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Apple suffers fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, beat Wall Street anyway
Apple is a mass market consumer company. You can’t compare them to Rolex and LV. The market is giving Apple an adjustment because the stock trades at a huge P/E ratio and they are struggling to grow revenue. You also just discount the effects of inflation. That’s a huge factor and forces people to focus their spending on necessities and hold on to any tech they already have. Your line about shopping at Walmart if you don’t have any more money shows you to be a person with no insights and a lack of empathy.zone said:This is so dumb and of course, an overreaction to get people to give up their shares. Apple sales are only down because of the pandemic and the abnormal demand. Also, analyst forgets I guess about crazy inflation on other goods which cause people to have less money. Seems like an amazing quarter to me. Image any other tech company having a quarter like this? Also such a manipulated stock. All other tech companies are terrible but we give them a pass because they stink. As far as Apple prices they are not expensive compared to other high-quality products. No one complains about the cost of an LV purse, or a Rolex, or any other high-end brand. Shop at Walmart and buy crappy tech products if you don't have any more money. I'll stick with the best...
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Apple suffers fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, beat Wall Street anyway
Saying that your original 3G phone is the equivalent to a Pro Max and then comparing prices is ludicrous. Comparing to an iPhone SE would be more appropriate. And even in that case the functionality and capability are so different. Apple is an expensive brand. They do lots of things to piss off customers in terms of costly memory and storage upgrades, which I think in the long term hurts the brand. They excel at hardware architecture and design. They are not as strong with software. There’s room for much improvement in cloud services. Despite their humongous size, I think they are getting stretched thin which shows in their software shortcomings and trying to offer too many services. They might actually benefit from getting out of some of their services. As well as stopping the marketing department from controlling what tech gets offered in their products.CiaranF said:Maybe people are getting pissed off with your prices eh? Your actions on the market then drive up the prices of other smartphone manufacturers cos then they get greedy too. I remember buying my first iPhone 3GS for £299 or £349 back in 2009 or so. Now the same equivalent for me in a Pro Max model is circa £1400. That’s greed too, not inflation.Now you’ve also increased your One subscription prices globally. Third time in 2-3 years too if you’re outside of the US. TV is useless, you’ve to pay for most of the non stuff. Fitness+ bugs the life out of me cos they’re all on Prozac or something with those fake smiles. iCloud is rubbish compared to Googles offering but I need it. Not much use for Arcade either.Start listening to what your audience wants and will endure instead of telling them what they want or you’ll end up like Nokia.
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First M3 benchmarks show big speed improvements over M2
You can be sure the design engineers at Apple are frustrated by some of the shortcomings you identified. But Apple is driven by the Marketing Department and they like to slow and control the flow of new technologies. Maximizing returns on already paid for tech. They will never allow memory or storage upgrades, there’s too much profit in it.nubus said:
Indeed - we don't want the history of 68k or PowerPC to be repeated. On both occasions Apple couldn't deliver. With PowerMac G4 we had the situation where all specs got downgraded after launch by 15% as they couldn't ship for months.Xed said:What's with all the weird ass comments saying that Apple should stop development of new chips?
The benefit of x86 was "there is no difference". With M-series... Apple should deliver the difference. To see ray tracing as a base feature is great. But then we have Thunderbolt 3 from 2015, the 1 display limitation (better than iBook clamshell that had 0 ports), the M3 "no longer so" Pro, 8 GB, and the heavy Apple Tax on memory, the use of LPDDR5 instead of faster LPDDR5X, and the lack of upgrades to iMac (not even the camera got center stage, display is still 23.5", and accessories are not on USB C).
The presentation with "iMac display is huge" and the launch of old accessories indicates that this iMac is not going to last for long. Apple is aware that the display is small, and the accessories need to be replaced within 6-8 months. And the current production node at TSMC is simply too expensive. Not sure if a node change will result in M4 Pro going Pro again or memory prices dropping, but it should.
Black Friday might bring clearance sales on MBP 14 M2 Pro and iMac M1. They could both deliver great value compared to the M3 versions.
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Hands on with HomePod & HomePod mini's new features in software update 17
I have two HomePod mini’s connected to an Apple TV that i setup as the speakers for my TV. It works, but the Minis don’t have the power to create the proper volume for watching movies. I guess you really need to use HomePods for a decent movie experience. -
Hands on with HomePod & HomePod mini's new features in software update 17
I have two Apple TVs and two Home Pod minis. My household runs on Amazon Echoes. The Apple home automation experience is poor. Alexa is superior to Siri. HomeKit is weak. Apple lost the Internet of Things at home opportunity years ago. Their proprietary strategy was typical of Apple. Their vision totally Apple centric. And that’s what has made hem in their current loosing position. It could have been different, but Apple arrogance beat logic and creativity.hammeroftruth said:For me I hope it fixes what it broke with HomeKit. My setup sometimes tells me it has no hubs when I have 3 HomePods and 2 AppleTVs and restarting my iPhone will sometimes fix it. This is after erasing and setting up all of the hub devices. 17 has caused some really weird issues with Homekit and all Apple support can recommend to me is to remove and reinstall all 30+ devices I have.WT actual F?!
