minglok50

Mr_Grey said:

iPad revenues will go back up because of the Apple Pencil.  As they add it to the iPad Air (and eventually to the mini), people will be forced to buy a new iPad.  Beyond that however, what are they going to do?  That's just next year, and just a blip.  

Apple really doesn't seem to have a clue in how to make the iPad market grow in the long term.  Not only that, they seem to be moving in the wrong direction (with the noted exception of the Pencil).  

Also, who really gives a rodent's behind about the super-rich Apple employees work benefits?  Most of the employees at Apple (barring the retail ones) are millionaires already. They already have the kind of working conditions one would expect in Canada or Europe and are thus far above the rest of the American population already.  Why should I as a customer of Apple care that they now have even more?  

elijahg said:

minglok50 said:

Have you even used an iPad? Try using Astropad with an iPad pro and you realise how much potential the pro has in a professional market. Wacom should be worried

No, the iPad Air I said I have is of course still in its original box, unused.

That's great but it's just one app - the OS needs much more capability like a real filesystem. Trying to get anything from one app to another is such a huge hassle, and having a third party app like Dropbox isn't a solution. 

Rayz2016 said:

cnocbui said:

No, the only thing that can stop it is to pay the taxes on the overseas hoard and and announce an increased dividend. 

How would losing $35billion increase the share price?

macky the macky said:

Well Apple is certainly doomed. The BBC says "Apple reports slowest iPhone sales growth since the product's launch."

elijahg said:

rogifan_old said:

He mentioned the watch but not iPad. Which leads me to believe iPad Pro sales were soft. 

I was looking at getting an iPad Pro, but with the £679 base model only being 32GB plus an insane £79 for the pencil it's just way too expensive, especially when considering how limited iOS is. The 128GB model with pencil is slightly more than the price of the hugely more capable Surface Pro, with all its ports. The iPad still just seems like a giant phone to me. I find it's hard to be productive on an iPad (I have an iPad Air) with its giant iPhone apps, which I think is a bit of a consequence of the apps being universal between iPhone and iPad. For me, a device with the size and expense of the iPad Pro really needs more software functionality to justify its price tag.