I think the 5.5 inch will be the bigger launch or have more people switching back to iphone or whatever. I dont think any big android users are moving into a smaller iphone until the 5.5 is presented. I love droid but some people want the iphone also so that to me will be the real big even when the 5.5 happens.
The 4.7" is big enough. That supposed 5.5" is going to be a low seller in anywhere but the "Far East" as AI likes to put it. I'm thinking at the most 5-7% of iPhone 6 sales. Unless there is some compelling reason to it's size that Apple is holding close to the vest but that compelling size difference does not exist in the iPad line. I don't see this 5.5" iPhone 6 Pro (as has been rumored) gaining much traction.
Does anyone else see a lot of potential benefit in Apple buying FedEx? If Apple is able to tie it in to an online payment system, where Apple can easily set up payments and shipping for online merchants, it could be a really interesting move. Apple would also be able to use its fleet of delivery trucks and drivers to maintain accurate maps info, and possibly create a street view type function as well. It would be an enormous acquisition, but something that might give Apple a huge advantage in online shopping and work synergistically with online payments. I would love an Apple alternative to amazon, but maybe its just wishful thinking on my part.
Does anyone else see a lot of potential benefit in Apple buying FedEx? If Apple is able to tie it in to an online payment system, where Apple can easily set up payments and shipping for online merchants, it could be a really interesting move. Apple would also be able to use its fleet of delivery trucks and drivers to maintain accurate maps info, and possibly create a street view type function as well. It would be an enormous acquisition, but something that might give Apple a huge advantage in online shopping and work synergistically with online payments. I would love an Apple alternative to amazon, but maybe its just wishful thinking on my part.
Wouldn't pass regulatory approval most likely. Just as if Apple were to try to buy Time Warner or any other big company outside their native industry. Anything that can help Apple and hurt other companies will be seen as dangerous to the economic market. People would be so up in arms and analysts would not be able to validate AAPL's egregiously low P/E (Amazon's is over 800!). Then Samdung would try to buy UPS so the color of their trucks remind people of the same crap that they spew out of their mobility hole every month.
I wonder if everyone else gets a lower price for deployed shipments, and how much extra does Apple pay? Or do they lock it up early enough that there is no premium?
The music in this one isn’t very good, but there’s variety. At least this United States has land across the continent. I’m still looking for the big one, though.
Methinks you just need to clean your ears out. ????
I think the 5.5 inch will be the bigger launch or have more people switching back to iphone or whatever. I dont think any big android users are moving into a smaller iphone until the 5.5 is presented. I love droid but some people want the iphone also so that to me will be the real big even when the 5.5 happens.
The 4.7" is big enough. That supposed 5.5" is going to be a low seller in anywhere but the "Far East" as AI likes to put it. I'm thinking at the most 5-7% of iPhone 6 sales. Unless there is some compelling reason to it's size that Apple is holding close to the vest but that compelling size difference does not exist in the iPad line. I don't see this 5.5" iPhone 6 Pro (as has been rumored) gaining much traction.
In the USA, you may be correct, but in Asia, there may be a much different demand. Apple isn't like Samsung and just throwing shit out the door, hoping the market will accept it. You really need to think beyond your own back door in Podunk Nowhere, USA.
In the USA, you may be correct, but in Asia, there may be a much different demand. Apple isn't like Samsung and just throwing shit out the door, hoping the market will accept it. You really need to think beyond your own back door in Podunk Nowhere, USA.
So why are the large phones selling poorly worldwide, then?
Does anyone else see a lot of potential benefit in Apple buying FedEx? If Apple is able to tie it in to an online payment system, where Apple can easily set up payments and shipping for online merchants, it could be a really interesting move. Apple would also be able to use its fleet of delivery trucks and drivers to maintain accurate maps info, and possibly create a street view type function as well. It would be an enormous acquisition, but something that might give Apple a huge advantage in online shopping and work synergistically with online payments. I would love an Apple alternative to amazon, but maybe its just wishful thinking on my part.
You bring up some interesting points, but Apple is unlikely to enter any industries that are so peripheral to their main focus: Superior HW and SW.
Furthermore, Apple is a money making company... why would they want to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, a money losing company? That's a game where you lose if you win.
In the USA, you may be correct, but in Asia, there may be a much different demand. Apple isn't like Samsung and just throwing shit out the door, hoping the market will accept it. You really need to think beyond your own back door in Podunk Nowhere, USA.
So why are the large phones selling poorly worldwide, then?
For Apple, it appears to not be the case in Japan, and it's projected to not be the case in China. Different strokes for the little folks.
50.000.000 units (over a quarter) = 10.000 containers
How many containers on a panamax? 5000?
You need 2 panamaxes to ship a quarters volume.
And someone trying to say that there isn't enough shipping capacity?
There is no way Apple would load up an entire cargo ship with their products. For starters they need to transit product to more than just two locations. Also container ships do occasionally sink and that loss would represent an unacceptably catastrophic risk for the company. Even if they had insurance to covered costs the cost to the brand in botching a release would be immense.
It's more likely that 70%+ of the cargo is reserved for even more regular commoditized freight like food/automobiles etc. and that during a specific launch window Apple paid for the privilege of vaccuuming up the margin of uncommitted capacity on top of this, thus displacing other companies from the manifest.
I don't get how Apple can buy up all the shipping containers. Those cargo ships can hold so many Apple products. It seems impossible for Apple to keep others from using them. I wonder if anyone will bite.
In the USA, you may be correct, but in Asia, there may be a much different demand. Apple isn't like Samsung and just throwing shit out the door, hoping the market will accept it. You really need to think beyond your own back door in Podunk Nowhere, USA.
I said anywhere BUT the Far East i.e. Asia. As in I did think beyond my back door of the US. Did you not see that in my post?
And I live in the one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Far from Nowhere.
There is no way Apple would load up an entire cargo ship with their products. For starters they need to transit product to more than just two locations. Also container ships do occasionally sink and that loss would represent an unacceptably catastrophic risk for the company.
Yeah, I was thinking about that catastrophic risk, too. Until we were reminded (over and over) that Apple moves cargo by air. And it's not like airplanes ever disappear unexpectedly.
You bring up some interesting points, but Apple is unlikely to enter any industries that are so peripheral to their main focus: Superior HW and SW.
Furthermore, Apple is a money making company... why would they want to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, a money losing company? That's a game where you lose if you win.
Yeah, I guess it's a bit of a stretch. I hope that at least Apple is considering negotiating with the shipping companies for a shipping service that they could incorporate with payments for online merchants, with competitive shipping rates and improved tracking for all purchases made with EasyPay (or whatever it's going to be called). That way it could be a self contained service, just click "Finalize Order" and then scan finger with touch ID, that's it, then your default card/account is charged and default shipping address is used, with tracking updates automatically initiated.
I don't get how Apple can buy up all the shipping containers. Those cargo ships can hold so many Apple products. It seems impossible for Apple to keep others from using them. I wonder if anyone will bite.
NEWSFLASH: Apple use airfreight, not shipping.
I think it might have been mentioned once or twice. ????
There is no way Apple would load up an entire cargo ship with their products. For starters they need to transit product to more than just two locations. Also container ships do occasionally sink and that loss would represent an unacceptably catastrophic risk for the company.
Yeah, I was thinking about that catastrophic risk, too. Until we were reminded (over and over) that Apple moves cargo by air. And it's not like airplanes ever disappear unexpectedly.
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Why, when 90% of people don’t buy phones that large?
Th... uh... I don’t know how to process it when it comes from that side...
Does anyone else see a lot of potential benefit in Apple buying FedEx? If Apple is able to tie it in to an online payment system, where Apple can easily set up payments and shipping for online merchants, it could be a really interesting move. Apple would also be able to use its fleet of delivery trucks and drivers to maintain accurate maps info, and possibly create a street view type function as well. It would be an enormous acquisition, but something that might give Apple a huge advantage in online shopping and work synergistically with online payments. I would love an Apple alternative to amazon, but maybe its just wishful thinking on my part.
A story about delayed manufacturing that explicitly ISN’T Apple? I shifted dimensions again, didn’t I…
I should try that some time, shifting dimensions.
You already have, tomorrow.
The music in this one isn’t very good, but there’s variety. At least this United States has land across the continent. I’m still looking for the big one, though.
Methinks you just need to clean your ears out. ????
What idiotic article is this?
How many iPhones get in 1 45'' container? 5.000?
50.000.000 units (over a quarter) = 10.000 containers
How many containers on a panamax? 5000?
You need 2 panamaxes to ship a quarters volume.
And someone trying to say that there isn't enough shipping capacity?
Apple use air freight, not shipping.
Just for you Solip. ????
In the USA, you may be correct, but in Asia, there may be a much different demand. Apple isn't like Samsung and just throwing shit out the door, hoping the market will accept it. You really need to think beyond your own back door in Podunk Nowhere, USA.
So why are the large phones selling poorly worldwide, then?
You bring up some interesting points, but Apple is unlikely to enter any industries that are so peripheral to their main focus: Superior HW and SW.
Furthermore, Apple is a money making company... why would they want to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, a money losing company? That's a game where you lose if you win.
For Apple, it appears to not be the case in Japan, and it's projected to not be the case in China. Different strokes for the little folks.
What idiotic article is this?
How many iPhones get in 1 45'' container? 5.000?
50.000.000 units (over a quarter) = 10.000 containers
How many containers on a panamax? 5000?
You need 2 panamaxes to ship a quarters volume.
And someone trying to say that there isn't enough shipping capacity?
There is no way Apple would load up an entire cargo ship with their products. For starters they need to transit product to more than just two locations. Also container ships do occasionally sink and that loss would represent an unacceptably catastrophic risk for the company. Even if they had insurance to covered costs the cost to the brand in botching a release would be immense.
It's more likely that 70%+ of the cargo is reserved for even more regular commoditized freight like food/automobiles etc. and that during a specific launch window Apple paid for the privilege of vaccuuming up the margin of uncommitted capacity on top of this, thus displacing other companies from the manifest.
Thanks.
And I live in the one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Far from Nowhere.
There is no way Apple would load up an entire cargo ship with their products. For starters they need to transit product to more than just two locations. Also container ships do occasionally sink and that loss would represent an unacceptably catastrophic risk for the company.
Yeah, I was thinking about that catastrophic risk, too. Until we were reminded (over and over) that Apple moves cargo by air. And it's not like airplanes ever disappear unexpectedly.
*cough* (Malaysia) *cough*
I know some folks who could really use iWatches:
You bring up some interesting points, but Apple is unlikely to enter any industries that are so peripheral to their main focus: Superior HW and SW.
Furthermore, Apple is a money making company... why would they want to go toe-to-toe with Amazon, a money losing company? That's a game where you lose if you win.
Yeah, I guess it's a bit of a stretch. I hope that at least Apple is considering negotiating with the shipping companies for a shipping service that they could incorporate with payments for online merchants, with competitive shipping rates and improved tracking for all purchases made with EasyPay (or whatever it's going to be called). That way it could be a self contained service, just click "Finalize Order" and then scan finger with touch ID, that's it, then your default card/account is charged and default shipping address is used, with tracking updates automatically initiated.
NEWSFLASH: Apple use airfreight, not shipping.
I think it might have been mentioned once or twice. ????
Looks to me like they could use a bath.