I am NOT going to repeat what I have told you four times before, because you seem to be a slow learner or just completely DENSE. It will make no difference, because the cost will be the same. Apple saw NO DROP IN SALES WHEN Verizon and AT&T started offering their programs that already did that two years ago. . . and T-Mobile has been adding millions of subscribers with exactly that model. Give it a rest with spamming these threads with the same identical comment over and over and over again. You are wrong.
I don’t agree with you but we will keep a close eye on phone company stock over the next 18 months and find out if you are right.
AT&T and Verizon are the main companies and they just stopped phone deals.
I agree. I think Apple will be LEAST impacted by that, as they have the high end market wrapped up, and the high end buyer doesn’t have am issue dropping a grand every two years for a new phone.
Regarding this article, since this intersects the area I work in, I will offer a comment. This guy has absolutely no clue, and is just guessing. As I mentioned previously, Apple is significantly ahead (with performance) of the other companies making the SoC used in phones. They didn’t get there via relying on area/density improvements from moving to newer processes, those are a given; they got there by buying a company that made innovative ARM processors, and continuing to drive improvements in the micro-arcitecture since.
Other than modest incremental performance and power improvements, it’s not clear what is in the future for the Ax. The author speculates a new video processor, but unless Apple has some new software that needs that, it is not clear what value there is there. Higher resolution displays? Why? The retina display is already a higher resolution than the eye can see. Maybe they are going to do somethng similar to the Continuum feature in Windows 10 Phone (connect your phone to monitor, keyboard, becomes a desktop replacement for people on the go).