with apple device. Way too complicated for the average person - fragile flex circuits, etc. Like trying to fold a map.
Why buy batteries or replacement services from Apple. There are thousands of businesses wiling to do it for your economically and quickly.
You want Apple to give you $500 on your next purchase because you don't know how to replace your previous purchase batteries?. How long did those devices last for you? How much use did you get out of them before the batteries would no longer take a charge? I have no doubt they lasted for years. YOU decided it was not worth a small charge to replace the batteries to restore your Apple devices to full functionality, not Apple.
You think you are being "fair"? You apparently want your products with free services for life and to never be superseded by later models. You are being ridiculous to say you are being fair.
Let me fix this for you:
I posted the best comments atmost lies on that thread.
There, that's better. Much more truthful, Baron von Munchausen.
Not really true. Most major releases of iOS will fix any slownesses by a couple of fix releases within weeks. Not a single iOS release has made earlier devices "unusable." If the device cannot use the update, it simply will not install. Your 3Gs was an aberration that was fixed in a later release. For your Safari issues, have you tried restoring to factory and then re-synching your data?
I have had a iPad Air and no issues with Safari performance. I just handed it off to my girlfriend to replace her old iPad 2 when I bought my iPad Pro. She is finding no problems with it either. That iPad Air is up-to-date with iOS 9.2. As I said, Safari runs fine on it.
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