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Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by freehunter »

erikb wrote: post #8

I have an iPhone 6S since its first month. Just thought, you know, test it once. But I always look jealously at my friends who run Android phones for half the price. You can just do more with Androids, it's more efficient, the keyboard is more efficient, apps can run concurrently, and to my surprise even the cameras seem to be way better. Besides the brand I really don't know what reason there is to buy iPhones. So t…

Everyone has their own opinion and that's fine, but saying Android is more efficient than iOS just is demonstrably untrue that I'm not entirely convinced you typed that with a straight face. There's also only one phone that has a camera as good as the iPhone, and that's the newly released Pixel. Every other camera falls short in independent testing.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by narrator »

Are we at the end of an era computing wise or is it just Apple? I wonder if computing technologies great transformation of our society is coming to an end. I also thought this in about 1993 and then again in the mid 2000s, so I'm probably wrong again. Maybe AI will be the new killer app that drives the next wave of upgrades.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by fuayenah »

nopreserveroot wrote: post #9
cft wrote: post #5

Bad news for smaller app developers: when Android becomes monopoly, apps will be pulled left and right from Google Play.

For what reason? I would wager that 3rd party stores would gain popularity should that happen.

If that happened, Google would stop letting you install those.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by shmerl »

narrator wrote: post #12

Are we at the end of an era computing wise or is it just Apple? I wonder if computing technologies great transformation of our society is coming to an end. I also thought this in about 1993 and then again in the mid 2000s, so I'm probably wrong again. Maybe AI will be the new killer app that drives the next wave of upgrades.

No, there is simply more competition today, and market balances things out. Also, Apple grew too comfortable and stopped pushing forward. It was only a matter of time for this to happen.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by jodrellblank »

erikb wrote: post #8

I have an iPhone 6S since its first month. Just thought, you know, test it once. But I always look jealously at my friends who run Android phones for half the price. You can just do more with Androids, it's more efficient, the keyboard is more efficient, apps can run concurrently, and to my surprise even the cameras seem to be way better. Besides the brand I really don't know what reason there is to buy iPhones. So t…

it's more efficient,

It would need to be to run on the slower processors available to non-Apple companies.

You can just do more with Androids

What more, specifically?

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by arkitaip »

fuayenah wrote: post #13
nopreserveroot wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what reason? I would wager that 3rd party stores would gain popularity should that happen.

If that happened, Google would stop letting you install those.

They would be sued so hard and fast that they would travel back in time to register the original googol domain.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by lvspiff »

For someone who waited nearly a month to get my iphone7 (as an upgrade from a galaxy s3) due to inventory being unavailable I'm going WTF - sluggish sales? then why did i have to wait so long? But then at the same time I compare my iphone 7 to friends iphone 6S models and realize...oh the only difference is the headphone jack if you dont do x,y,z...no wonder they aren't selling too many

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by cracell »

itg wrote: post #7

The numbers coming out of Apple next quarter will be interesting. iPhone 7 has been underwhelming and reception to the latest MacBooks Pros has been mostly negative. And if sales are on a downhill trajectory, I wonder what the response inside of Apple will be.

I hope the market punishes them for removing the ports we regularly use from the MacBook Pro so when I'm ready to buy a new one in a few years they have brought them back.

In particular the removal of the magsafe power connector is maddening. By far my favorite feature of Macbooks and they removed it because??

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