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henrybay said:

The iPhone 8 continues to outsell the newer phones (XS and XR) in my local Apple store in Sydney during the Xmas/New Year period. I suspect this is the same situation elsewhere but now that Apple doesn’t report individual model performances we may never know.  

But I do know this - many people much prefer Touch ID to Face ID, which causes them to choose the older models such as the iPhone 8. 

Touch ID was also a major differentiator for iPhones but Apple’s latest models are almost identical to every other Samsung it Huawei phones. 

Apple needs to bring back Touch ID ASAP, remove the silly notch and reintroduce rectangular screens (without curved corners). 

rogifan_new said:

ericG721 said:

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avon b7 said:

Well, that was pretty clear. At least in part, pricing really IS an issue and I think a DED article today was implying China was performing well for Apple.

And yet nothing in Cook’s letter that specifically talks about price. The biggest blunder in the last couple years is the 23% increase in iPhone prices. Apple raised prices to offset declining unit growth and its come back to bite the company.

The longer term problem is not having something to takeover for the iPhone as the smartphone market matures. This is because no one can replace Jobs. Not only the lack of vision but also lighting a fire under Jony's butt and the recent quality problems and design inconsistencies show that Cook can't get the parts of the company to work together like Jobs did.

This press release specifically said all of the guidance shortfall is due to iPhone. There are no quality problems or design inconsistencies with iPhone. 

elijahg said:

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sirlance99 said:

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sirlance99 said:

ericthehalfbee said:

avon b7 said:

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rogifan_new said:

So are all the people who shit on anybody here who speculated iPhone sales might be soft going to apologize now? It was patently obvious once Apple started heavily pushing the trade-in program and displaying cheaper prices on apple.com homepage that there was an issue with sales.

Not for a minute.

Should someone who's wrong 24 quarters in a row (all the analysts and the idiots who believe them) that now finds their prediction come true one single time suddenly be praised for their insight? Or did they just get lucky after repeating the same tripe over and over to the point where one day they were finally correct?

We all know it's the latter.

Of course, you could have simply accepted a differing opinion and countered with your own reasoned input instead of jumping on posters and labelling them as trolls, shills, idiots and what not. There is no 'getting lucky' here. Price ceilings exist. You have one. I have one. Most of us do. If prices increase in a saturated market and Apple hasn't pushed the envelope on a tech level, something is likely to give. With iPhone, it just gave.

We're focusing on iPhone mainly here and rightly so.

If you don't call being right one time only a lucky guess, then what do you call it?

And what do you call being wrong 24+ times? Bad luck? Oh wait, you said luck isn't involved. So being wrong for years and years is what, incompetence?

You’re such a troll! Go stand in the corner and think about your actions. 

Ahhhh, did I upset you with facts?

Not at all. There’s always people like you that root for the team they love no matter what. Apple could kill thousands of people and you’d still defend them no matter what. Just tired of you trying to bully people hear that have a different opinion than you do. You are an ass and I’m calling you out on that. 

Liar. I simply tell the truth. If Apple does something wrong I'll say so.

Trolls just hate it when you call them on their lies over and over. Which probably explains why you're so upset.

You seem to think this doesn't vindicate people who said prices were too high. It does. But you're defending that by saying Apple's prices are right, despite sales being down. You're a troll.

payeco said:

rogifan_new said:

Apple putting Apple Music on Amazon devices makes no sense to me. It does nothing to enhance Apple’s ecosystem. All it does is allow you to stream music Apple doesn’t own using another voice platform. The amount of extra services revenue they’ll get is a rounding error on their financials. And who at Apple thinks it’s a good idea for the company to be promoting Alexa? WTF? I feel bad for the HomePod team. Apparently employees who work on that product didn’t know anything about this Apple Music deal with Amazon and are not happy about it.

How is this really that different than Apple Music on Android or iTunes on Windows?