Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?

Whatever. Apple makes 35 billion instead of the expected 37 billion in a non-holiday quarter - sooo disappointing! They must really be losing their way.

All things of course come to an end, but does 35 billion worth of revenue in a quarter signal Cupertino's imminent demise? I mean come on, how many consumer companies can say they've sold 35 billion dollars worth of anything?

IMHO, Apple's downfall will come from growing and expanding too much, not too little.

Re: Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?

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Post by jerf » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 1:39 AM UTC

myprasanna wrote: post #2

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Re: Is Apple Losing Its Shine After Steve Jobs?

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Post by Zenst » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 1:39 AM UTC

Ask this question in two years time once the projects Jobs was apart of have run there course.

But personaly I see no shine lost, sure they lost a great man but there again he had more than enough time to leave his legacy inplace and that is exactly what he did. If jobs was still about I'd expect the share price to be exactly the same and with that the public have already answeared this question that need not be asked.

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Post by nirvana » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 1:59 AM UTC

People have been saying that Apple was going down, in my experience, since 1981 with the introduction of the IBM PC.

Seriously, in the 1980s it was IBM, Commodore, Tandy, et al. In the 1990s it was Windows. In the past decade every two-bit media player was called an iPod killer. Every phone ripping off the iPhone is called an iPhone killer. Every tablet is called an iPad killer.

And of course the myth has been spread that anything Apple does well is just the result of Steve Jobs.

Just as everyone who buys Apple products does so because they come under Steve Jobs "reality distortion field".

And how everything Apple has been doing in the past 5 years was poor because Steve Jobs health was bad.

How about that the iPod sucked becuase it didn't have an FM tuner?

Or the iPhone is never going to fly without a physical keyboard.

Or the iPad sounds like a woman's product and nobody will buy it, and of course nobody will carry it around.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Apple is failing, always has been, and always will be.

Every time the stock goes down $30 (equivalent to a $60 stock going down $3) the stock is crashing.

When Apple misses wall street expectations by a few cents (but beats their projections) its a sign that the stock is in decline - before Steve Jobs died it was just proof that Apple sucked. When he was sick, it was because he lost control. Now that he's dead, Apple will never be able to accomplish anything good.

It has been 30 years of this crap.

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Post by LaSombra » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 2:00 AM UTC

Apple adding HDMI and reverting the Apple TV UI, to me, are already signs of that. What's next? Blu-ray?

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Post by hjkl » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 2:01 AM UTC

Can Apple do anything other than lose its shine? Is it possible for it to get shinier? I mean, it already has the world's highest market cap and is revered in a way the subsequent next highest market cap companies aren't (Exxon, MS, Wal-mart).

It's like a basketball player who makes 100 free throws in a row, misses a couple, and people wonder what the hell happened to him/her.

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Post by jasonkolb » Sat, Aug 04, 2012, 2:05 AM UTC

They haven't had a product that people lust after in a long time. In fact, with other tablets now viable competitors, I'd say their laptops are their most lust-inducing product out there.

I just don't know how they can regain that level of desirability without disrupting another vertical. Or if they make some truly radical hardware innovations, such that it is visible and will make it obvious that you are using an Apple product and not a Samsung. The touchscreen iPhone with gestures and a full browser was a device like that, but that gap has long since been closed by other manufacturers. Siri was, I think, an attempt to do that again, but it wasn't quite ready--something that almost makes me think that Jobs knew he had to pull something out of his hat immediately, even at the cost of shelving his famous perfectionism.