Posted on 01/22/2013 3:40:22 PM PST by library user
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Insiders must have had knowledge of this “slowing” for a while because AAPL has been tanking for months during a rising or plateau stock market. All market darlings get kicked to the curb...eventually. The Cuppertino gangstas had a good run and should take their money and abscond to their favorite untaxed 3rd world paradise like Brazil or Myanmar
We've reached the commoditization stage of the smartphone and tablet markets. Prices all go down from here. It will be interesting to see if the Apple pony can learn a new trick without it's visionary. Not a good time to invest in Apple IMO.
I see you’ve adopted the John Dvorak method of industry analysis: Predict gloom and doom for Apple year after year and you’ll eventually be right if you live long enough.
Tell us again how the HP Touchpad is going to destroy the iPad.
We've reached the commoditization stage of the smartphone and tablet markets. Prices all go down from here. It will be interesting to see if the Apple pony can learn a new trick without it's visionary.
I agree on the commoditization
The Asian tigers have no choice but to compete all out (and invest all out) with Apple because Apple smartphones and Apple tablets are eating into the laptops and desktop markets and the cellphone markets. Laptops prices are down as the iPad eats into laptop markets same as laptops ate into desktop markets for years. Laptop margins are also down so they (Asians such as Samsung, LG) have to take on Apple in these two devices, tablets and smartphones, that Apple started entirely new markets in. I'll give Jobs and Apple credit for establishing these two markets
Anyone have a “units sold” number for the Surface vs. the iPad? I have been told by friends in retail that there is initial enthusiasm for the Surface, but when they realized how much it will cost to have laptop functionality and tablet functionality, people are walking.
When they have to cut out serving macrobiotic& vegetarian meals in the Apple cafeteria.... Then you will know AAPL is in real trouble but by then you will be bailing way too late
Don’t get married to any stock and (more importantly) don’t get married to Steve Jobs.
Answering my own question after reading some reports, it seems that as of the end of the year there were between 500,000 and 700,000 Surface tablets in use. Some reports have sales as high at 1,000,000 units. In the same quarter Apple reports 20,000,000 iPads sold, amongst speculation of slipping sales.
My retail reports have been confirmed - people have sticker shock over the cost of the surface. While it may have some functionality superiority over the iPad (on screen multitasking, for instance) those advantages do not seem to justify the considerably higher price of the “pro” version, which is the version most asked about. While the RT version is aimed at the iPad, customers seem to prefer the format and software availability of the iPad.
Bracing myself for more ADS (Apple Derangement Syndrome)
Any thoughts on where personal computing goes from here?
I've thought for a long time that we will get to a point where each person will have a "device" of some kind that is completely integrated into our lives. When you get to work, it will be the device you use for work. In that car, it will be the device that you use to navigate, listen to music, etc. It will be the device you use to shop, buy and pay for things. At home, it will provide you access to information, will be the pathway to your entertainment choices. On Sunday, you will get your sermon from it if you so choose. Etc.
If you want to go a little further into the future, this device will have a wireless man/machine interface. If you "think" a question, this device will go get the answer and communicate it to you telepathically. We aren't that far off. There are now robotic prosthesis that are controlled by thought.
In short; The Matrix. Question is,in a world this automated, what value can humans provide to earn a paycheck?
Skype works on all platforms. Office365 is a cross platform system. XBOX is being integrated.
It is pretty nifty to add a phone number to a contact on your Nokia and have it show up on your work computer and your wife's phone within seconds.
Any post that has Apple news in it always attracts Apple haters that brag about all the products they will buy before they would ever buy any Apple product.
I predict that Apple will not report a loss in profits today.
At least the article admits that the quarter about to be reported on is 13 weeks, as opposed to 14 weeks in the same quarter last year...
Mathematically - if Apple sold the same amount and had the same margin for those 13 weeks being reported - it will still “look” smaller - by 7% because of the one less week.
Iphone leadership is over. Not because Apple is inherently bad but, the cache of exclusivity has passed as other manufacturers deliver equally great features and in many cases surpassing Apple.
Samsung, for one, delivers a bigger screen, seeker case and features I’m sure others can enumerate but, for me those two features alone are why I bought Samsung.
I use my phone all day for business and pleasure and the bigger screen is just way easier on mu eyes.
Paritcularly so when I look at my mapping as I drive in an unfamiliar neighborhood or using websites that employ Flash. Apple hates Flash and it was demonstrated just last night when a friend tried use his iphone to play a rerun of Hawaii Five-0 through Apple TV.
You see he couldn’t find it on his phone but it showed just fine on mine, as well on my laptop.
Then we both recalled an interview in which Jobs pointedly said he hates Flash.
Guess that’s fine but Flash is cheaper to deploy than other technologies.
Bottom line is Iphone is a great tool bit there are now equally good tools available, if not better. But, saying one is better than another is usually a personal preference.
I recall when ATT Merlin was considered by many to be the best key system available. I never saw it that way as NEC and Nortel had better features.
Just my opinion.
That is what Apple has been gunning for for almost 6 years now - and what Microsoft finally saw as a necessary evolution.
Having spent some time around both "ecosystems", Windows on phone works ok (though not my "cup of tea). The same interface on a laptop/desktop is a nightmare. It's almost as if, while Apple has moved their OS and iOS towards a middle-ground, Microsoft's strategy was to move it all towards the mobile environment. Only time will tell if the public accepts it.
All over the world in more modest standard of living nations like Uruguay and India and Greece.... The smartFone of choice is an Android. People simply cannot afford iPhones. Android outsells iPhone when all nations are tallied. Android phone can be cheap, middle and luxurious cutting edge such as the (well named) Galaxy s3. Notice how the cheap bast##ds at Apple cannot compete with Samsung so they sic their lawyers on them
Apple's business model has never been about having the most market share (though they'll gladly take their 2/3 share of the tablet market) but of getting the best profits -- Apple gets about 75% of the worldwide smartphone profit, Samsung a little less than 25%, and everyone else a negligible amount.
Yep. I have the GII and will be upgrading to the III or note in a couple of weeks.
Instead of focusing on new features, what they need to focus on is how to get better battery life.
Apple has always had snob appeal. Kind of gay if you ask me, all that snarky snobby one-upsmanship. Obama should tax those Cupertino one percenters till they scream... raise their taxes through the roof to share the wealth so the po’ and minorities can get their free ObamaFones
The median estimate among all 65 analysts is for earnings of $14.20 on sales of $55.96 billion, up 10% and 30%, respectively. [emphasis mine]
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