anantksundaram

elijahg said:

nunzy said:

kkapoor said:

I have family in India and all of them are iPhone users. However, most middle to upper class Indians have some family in the US or Canada or UK. They are wealthy enough to pay the premium in India for the iPhone but smart enough to just pick it up when they visit their family abroad or ask their family to bring one for them when they visit during the Christmas holidays. A couple of hundred dollars is still a couple of hundred dollars. The Indian mentality about spending money is what Apple really needs to understand. In my view, in order to grow sales in India Apple will have to accept a lower margin on each phone and build loyalty into the population through price. That will pay dividends in the long run.

Profit is more important than market share. Apple needs to maintain its margins. No race to the bottom.

As usual your baseless comments show you have such a simplistic view on Apple and the world. Profit is important, but so is market share. If Apple has 80% profit on 1% market share, that's a lot less income than 40% profit on 5% share. Low market share has other problems; Apple-only services can only be used by a minority of the market making it inconvenient for those Apple users to share with non-Apple users. Developers see it as a small market so are less likely to develop for the platform. It's the same vicious circle that Apple was stuck in in the '90's, but Jobs was able to break out of it and hugely increase Mac market share.

lkrupp said:

Don’t like the price, don’t buy it. Bitching about it just makes you look petty and stupid like bitching about the price of a Tesla Model S. If you don’t like the idea of Apple being a premium brand with premium prices then switch platforms. Buy a Dell and a cloth laptop bag like @Ireland suggests and brag to all your friends how much money you saved over buying Apple. It’ll make you feel superior to your bourgeoisie friends who bought the MacBook Pro AND the leather sleeve just because they could.

Guess what? You can buy a Ford or Chevy with more horsepower and performance than, say, a BMW X5. Guess what? I have a couple of family members who own luxury cars and they need servicing just as much as a Chevy Spark or a Ford Taurus, and the servicing costs a lot more too. So you can get a Dell or Lenovo or ASUS laptop with more memory, faster CPU, ports galore for less money? So what? DO IT THEN instead of bitching about Apple’s prices.

darkpaw said:

"The Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro is well implemented, but serves no useful purpose"

Well, says you, one person at AI.

andyshannon said:

Someone should count the number of times in the video he says "a little bit" "slightly" "small change". Sounds like a revolutionary upgrade here!

nunzy said:

gmgravytrain said:

christopher126 said:

This is what I love about Apple...always pushing the envelope!

I remember, back in the day, when the iPod was big. Every year Apple would introduce an improved model, even thought they had 85% market share in MP3 players. And then they introduced the Shuffle and obtained 85% of the flash MP3 players by the following Friday!

One thing is absolutely certain. Apple will never get 85% of the global smartphone market. Maybe 8.5% if they get lucky. $1000 smartphones are a hard sell to consumers for most countries in the world. I don't see any solution Apple has for gaining smartphone market share in third-world/emerging countries.

I don't think Apple cares about third world countries.