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nunzy said:

This is why the devs always come out with the iOS version of an app before they come out with the Android version, and lots of them never even bother to make an Android version.

And the iOS version is always much better quality than the Android version.

Android cannot survive much longer. They tried to kill the iPhone, but they failed.

You need to dig a little deeper. The article deliberately played down the bigger issue and as a result only used the word Android once.

That should have put you on alert.

However, you jumped in and used it four times in three very short paragraphs!

This piece isn't really about Android. It is about the Google Play store. When it says the Google Play Store isn't available in China but the App Store is, didn't it occur to you that removing China from any smartphone tally would seriously distort the numbers?

The linked article only compares Google's and Apple's stores. It doesn't compare Android with iOS in any meaningful way.

In 2016, non-Play Store Android app revenue was sitting at 10 billion dollars. In 2017 it was expected to double and combined Android app at revenues were expected to surpass Apple App Store revenue:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/app-annie-android-to-top-ios-in-app-store-revenue-this-year/

Now, I don't know the figures for the first half of 2018 for combined Android app store revenue nor the Apple figures without the China numbers but if you want a meaningful platform comparison, the numbers really should take Apple's China revenues off the total or add non-Play Store Android app revenue onto the total.

nunzy said:

kkapoor said:

I have family in India and all of them are iPhone users. However, most middle to upper class Indians have some family in the US or Canada or UK. They are wealthy enough to pay the premium in India for the iPhone but smart enough to just pick it up when they visit their family abroad or ask their family to bring one for them when they visit during the Christmas holidays. A couple of hundred dollars is still a couple of hundred dollars. The Indian mentality about spending money is what Apple really needs to understand. In my view, in order to grow sales in India Apple will have to accept a lower margin on each phone and build loyalty into the population through price. That will pay dividends in the long run.

Profit is more important than market share. Apple needs to maintain its margins. No race to the bottom.

You have misunderstood something. This isn't about making something available at a lower price. The iPhone 6 is already at a low price. In that context and from your viewpoint, you could say that Apple is already in a race to the bottom. All of its smartphone competitors match Apple at every price band. Some even go lower and some even go higher. The problem (if these rumours and estimates are to be believed) is that Apple just isn't shifting large numbers.

Another way to see it is that 'race to the bottom' has become a meaningless soundbite that has little to do with reality when it comes to the biggest smartphone manufacturers.

If the strategy of selling lower priced phones that are a few years old doesn't get the expected results, Apple has a couple of options:

1. Go back to the 2016 plan, reduce the product spread and eliminate some price bands.

2. Do what competitors do. Keep the price bands but plunk NEW hardware into them and possibly alter release cycles.

I think you can rule out option one.

We'll have to wait for a teardown if Apple is not forthcoming on the changes. If this third generation keyboard can be replaced more easily than the previous two generations, and as a result, can't be swapped into earlier models, I think most people would accept it.

If it can fit earlier models but Apple isn't allowing it, I think people will feel rightly petplexed.

StrangeDays said:

DESI DAAM said:

I am an Indian and I can tell you why Apple will never reach a double digit Market Share in India.

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3. When I can buy a Monster with 3 GB RAM, massive 5.5 Inch screen, 32GB Internal and 128GB expandable storage, carved out of high grade Aluminium, having the latest processor and running the latest Nougat or Oreo at 1/3rd the Price(Rs 8000 or $116) of an Iphone(Rs 25000 or $365), Why should I buy an iphone which has 1GB Ram, is almost 3 years old, 4.7" screen with 32GB Storage and No external Storage at all?

Oh, specs! Sorry, but you don’t understand Apple at all or the product it’s selling. Hint, it has almost nothing to do with spec wars or keeping up with the Jones’ RAM. 

Apple, and everyone else is dependent on specs. You will never get away from that and trying to argue that having less RAM than others somehow supports your argument doesn't change anything.

In this particular case, a few valid specs were mentioned. There is no getting away from screensize for example. That was the one spec that gave a shot in the arm to the iPhone.

nunzy said:

 Drake owes everything to Apple.  Without iTunes, he would be nothing.

Apple came in and changed the entire music industry forever. Drake is reaping the rewards.

I know you see it that way but Apple owes everything to subscribers and the artists. Not the other way around. Apple isn't providing a service that didn't already exist and even shunned streaming as a model at one point in time.

If anything, Apple owes something to Drake (apart from money) for releasing something that creates demand.