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I think Google influences the media quite a bit.  This was covered in the news awhile back.  

I also agree that Apple stock is manipulated.  I can’t prove it, but the pattern has been happening for awhile now.  

So much speculation and rumors making the news. If there is anything that is fake news for me, it’s “supply chain.”

rogifan_new said:

MacPro said:

SEJU said:

Ok, but if the price would have been comparable to the previous generations, they would have sold more. The configuration I usually purchase would have cost me 1500 or so. I hope they will bring down the price to where it used to be over the next generations, but I doubt they will do so...

Sold more maybe but at less profit. It's about profits not volume.

BS. If nobody is buying your product it doesn’t matter how much profit it would make. It’s a balance of maximizing both. Also considering how important services and recurring subscription revenue is I think Apple very much cares about sales and growing the install base.

Actually, it is about profits, not about volume. They make more money (profit) selling less units (volume) because the value of the iPhone is high enough (demand) to do so.  Maximizing both is really about maximizing profit, since to do otherwise would mean not maximizing profit.  Thus, the Apple high margin model, which others attempt and fail to emulate.    

Your argument fails because you frame the issue as insufficient sales (nobody is buying your product). Obviously, if there are insufficient sales, revenues will be weak. However, maximizing profit as a function of maximizing volume leads to the low-margin model, and the race to the bottom strategy that, barring an outside third party subsidy (such as Googles ad business subsidizing their speaker and phone business), is eventually unsustainable.  

Of course, Apple cares about growing the install base.  But that doesn’t mean that it’s current strategy isn’t working.  

wood1208 said:

gilly017 said:

The rumor mill never gets tired of having egg in the face. Take that Bloomberg yah bunch of schmucks.

Even Forbe's two Apple related article writer idiot(Spensor and Gorden) who constantly bad mouse Apple and Apple products will need to eat their own S*t.

Can’t stand Forbes. 

The knockout punch can be explained by the fact that the growth in iPhone ASP and sales is the dominant and perhaps only factor explaining a growth in global ASP revenue because android phones are in a race to the bottom. In other words, it’s the iPhone ASP and sales which drives the 21% global ASP growth leading to 18% revenue growth, not cheap androids.  But for the iPhone, the industry as a whole would not be seeing the aforementioned ASP and revenue growth.  

“It's obvious that the shift in global smartphone ASPs to $374 was not driven up by Samsung's phones selling at an ASP of around $235. And while other phone makers have aspired to release expensive phones (including Google's record-high pricing for its Pixel 2 models), these models do not sell in high volumes; Pixel 2 was a major flop. The growth in ASP came from millions of sales of expensive iPhones. ”