shrave10

You mean it was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Jobs taught the kids to play ... video games?

Android sales in Q1 2018 sank 8% yoy in China while iPhone sales grew 32% yoy in same period. http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/04/chinas-smartphone-market-shrank-8-in-q1-2018-while-apples-iphone-sales-beat-the-trend-spectacularly.html May be the problem is with Android phones which thus far use a lot more OLED panels? Only the iPhone X uses OLED thus far. But the ramp up in the second half of year co-incides with the rumour of more iPhone models using OLED screens.

deminsd said:

There will be a point (and it doesn't matter if it's Android or Apple) that people are going to get tired of shelling out close to $1000 for a phone that is only marginally better than the one they have now.  Before, there were deals and trade-in offers by the carriers that allowed people to get a phone for half price or even free, but now the deals are terrible.  Every thing is "with trade in" and they give you a crappy value for your flagship phone, and then make you wait 24 months to get all your trade-in value.  It will happen with Apple sooner or later when they just start making minor changes and people keep what they have (ie., the iPhone 8).  

It's already happened with Apple according to one recent survey stating the life of the average iPhone now is around 4 years. Yet, with 1.3 billion iPhone users out there in the wild, Apple has continued to churn out over 90% of the smartphone industry's profits. Apple's installed base is set to grow further as they continue to release cheaper tablets and MacBooks to attack the low end markets. This will tend to bring even more users into the platform and grow the annual upgrade parade revenues. One stick being thrown in the wheel is whether the $25 battery replacement deals will prolong the life of iPhones even further. Personally, from the folks I"ve talked to, most users are not likely to keep their phones more than four years even with a battery change. However, if it does have this effect, then the iPhone users will probably just use the additional bucks in their pockets to grab another Apple product like the Watch or HomePod, etc. This only adds to their ecosystem effect and locks them into the iPhone even stronger. Either way, Android seems to be in for long term deterioration of their mobile market share and Apple is set for more growth in "Services & Other Revenues".

tzm41 said:

Wireless CarPlay + wireless charging would be perfect.

A butt warmer that does wireless CarPlay + wireless charging of the phone in your pocket would be even more perfect here in Canada.  Lol!

Problem is that criminals know how to use third party sw to encrypt their messages but the average consumer does not. So all it will do is promote snooping on citizens by their own governments and also create opportunities for people to be abused by foreign governments and criminals who have cracked the backdoor key code.