avon b7

JWSC said:

But, but, but ...   We were told that the Pixel 3 XL was superior ...

macplusplus said:

avon b7 said:

macplusplus said:

rogifan_new said:

So this is the front page of Apple’s website right now. I can’t rememner the last time they featured a price promotion at the very top of their front page.

Also, 9to5Mac noticed Apple changed the marketing copy from a one line marketing slogan to a list of specific features:

I don’t usually put much faith in supply chain rumors considering how often they’re wrong but something feels different this year that leads me to believe sales might not be what Apple execs were expecting. I mean if these devices were selling really well why would Apple be pushing trade-in deals (and even increasing the trade-in value by $100)? Why would they be OK with carriers like Sprint and TMobile offering the XR for free with signup? Those are not things you do for products that are selling well.

None of these mean that Apple is panicked, those are routine sales tasks and nothing is unusual. If you’re a business your reason of being is sales. A business without sales is not “business”, it is just a hobby. Trade-ins are good, especially for some international price-sensitive markets suffering from exchange rates. We all know that traded-in iPhones are not trash, they preserve their resale value, with the addition of refurb and backed by a new warranty those may go well to price-sensitive markets. Do not underestimate carrier subsidies, a carrier is a sales channel and sales channels are everything in a business of Apple’s scale. Everything is fine and happens as predicted...

You skirted his point somewhat. Specifically, he mentioned that he couldn't remember the last time he saw a price splash on Apple's front page. Also that the trade in offers had improved. 

Recent changes such as these and right in the middle of the Christmas ramp up are curious to say the least.

You are right that it doesn't mean Apple is panicked but he never said that in the first place. The actions are reactions to something. The question is what. I doubt it is simply a case of Christmas spirit.

Then there are many more aspects of international trade to speculate about, if this is what we want to do: Trump and Xi are about to come to an agreement, they suspended the trade war for 90 days, the markets may have entered into a “hold on” mode... And Apple’s current task is to sell as much as it can, sales never wait, you sell “now” or never... Again, nothing is unusual, exceptional tactics during exceptional trends, that’s it...

sebastian37 said:

radarthekat said:

redhotfuzz said:

I’m not concerned about the stock price. Yes, I get an ulcer every time it goes for a dive as my life savings is essentially riding on Apple, but anyone who knows anything at all understands that AAPL is the most manipulated stock in the history of stocks. Irrational drops are just part of the ride. When I first bought AAPL in 2001, it almost immediately dropped 40%. Had I not been young and poor, I would have bought more. Instead I flew around the room in a panic. Fortunately I was patient enough to hang in there. I only wish I had as much as some of the rest of you on this forum. Apple is certainly in fine shape for many, many years to come. I remember when we had supposedly reached “Peak Apple” when the iPod had saturated the market and the iPhone had yet to be revealed to the world. Stock market analysts are dumbasses. 

That said, I wouldn’t mind seeing less of Humanitarian Tim Cook and more of Tech Innovator Tim Cook. It chaps my hide that Apple has essentially ceded the smart home hardware market to Amazon (freaking Amazon!!!) and to a lesser extent Google, when there were whispers of Apple getting into home automation YEARS before Alexa was even wisp of an idea.

Apple is spending BILLIONS in R&D and it certainly doesn’t cost that much to develop bezel-less iPads and $130 styli. When do we get to see the next great product line come out of Apple’s secret labs? Every time Tim & Co. drop a line in an interview about exciting new things in the works, I certainly never think they’re talking about Apple Watches with curved-corner displays.

Apple simply needs to move with more urgency. The Chinese (thanks to free software development by our friends at Google) will continue to copy every innovation Apple comes up with and sell those innovations at bottom-dollar (née, bottom-yuan) to infinity and beyond. Apple can only stay ahead by expanding its product lines and strengthening its ecosystem (see: home automation again).

And when will we finally see Apple take the gloves off and start marketing the message about Google’s dystopian business model? Most consumers are ignorant of the fact that Google (through its Asian knockoff partners) sells cheap hardware only to suck up personal data to sell to advertisers, killing American companies and innovation in the process. Apple is basically the last remaining American mobile device maker, thanks to Google, who’ll sell you out to the Chinese or Koreans without a single ounce of remorse. 

Google with Android might actually be doing a service to Apple by copying the user experience as closely as it has over these last ten years.  Because android phones adapt the market to an iPhone-like experience.  As Tim says, Android is training ground for iOS.  As the middle class around the world expands, more and more people who aspire to own an iPhone can actually afford one.  

Middle class outside the western world has less money. Chinese middle class families earn 10k to 40k per year. Not enough at todays iPhone prices. 

silvergold84 said:

The single day in China did show us like Apple destroyed huawei. All the companies like counterpoint did report the chart of smartphones top seller: not an huawei in the first ten position of most sold model of smartphones. So what this analyst taking about ? 

seanj said:

rotateleftbyte said:

Wonderful news. Just as those of us in the UK will probably lose access to Galileo due to BREXIT even though we paid a lot of the costs.

More Remoaner nonsense.

Anybody equipped with a receiver in any country will be able to access Galileo - assuming the EU can find replacement ground stations to replace the U.K. controlled ones.
The U.K. military may lose access to the encrypted military signals; but that’s assuming they work as the encryption tech is British and an export ban has been threatened.
Theres also the small matter of the hugely over budget Galileo system suffering clock failures aboard the satellites; only the Swiss built clocks though... the U.K. built clocks are fine.