Okay so...my class is doing the test now but ms.james just send me a email saying that we not suppose to do the test so...do i stop my kids and just do some other work or do i just let them finish the test and then not put it in the grade book but just put it in for credit work space,what do i do im so....lost rn help me plz
iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
More likely mobile is headed quietly down the path of the PC - fewer generational improvements means people keep devices longer and there isn't as much of a reason to buy new hardware so sales flatline. Great business still but Wall Street hates that narrative. They want the next hot growth market -- VR perhaps when its killer app moment arrives.
I'll say this: Amazon Echo cut Apple's growth balls right off. That's a $2b revenue business Siri can kiss goodbye.
Apple has no one to blame but themselves (history may be rhyming here) if they lose that market. Apple had many, many quarters where they sat on Siri and did not open it up to developers via an API, and could have killed Echo in the cradle.
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Um, what? You can order whatever color you would like: http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone6s
When we need a device, we just walk into the store. We don't order online and wait around. To be fair, it was ATT & Best Buy where I ran into the limited colors, but that doesn't change the validity of my experience.
It doesn't change your experience but it might change the applicability - it could just as easily be an indicator of ATT & Best Buy's inventory policy.
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#214I 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.
VR is still about 10 years away before it moves into the mainstream. Currently it's just looking like a gaming accessory and has a long way to go before it's much more
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#215It probably doesn't help that the subsidy model has completely changed. But personally, I think iPhone performance has hit a point where one doesn't really feel the need to upgrade right away. I was so ready to upgrade when the contract on my 4 expired. It was really a pain to use after a couple of years. But my 5S has now lasted me two and a half years and other than wishing I had more storage capacity, there's real…
I have an iPhone 5 (not S) and the performance is starting to get on the frustrating side. But it's only now getting to the point where that is an issue.
Maybe you should wipe it? I have a 5 that I bought the year the 5s came out, and it works great, still
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In Australia you always had to disclose the phone cost in a contract. People still keep upgrading phones.
Does it show as a line item on the monthly invoice, or in the fine print of the contract? Here in QC/Canada it's basically "90$/month for the 2 year upgrade" or "65$/month for BYOD".
Line item on the invoice, plus a non-fine print part on the contract and any advertising material.
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#217I 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…
3D Force Touch was one of those features I feel would have only caught on, if it was one of the original iPhone features. Tacking it on later, with little to no support in apps, makes it forgetware. I actually really like the functionality, and I completely forget it exists. There needs to be some type of small indicator reminder that a button HAS 3D touch.
The best 3D touch feature is the trackpad keyboard. It's also very not discoverable (who thinks to force touch the keyboard?)
Having said that, 3D touch is far from the only improvement on the 6S. If it didn't have 3D touch I'd still recommend the extra $100 to get MUCH better internals (processor, cameras, touch ID sensor) and a stronger body too.
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There is something fundamentally wrong with our system that "growth" is used as the main metric for assessing business success. It's growth for the sake of growth (and more $), and not deploying business to solve hard customer problems and to make the world a little bit better.
hm, there is a valid criticism to be had but "wrong" isn't the word I would use. there isn't anything wrong with Apple's stock selling off violently, as much as there was anything wrong with people bidding the shares up so high under the idea of selling it to someone else at a higher price. there are plenty of companies that are content with steady or even cyclical growth/earnings. in many other countries were local…
The high growth of the stock market has largely diverged from the rest of the US so that it hardly reflects the "real world" in any way.
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#219Appointing process optimizer Tim Cook was the biggest mistake of Steve Jobs
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Why do you think the era is over? Are people buying less cellphones and laptops?
The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones. Isn't google still not a search company, but its moved past its 'search' era and now its focus on other things. Apple will always sell hardware, but it needs to orient to its next phase of growth, and that ain't hardware.
Google hasn't moved past anything - almost all of its money comes from search still. Everything else is just 'bets' none of which have paid off.
Apple makes bets too - they just aren't public.