LordeHawk

CaptainPaul said:

Hmmm... Maybe it's time Apple stoped being so greedy, money and profit orientated and got back to selling great products at an affordable / decent price.
Cook supposedly says "the iPhone XR has outsold the XS since it's launch in October", ummm yeah, could it be because the XR is a shit wad cheaper than the XS?!
Don't get me wrong, coz I am an Apple user / lover going on 20 years and I would dearly love to "upgrade" my ageing iPhone 6 to a lovely new current model iPhone but, not at these ludicrous prices.
Secondly, Apple has reverted back to it's John Scully days of saturating the market with multiple versions of the same product and Apple was 90 days away from being bankrupt. Something Steve Jobs eradicated upon his return to Apple in the 90's and we know how well the company did after that.
Sorry Mr Cook, you're probably a nice guy but, the advances of technology and idea's died with Steve Jobs and you do not have the ability to think outside the box, therefore, Apple seems to be going no where, whilst still bashing up the prices beyond belief, all the while releasing buggy software that makes the Apple Eco-sphere verging on being as bad as Microcrap (you know who I'm talking about).
Personally, Steve Jobs should have left Tim Cook in his previous post crunching numbers and doing supply orders. Steve should have made Craig Federighi CEO and front man for the Apple business and brand.
Rant mode = off ;-)
Come on Apple, lets get back to being inspiring and great, without the overly high price tags you THINK you can command. Before it's too late.

Please refrain from posting your ignorant tirades in the future, it exposes your lack of respect for the efforts of countless Apple engineers, efforts and our community.  Spend a few moments with google, then articulate your message with facts and opinions.

Your pricing statements are relative and hopefully you pay for an education before another iPhone, “coz” a base model XR is $749 without trade in, or ~$20 month if you average it out 3 years.  Maybe you don’t know an iPhone can be leased or financed without interest?

Its not “greedy” that Apple maintains a healthy margin to reinvest strategically. Your contradiction is obvious, Apple needs to make great products that are affordable to you, and at a reduced margin.  Your second point regarding multiple versions is also incorrect, you’re comparing two different things.  Limited color, storage, and screen size options across so many millions of devices is necessary for market needs.  Not to be confused with Apple’s old overlapping and  confusing product portfolio.

Since you obviously have no knowledge of scales of economies, market segmentation, consumer needs, research & development, global expansion, supply chain & component contracts, and the endless innovation at Apple.  You should take your 1 post self to the closest carrier and get a free Android device.

In case your interested in reality, it takes massive amounts of money to innovate.  No other consumer electronics company in the world can innovate at Apple’s level, not for lack of spending money or trying.  I guess you expect a paradigm shifting product every couple years and that Apple can single handedly push the state of the art along so many fronts.  Oh wait, Apple is doing that, but you wouldn’t notice.  

Here’s an incomplete list of things Apple is improving or innovating; yearly upgrades to the ‘A’ series processors approaching intel chip capabilities, mobile GPUs, computer on chips, computers, countless integrated component chips, health sensors cleared by the FDA, smart speaker, wireless headphones, watches, augmented reality, mapping, neural chips, advanced biometrics, customer privacy, life saving health alerts, smart home API, voice assistant, coding language, web engine, tablets, graphics API, multiple operating systems every year, streaming music, media network, news, cloud services, customer service, artificial intelligence, Titan car project, and the company that will make augmented reality ubiquitous.

Hopefully you don’t also think that hardworking people making an income larger than yours are greedy and ludicrous.  Thanks for playing...

philboogie said:

arthurba said:

First Germany and now Australia.  Apple Pay is a wonderfully secure design. Really glad to see it succeeding in the marketplace. 

Succeed? The service is from 2014, and yet it's only available in ≈ 25 countries. Hardly a succes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pay#Supported_countries

78Bandit said:

This actually fits nicely with the rumor Apple is restarting production of the X because it has a glut of OLED panels it was obligated to purchase from Samsung.  If that rumor is true and Samsung had a guaranteed minimum number of panels Apple agreed to acquire then any slowdown in OLED iPhone sales wouldn't affect its revenue in an unanticipated  major negative way.  You wouldn't see the effects on Samsung's revenue until the after the contract was up for renewal as Apple couldn't cut it's order mid-cycle like it can with smaller suppliers.