ericthehalfbee

rogifan_new said:

fastasleep said:

rogifan_new said:

Hate to say it but this tweet is spot on. Probably not a good idea for Cook to partially blame slow iPhone sales on cheaper battery replacements.

Josh Centers (@jcenters) 1/2/19, 5:20 PM If a $29 battery slows down iPhone sales, then either people were only buying new iPhones because their old ones were getting slower or Apple isn’t producing interesting iPhones.

Bullshit. "only"? Not interesting? Give me a break. You're just excited because so many of these armchair analysts are feeding into your Chicken Little confirmation bias. 

Hate on me all you want. The fact is many here were saying nothing to see here everything is fine when we now know that’s not the case.

Wrong. What people have always been saying (and with very good reason) is that these analysts can't be trusted. They've never been right before, yet they still trot out their predictions of reduced sales over and over. So when an analyst makes yet ANOTHER prediction, why should anyone take their word?

What's funny (and rather pathetic) is people pretending they saw this coming. And then justifying their belief with all sorts of made-up theories. As if it's easy/simple to predict Apples future performance.

sirlance99 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

sirlance99 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

avon b7 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

rogifan_new said:

So are all the people who shit on anybody here who speculated iPhone sales might be soft going to apologize now? It was patently obvious once Apple started heavily pushing the trade-in program and displaying cheaper prices on apple.com homepage that there was an issue with sales.

Not for a minute.

Should someone who's wrong 24 quarters in a row (all the analysts and the idiots who believe them) that now finds their prediction come true one single time suddenly be praised for their insight? Or did they just get lucky after repeating the same tripe over and over to the point where one day they were finally correct?

We all know it's the latter.

Of course, you could have simply accepted a differing opinion and countered with your own reasoned input instead of jumping on posters and labelling them as trolls, shills, idiots and what not. There is no 'getting lucky' here. Price ceilings exist. You have one. I have one. Most of us do. If prices increase in a saturated market and Apple hasn't pushed the envelope on a tech level, something is likely to give. With iPhone, it just gave.

We're focusing on iPhone mainly here and rightly so.

If you don't call being right one time only a lucky guess, then what do you call it?

And what do you call being wrong 24+ times? Bad luck? Oh wait, you said luck isn't involved. So being wrong for years and years is what, incompetence?

You’re such a troll! Go stand in the corner and think about your actions. 

Ahhhh, did I upset you with facts?

Not at all. There’s always people like you that root for the team they love no matter what. Apple could kill thousands of people and you’d still defend them no matter what. Just tired of you trying to bully people hear that have a different opinion than you do. You are an ass and I’m calling you out on that. 

Liar. I simply tell the truth. If Apple does something wrong I'll say so.

Trolls just hate it when you call them on their lies over and over. Which probably explains why you're so upset.

sirlance99 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

avon b7 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

rogifan_new said:

So are all the people who shit on anybody here who speculated iPhone sales might be soft going to apologize now? It was patently obvious once Apple started heavily pushing the trade-in program and displaying cheaper prices on apple.com homepage that there was an issue with sales.

Not for a minute.

Should someone who's wrong 24 quarters in a row (all the analysts and the idiots who believe them) that now finds their prediction come true one single time suddenly be praised for their insight? Or did they just get lucky after repeating the same tripe over and over to the point where one day they were finally correct?

We all know it's the latter.

Of course, you could have simply accepted a differing opinion and countered with your own reasoned input instead of jumping on posters and labelling them as trolls, shills, idiots and what not. There is no 'getting lucky' here. Price ceilings exist. You have one. I have one. Most of us do. If prices increase in a saturated market and Apple hasn't pushed the envelope on a tech level, something is likely to give. With iPhone, it just gave.

We're focusing on iPhone mainly here and rightly so.

If you don't call being right one time only a lucky guess, then what do you call it?

And what do you call being wrong 24+ times? Bad luck? Oh wait, you said luck isn't involved. So being wrong for years and years is what, incompetence?

You’re such a troll! Go stand in the corner and think about your actions. 

Ahhhh, did I upset you with facts?

avon b7 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

rogifan_new said:

So are all the people who shit on anybody here who speculated iPhone sales might be soft going to apologize now? It was patently obvious once Apple started heavily pushing the trade-in program and displaying cheaper prices on apple.com homepage that there was an issue with sales.

Not for a minute.

Should someone who's wrong 24 quarters in a row (all the analysts and the idiots who believe them) that now finds their prediction come true one single time suddenly be praised for their insight? Or did they just get lucky after repeating the same tripe over and over to the point where one day they were finally correct?

We all know it's the latter.

Of course, you could have simply accepted a differing opinion and countered with your own reasoned input instead of jumping on posters and labelling them as trolls, shills, idiots and what not. There is no 'getting lucky' here. Price ceilings exist. You have one. I have one. Most of us do. If prices increase in a saturated market and Apple hasn't pushed the envelope on a tech level, something is likely to give. With iPhone, it just gave.

We're focusing on iPhone mainly here and rightly so.

If you don't call being right one time only a lucky guess, then what do you call it?

And what do you call being wrong 24+ times? Bad luck? Oh wait, you said luck isn't involved. So being wrong for years and years is what, incompetence?

One thing they didn't mention is iOS 12.

It literally made older devices usable for another year. I bet that had at least some impact on sales.