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.
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.
Apple's stuff just works (mostly) - but at this point any iPhone that's come out since the 5S does the its job pretty well (mail, navigation, social media, browsing & gaming.) Apple has let off the gas pedal. It's far from dead, but I don't see myself upgrading my iPhone X for several years because there's nothing on the horizon that would make me shell out $1000+. A foldable phone? No thanks, I have a tablet for that. Augmented reality? Another gimmick like 3D Touch, etc.
Exactly. The smartphone market has matured. The tablet market is maturing, but still has a ways to go. The laptop market has matured now that processors aren't getting appreciably faster anymore. Heretofore everything in computing has been about specs, but now that Moore's Law has taken a hiatus it's becoming more about fashion now.
The news of my death has been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain
The end of Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Bitcoin etc but for every startup that grows, they spend 40% of their revenues in ads on Ms/fb/Amazon
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?
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
Smart phone industry will soon enter its adolescent and will show the sign of maturity. Also, smart phones became (or sold as) fashion device compared to computing devices (like computers, laptops etc) in previous decade, which were more like utility. Fashion changes every year, utility does not; may be the market is getting to that maturity too.
People bitching about their laptops, about how expensive their pocket computers are, about ports, about thin clam shell form factors, about ports, about dongles, is really just cabin fever.
People are whining, because they want The Future again. They want to feel futuristic, like they want the 2019 fall fashion line up to be glamorous.
That’s it. That’s all this is.
We’ve dumped A LOT of radical change into the primordial tech soup, and the soup got so hot and spicy that Donald Trump won a presidential election.
Okay? You see what fast moving change gets you? Weird shit starts to come out of nowhere.
So just fucking cool it.
AI? Autonomous cars? Just how bad do you think things will be, if that stuff blows up in our face?
Yeah. Just buy your extra dongles and shut the fuck up.
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.
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.
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.
"much bigger scale"
Apple's stuff just works (mostly) - but at this point any iPhone that's come out since the 5S does the its job pretty well (mail, navigation, social media, browsing & gaming.) Apple has let off the gas pedal. It's far from dead, but I don't see myself upgrading my iPhone X for several years because there's nothing on the horizon that would make me shell out $1000+. A foldable phone? No thanks, I have a tablet for that. Augmented reality? Another gimmick like 3D Touch, etc.
Exactly. The smartphone market has matured. The tablet market is maturing, but still has a ways to go. The laptop market has matured now that processors aren't getting appreciably faster anymore. Heretofore everything in computing has been about specs, but now that Moore's Law has taken a hiatus it's becoming more about fashion now.
The news of my death has been greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain
The end of Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Bitcoin etc but for every startup that grows, they spend 40% of their revenues in ads on Ms/fb/Amazon
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?
$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
Smart phone industry will soon enter its adolescent and will show the sign of maturity. Also, smart phones became (or sold as) fashion device compared to computing devices (like computers, laptops etc) in previous decade, which were more like utility. Fashion changes every year, utility does not; may be the market is getting to that maturity too.
Symbian was crap and Windows Phone fell really short. On the other hand, iOS is arguably good. Also, Nokia was very, very mismanaged.
Bleh. This is just punditry.
People bitching about their laptops, about how expensive their pocket computers are, about ports, about thin clam shell form factors, about ports, about dongles, is really just cabin fever.
People are whining, because they want The Future again. They want to feel futuristic, like they want the 2019 fall fashion line up to be glamorous.
That’s it. That’s all this is.
We’ve dumped A LOT of radical change into the primordial tech soup, and the soup got so hot and spicy that Donald Trump won a presidential election.
Okay? You see what fast moving change gets you? Weird shit starts to come out of nowhere.
So just fucking cool it.
AI? Autonomous cars? Just how bad do you think things will be, if that stuff blows up in our face?
Yeah. Just buy your extra dongles and shut the fuck up.
My iPhone cost $750. Come on.