DavidAlGregory

We may be seeing in phones the same problem PC makers faced when the desktop OSes matured and HW improvements were not as great between generations- people slowed down upgrading because what they had was “good enough”.

Most of the people buying smartphones are not the audience here at AI, are not users of many of the leading edge features like AR, etc. They make calls, do email, text, use a few apps like navigation and streaming audio and not much else. What they demand of a smartphone is not much different from what any such device could do a decade ago, yet the price of entry has steadily marched up as Apple and others keep trying to up the average selling price.

Most consumer electronics get LESS expensive over time- I can remember what a 32” LCD HDTV was $2500, something you can buy today for maybe $250. But the iPhone and Mac have stubbornly stayed high and moved higher- Samsung as an obvious copier of everything Apple does has followed that path. We may be seeing the end of the road for that marketing plan.

This does not mean there will not be a continuing market for high $ phones, but that the bulk of the market will be shifting to a less expensive but not feature constrained model.

NOLA has always been a “special” place- as in different - and the law enforcement there has always had a reputation.

I am an Apple shareholder since about the time of the OS X Public Beta- well before the bandwagon- and would not shell out $1,000 for a cell phone if Steve Jobs arose from the grave and hand delivered it to me.

It is a phone, people. A nice phone, but not worth $1,000. Back when I was buying my first Apple stock that would buy you an iMac.

Not trying to be a troll, but I consider a $1,000 phone to be an IQ test. If you buy it, you lose.

News to the Stanford students:
It is actually possible to own an iPhone and NOT have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. installed.
I own one and it works just fine.

I do use social media in a limited way to track groups, organizations and publications as a way of discovery. Look at Twitter once, maybe twice a day. Facebook almost never.

They are in for a shock when they actually have to join the workforce. My hospital system has a strict no cell phone policy anywhere a patient or visitor can see or hear you (onstage) and that means on or off the clock when you are on campus and this applies from the CEO down to the cleaning lady. They have all social media sites blocked on all computers. Amazingly, nobody falls dead because they cannot check their accounts and actually work at work.

They can use their personal devices in break rooms out of sight by patients, visitors and family members when at lunch or on break. That is it.

You would think the fact Mark Zuckerberg has his webcam and mike taped over would tell them something.

TomE said:

Sorry Steve for the misfortune.  Now I understand it a little better.  I am still Looking for a good article on Cryptocurrency.

Crypto currency is a highly flawed dumpster fire. Take a little time and research how much money has disappeared (been stolen) in Bitcoin and other cryptos.

If Woz does not want to carry cash tell him to get an Apple Pay account. It is widely accepted and your money does not vaporize. It also does not take three forevers to process a transaction. Or take massive amounts of computer masturbation (bitcoin mining) that wastes a lot of energy.