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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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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.

And you'd likely see a fork with support of the major handset makers and companies like Amazon. Google has a lot of control thru Play Services, but something that hostile would be a recipe for a split.

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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.

Mobile is maturing and consumer upgrade cycles are starting to slow down because of it.

So yes, I would say we are at the end of an era.

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

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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.

Where are you getting that impression? My understanding that was both the iPhone 7 and new MacBooks were the fastest-selling models of their respective product lines that Apple had ever released?

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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…

Also, phones like the Pixel (which i hear many are having issues with tho) have the Google Assistant built in.

Siri which i have used since 2011 is junk comparably. For me having the best AI assistant on my phone is as important having the best camera. Such makes life a lot easier!

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

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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??

The removed it because it was a proprietary port and felt that the market was better served in the long term by eliminating this kind of special case. I like MagSafe, but it's not really that big a deal.

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

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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

Better screen, better camera, better external speakers, added waterproofing, and faster. I'm not sure what people were expecting when they say nothing has changed.

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

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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.

It's the end if you still refuse to buy anything but Apple products. Check out new devices outside the Apple store. VR, IoT's galore, and look at all the things you can do with raspberry pi these days.

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

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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.

I don't think it's either - what indicates we are at the "end of an era"? We've only had practical smartphones for about 10 years, which is an astonishingly short time!

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

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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 wonder if, and if then how much, sales of MacBook pros are corellated to sales of iPhones. I suspect the correlation exists and it's stronger than we'd think.

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

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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…

As a counter to just one of your points, you can also run apps concurrently on iOS, in fact you can have them side-by-side, and for audio apps, multiple separate apps can generate synthesizers and other music simultaneously while another app mixes and records them. It's pretty neat stuff.

Can you link to a guide, YT video or something? I've never seen it in action. I just see a lot of my apps only get active when they are the front app. Side by side mixing and and generating sounds like the same direction I want to go when using a modern smart phone.
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