[WENDLE]

I threw both mine away. I want privacy.

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

Interesting. I’m actually in the market for one. An iPhone 6s plus.

[Norm Lenhart]

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”.

[roadcat]

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.

[freedumb2003]

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.

[4rcane]

I’m still using my iphone 4. Besides being faster, there’s not much change. My next upgrade will be to iphone 4s

[ctdonath2]

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).

[Swordmaker]

"Every Major Apple Analyst is Now Predicting a Decline in iPhone Sales" - Says Business Insider Australia. . . and posted by our resident anti-Apple mavin of negativity, Up Yours Marxists, all based on a few rumors. It is within two weeks of Apple's Financial Report for the 1st quarter of Apple's Fiscal year, the last calendar quarter of 2015, and that makes it traditional FUD season in the media. We shall see what Apple says about their performance last quarter and their guidance for this quarter on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET. In the meantime, FUD SEASON is on and Apple is fair game for all the FUD spreaders everywhere, including on FreeRepublic such as Up Yours Marxists! -- PING!

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[Behind Liberal Lines]

I have a 5 and I’m keeping it as long as I can. I don’t need that giant phone they started making.

[r_barton]

Apple has become a one trick pony.

[RockyTx]

I have been saying for years that I thought
that someday soon,

a smartphone would be a $10 giveaway item

[HamiltonJay]

We are entering another worldwide recession, you are going to see sales of EVERYTHING, particularly things in Asia/China go way down... I think folks are trying to write way too much into 1 companies reaction to a global cycle here.