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Re: End of Apple

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Post by wflann » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 10:40 PM UTC

leoh wrote: post #5

thallavajhula wrote: post #4

5 months ago: [ https://www.forbes.com/sites/dantedisparte/2018/08/06/apple-... 1 day ago: [ https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2019/01/21/the-... It seems a bit ridiculous how, in a span of 5 months, Forbes decided to publish an article about the "End" of the most valuable company in the world.

Build them up, tear them down. Same thing happened to Theranos, but on a much bigger scale.

I don't think Apple's been credibly accused of committing massive fraud?

Re: End of Apple

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Post by PHGamer » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 10:46 PM UTC

it wont be but i hope they hurt. they used to be the company that produced a great product at a slight markup. Their markups have gotten ridiculous. Also their pushing of design into absurd territory where laptops got more dongles on it than a spider has legs. Its like really , thats the most elegant thing you could come up with?

Re: End of Apple

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Post by armadsen » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 10:49 PM UTC

wflann wrote: post #11

leoh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Build them up, tear them down. Same thing happened to Theranos, but on a much bigger scale.

I don't think Apple's been credibly accused of committing massive fraud?

Yeah, this is ridiculous. Apple has been selling actual products that work and that billions of people happily use for 43 years. Hard to compare that with a company that never released anything that actually worked the way they claimed, and was revealed to be committing outright fraud.

Re: End of Apple

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Post by ejrowley » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:04 PM UTC

The cell phone market has matured, the rate of innovation has slowed and the need to update your phone at every release has subsided. Apple has recognised this, they have better long term support for their phones then any other manufacturer that I can think of. As an example I have given my son an old iPhone 5S that my wife got in 2014, it had been sat in a draw for a couple of years but a good charge and an update has made it like new, it is running the latest iOS like a champ. Apple is taking a hit on sales because it is making an effort to support it's products long term. Now for me as the consumer I'm prepared to pay a premium for my phone because I know it will last 3+ years.

Re: End of Apple

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Post by pricesEhhh9 » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:45 PM UTC

$199 + contract with carrier

The monthly service charges being inflated to pay off the difference

All stocks have tanked in the last few months

Some cherry picked facts to peddle a narrative

There isn’t a year that goes by without some reliability flaw being found in hardware or software for all the vendors

What’s dying is the inflated emotional love affair with Apple. Jobs launched a few stinkers with glaring defects, but people overlooked it due to their dying love affair with Microsoft after XP worms and other security issues

Apple will still make oodles of money and people will still buy in enough to justify their prices

Re: End of Apple

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Post by opencl » Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 1:23 AM UTC

thallavajhula wrote: post #4

5 months ago: [ https://www.forbes.com/sites/dantedisparte/2018/08/06/apple-... 1 day ago: [ https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2019/01/21/the-... It seems a bit ridiculous how, in a span of 5 months, Forbes decided to publish an article about the "End" of the most valuable company in the world.

Those are not Forbes articles, they are random people's personal blogs hosted on the Forbes domain.

Re: End of Apple

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Post by leoh » Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 6:03 AM UTC

armadsen wrote: post #13

wflann wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think Apple's been credibly accused of committing massive fraud?

Yeah, this is ridiculous. Apple has been selling actual products that work and that billions of people happily use for 43 years. Hard to compare that with a company that never released anything that actually worked the way they claimed, and was revealed to be committing outright fraud.

"much bigger scale"