[SunkenCiv]

Oh, btw, no, iPhone sales *haven’t* declined, they’ve increased. The overall smartphone market has grown, so percent of the market has declined per se, and thanks to competition profit margins have declined a bit, but the iPhone is still enormous, users still stand in line for upgrades, and the used market for iPhones is strong. Wow, what a terrible problem to have.

[adorno]

Oh, btw, no, iPhone sales *haven’t* declined, they’ve increased.

The combo of iPads and iPhones, which is iOS, has declined, and iPhones, while still selling well, are no longer the biggest seller in the market, and even WP8 smartphones are setting up to surpass iPHone sales within the next year or two. Once the hype and coolness factors wears off (and there are many indications that that has already happened), Apple sales and stock will be in deep doo-doo. Apple could easily become the next Palm, but perhaps they'll survive to become the next HTC.

[zeugma]

and the used market for iPhones is strong.

That is an interesting problem for a corporation to have. Thier previous offerings are so strong that they actually compete with current ones.  In our household it works in a kind of funny way. Wife really likes ithingies, with lesser enthusiasm by MIL and myself. So when WifeofZeugma is ready to upgrade, everyone else gets the hand-me-downs. Currently, she has a 5, MIL has a 4s and I have a 4.

I think it's amazing that the products are so strong that the previous products work just fine all the way down the line. When WoZ upgrades, I'll probably still be able to get a few bucks for the 4 I'm using now.