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iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by rqebmm »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #46
rqebmm wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me its real problem is that it's almost indistinct from long-press. Combine that with Apple's poor UX discoverability (I'm looking at you, swipe-from-the-side-to-see-iMessage-timestamps!) and 3D Touch is basically useless.

>> "To me its real problem is that it's almost indistinct from long-press." Are you saying this as someone who actually uses the feature? Because in my experience a long press and 3D are very distinct. In fact 3D touch makes it quite difficult to long press on home screen icons to delete them.

I meant as a UX design pattern.

Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by petra »

Shivetya wrote: post #7
revelation wrote: post #5

Are we past peak-smartphone or is this just noise from model release schedules? It took PCs 20+ years to get good enough, smartphones managed the same in much less than 10 it seems.

yet for the most part PCs dropped significantly in price but smartphones seem to be holding the 400+ range which is still woefully overpriced for most of the phone buying populace because not only are you putting out 400 bucks but usually under obligation to send forty to eighty more a month. That is a good chunk of the the lower and middle classes.

Phones are a status symbol, in many cases, which shifts the sale price. PC's much less so.

Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by cududa »

fla wrote: post #30
c-slice wrote: post #22

I think we just reached peak smartphone. What's next?

Gaming console ?

Funny enough, most VR projection models use gaming consoles as the low point of estimating units a few years from now.

I want to bet on sunglass sized AR, but it seems like we'll need some material science revolutions to shrink down the requisite hardware to have the kind of useful experience is imagine

Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by rdtsc »

JamilD wrote: post #3

The expectation was $2.00 EPS, Apple reported $1.90. AAPL is down in after-hours trading right now, at 95.91 from 104.35 at market close (as of 5:20 PM). This is a significant earnings report as it's the first to break 13 years of continuous growth. Revenue was down 13%. • Q2 EPS: $1.90, down 22% YoY, versus expectations of $1.99 • Q2 revenue: $50.6 billion, down 13% YoY, versus expectations of $52 billion • Gross ma…

> AAPL is essentially in freefall right now, down from 104.35 at market close (~97.00 around 5 PM).

It looks like it is just going back to where it was in Feb? (90 or so). I guess if it keeps heading down below that it would be alarming.

Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by swalsh »

c-slice wrote: post #22

I think we just reached peak smartphone. What's next?

VAR - Virtual/Augmented Reality.

Also, i'm hoping my future glasses have some kind of mechanism built in that will let me text with my mind... even if that means thinking about moving shapes or colors or something to do it.

Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by ktRolster »

venomsnake wrote: post #11
Shivetya wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yet for the most part PCs dropped significantly in price but smartphones seem to be holding the 400+ range which is still woefully overpriced for most of the phone buying populace because not only are you putting out 400 bucks but usually under obligation to send forty to eighty more a month. That is a good chunk of the the lower and middle classes.

The PC have not dropped significantly in price. High end gaming PC (that you build yourself) always costed about 1500-2000$. It is just that the majority of tasks could be done in lower and lower segments of the market.

High end gaming PC (that you build yourself) always costed about 1500-2000$

In real terms, that means the cost of a PC has been reduced quite a bit (because of inflation: http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=10... )

Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

FreedomToCreate wrote: post #10

So anyone thinking planned obsolesce might move itself up the Apple priority list? Their per quarter revenue is still massive, but Wall Street always expects more. At its current rate of stock buy back, Apple could buy back all of its stocks and go private in a few years. They could rid themselves of market fluctuations in regard to stock and pump out products while continuing making the ridiculous amounts or revenue…

They could, and that may be the plan.

But ultimately it's about impressing customers, not Wall St. And Apple has been getting less and less good at creating products that do that.

Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by [deleted] »

usaphp wrote: post #35
ericabiz wrote: post #4

I run a repair shop. We've repaired over 3,000 Apple devices for customers. We are always chatting with our customers, so we get a ton of feedback from them about what they're doing with their phones. We hear a few things consistently: 1) Providers have switched from "free upgrades every 2 years" to a plan cost and a monthly phone cost, so people now really know how much their phone costs--and many would rather save…

aren't your customers a pretty small niche compared to the most of the Apple users in the US? Most of the people will go to apple store if they need a fix for their device instead of going to a local repair shop which will void their warranty. So the argument about people wanting/or not to upgrade to a new device a pretty subjective to your specific customer type, no? > "I recommend buying a refurbished 6 over any of…

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Re: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

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Post by ericabiz »

uptown wrote: post #29
ericabiz wrote: post #4

I run a repair shop. We've repaired over 3,000 Apple devices for customers. We are always chatting with our customers, so we get a ton of feedback from them about what they're doing with their phones. We hear a few things consistently: 1) Providers have switched from "free upgrades every 2 years" to a plan cost and a monthly phone cost, so people now really know how much their phone costs--and many would rather save…

What's an iPad Air screen repair cost?

iPad Air 1 is $120 to fix; newer ones are $260. The reason for the jump is that Apple moved to bonded technology (backlight, LCD, digitizer, glass is all one piece bonded from the factory) in the newer iPad Airs, so the parts are more expensive. The older iPads have separate glass/digitizer and LCD/backlight.

Feel free to email me if you want more info--my contact info is in my profile.

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