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Samifaruk said:

Just been on casetify and they have cases and photos of the new iPhone 7

The "7 plus" cases pictured here have only a single lens camera, and a cutout for a 3.5mm headphone jack.  Probably just placeholders.

Canalys believes that Apple's peak iPhone sale volumes are in the past, with a response to the iPhone 6s in international markets like China that the firm calls "lackluster."

Canalys just said sales are down this year, not that they have peaked.  And if you look at the data, you'll see that all the doom about falling iPhone sales looks much more like the first year of the big iPhones was a giant blip, and Apple is back on its former path:

But of course if Apple has an unusually good year, that's a bad thing on Wall Street, because the next year will look worse, and if they have a bad year, they're even more doomed.

dewme said:

I believe Apple should simply bundle iTunes Match directly into Apple Music instead of treating it as a separate add-on, if simply to consolidate the billing models. 

That's what they've done.  Everyone with Apple Music will also have iTunes Match, once the transition is completed.

michael scrip said:

AppleInsider said:

Apple's Mac sheds marketshare in Q2, sinks to 5th place

Apple was in the same 5th place last quarter... according to Gartner.  And they had the same 7.1% market share then too:

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3280626

So I'm not seeing the "sinking" to 5th place or the "shedding" of market share.

Exactly right!  The article starts with, "Apple's share of the global PC market took a substantial hit".  What hit?  And all the Macs are presumably about to be refreshed, which should give them a bump.  Usually we don't come to AI for our daily dose of DOOMED!

thewhitefalcon said:

These rants get more nonsensical and pathetic every time one is posted. The app boom is over, just as surely as the Wii shovelware train eventually came to an end. There's simply too much garbage in the Store now, and Apple won't do the needed purging. Will there be the occasional hit? Sure, but not like the old days. 

According to IDC numbers, 70% of all the developers in the world write at least some software for iOS.  App installs on iOS are growing at about 130% per year.  Total payments to developers is about $50 billion at this point, increasing by about $20 billion per year right now, and going up at a rate of about 20% per year for the past few years.  You can see the graphs for all of this at http://www.asymco.com/2016/06/16/state-of-the-ecosystem/ .  Where do you get your figures that say the boom is over?