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Posted on 01/12/2016 6:59:00 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists
Piper Jaffrey's Gene Munster, one of the better-known analysts who covers Apple, has joined the ranks of his colleagues and competitors who are predicting a decline in iPhone sales when CEO Tim Cook reports his December quarterly earnings on January 26.
Of the seven most recent analyst reports that Business Insider has viewed, all of them now predict an upcoming slump in the number of iPhone units sold. One group, Pacific Crest, all but accused Apple of shading the truth about its sales prospects in a previous earnings call, in a note that said, "Management's confidence now looks highly likely to be misplaced, which suggests that it was either ignorant of the challenges it faced or deliberately overstating underlying trends."
Apple has never before reported a decline in iPhone sales. Although the stock has already declined 26% over the last few months, analysts have not yet booked-in an actual reported decline to their models. And the tech industry generally has never lived in a world in which Apple has struggled to sell more phones. So 2016 is looking like it will be a bumpy ride for CEO Tim Cook. (Of course, iPhone 7 - due in September - is likely to fix those problems.)
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I threw both mine away. I want privacy.
Interesting. I’m actually in the market for one. An iPhone 6s plus.
Flooding the market with gotta have items every time you turn around probably hit the tolerance limit of the fanboys.
That and the fact that like with PCs and horsepower, they achieved a level of thech people are good with and don’t clamor for incremental upgrades.
I just did an upgrade on my graphics card to run Fallout 4 maxed. When I checked the CPU usage and memory/data transfer on my 2.5 year old motherboard/CPU I found not even 50% usage and nowhere bottlenecking the system under very heavy load. I would bet thats where the iphone is now. “Good enough”.
Exactly. Good enough for me. How fast do I really need my data anyway? Who is going to be impressed by it.
Unless I’m an engineer or surgeon, I can wait a few seconds without thinking the sky is about to fall.
Ah, forgive me, I keep forgetting the iPhone types stay plugged into Twitter and Facebook 24/7 with the damn things. And take selfies non-stop..
I just watched comparing the new PC hotness DDR4 ram and the new Skylake CPUs. The difference in real world benefit is not nearly worth the upgrade costs for anyone but professional users or technophiles wanting to be on the bleeding edge of performance.
The economy is going belly up all over the world. Shoe sales are declining. Therefore, shoe companies will die and no one can get shoes again. Same can be said of most products, but Android phones are really declining and will disappear long before iPhones.
It’s a dandy.
I had some gripes on a nuts-and-bolts technical level with the iPhone 4 and 5 models and attempted to go the Samsung/Android route which was like walking a mile in bare feet on a hot road with sand in my swimsuit.
Quickly went back to the iPhone. In a happy coincidence iOS 9 sorted out many of the issues that I had before.
And even then, the iphone is well beyond that power/need level. It’s squarely in the want category and thats a diminishing market. New for new sake is damn expensive after a while.
Apple stopped being evolutionary and disruptive a LONG time ago.
They are just in the tinker business now.
In head to head Galaxy 6 and Edge are at least as good (and probably better). And there have been Android watches for the last 3+ years as good or better (certainly better value) than the iWatch.
Five years ago Nokia invented a $100 phone in order to sell a billion in India and China. When asked about it, Steve Jobs said something like, Let them sell a billion for $100.
iPhones are excellent but too expensive. I use an iPhone 3GS without internet and it syncs perfectly with my Mac mini with OS 10.8. Super nice.
Just think, if Steve approved of a $100 phone for the new middle class (making $12,000 a year) in India and China, then Apple would continue to be strong. As it is now, Apple has peaked.
Nokia and others will fill the gap and sell items to the new middle class. People who are starting to make $12,000 a year love their phones and shampoo and rice makers.
It must be because they are all converging upon some Chinese (non)standard of lightweight, poorly-stitched rubbish.
Even so-called active or endurance brands have turned into carpet slippers. Rockport, Timberland, et al.
Athletic shoe makers are doing their damnedest to fool the market with lightweight this, minimalist that but a foot strike in running, or even walking, requires stability and shock absorption ie the very things athletic shoes companies once advertised.
For further proof, I give you Allen Edmonds, who have not compromised on materials or construction. In the Obama economy, AE shoes are $350/pair which seems outrageous....until you buy Bostonians or other previously respectable brands and they fall apart inside a year.
I’m still using my iphone 4. Besides being faster, there’s not much change. My next upgrade will be to iphone 4s
Eventually good enough is good enough, toasters got there decades ago. Computers got there in the last 10 years. Phones are getting there.
The only thing I am interested in is a better camera in my phone, every thing else has been good enough for a couple of years.
Well, the market DOES have a hard limit (world population 7 billion), and most people who are going to get an iPhone have one - and given the quality of the latest models, further advancements provide diminishing returns for upgrades (i.e.: longer periods between upgrades). No surprise there may be a decrease in growth (which is STILL GROWTH).
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Really? But the iPhone is the only cell phone out there that the government does not have a backdoor into or a means to break in to. Even the Hacker Team company, the company that sells tools to government agencies such as the NSA, CEA, FBI, MI6, the Surete, and police departments and other investigative government organizations, states they have tools to break into every mobile device in the world EXCEPT Apple's iOS (unless it has been jailbroken by the owner). They are offering a $1 million bounty to any hacker who can provide a clue as to how to do crack an unjailbroken iPhone or iPad.
Even Apple states they cannot decrypt a user's files. Messages sent with Apple's iMessages are equally un-decryptable.
So why would you go with something less secure?
Apple was/is selling the iPhone 4S in India up to about a year ago. Now they are selling the iPhone 5 in india. . . for quite a low price I understand. China's middle class makes far more than $12,000 a year equivalent.
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