“If you’re an analyst on Wall Street covering Apple, yesterday was one of the biggest days of the year for you,” Julie Verhage reports for Bloomberg. “It was the annual event where the tech giant typically unveils its newest edition of the iPhone, a product which accounts for a massive portion of the company’s sales.”
“This time around, the biggest new feature on the two phones announced Wednesday, is something called 3D Touch which enables the phone to know how forcefully someone is touching the screen,” Verhage reports. “Other announcements included a larger iPad called the iPad Pro, a new Apple TV, and a software update for the Apple Watch.”
“Wall Street was a mixed bag on this one, with some analysts coming away fairly impressed and others saying they were underwhelmed,” Verhage reports. “Here’s a quick roundup.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As usual, it’ll take more than a day for analysts to figure out what just happened.
Wall Street Analysts = Deer in the headlights, or Zombies.
That paints enough of a picture for me.
> sed -i -e ‘s/Wall Street analyst/Stock manipulator/g’ *.*
There; fixed the typo.
There are only 10 reasons to be in business. The first is to make a profit. The other nine don’t count.
The strategy you employ to make a profit doesn’t matter (assuming its legal), as long as the business makes a profit.
Since the launch of the iPod every, EVERY, new Apple product has been panned by the “experts”, only to have that new product go on to dominate the industry in the only metric that counts – profits.
Using the measure above, its obvious the critics of Apple are ignorant of the success potential of Apple’s new products, and should be ignored.
The ignorant and the anti-anything Apple will now respond with negative votes.
Apple’s latest products are evolutionary not revolutionary. Apple reached its zenith with Jobs, now we witness Apple’s serene journey into predictably staid keynotes and unimaginative mediocrity.
Slightly revisionist memory??? Jobs’ introduction of the iPad was greeted by many as underwhelming.
And what has Apple revealed since Jobs that is revolutionary? AppleWatch? Mere imitation. Even the iPad is an imitation, even if it exceptional among tablets. That’s it. Jobs brought the personal computer to the world and the first true smart phone.
Another brain trust revealed.
“Underwhelming”? By that do you mean nothing you didn’t already know from the rumor mills?
The only difference between the leadership of Jobs and Cook is the under Jobs, nothing factual was leaked to the media outlets. Ergo, everything announced by Jobs was a surprise.
With Jobs I waited with anticipation for each keynote. Now I couldn’t care less. I wait for post marketing surveillance and news reports. I have refrained from watching Apple keynotes. It is a waste of my time. Apple is now producing appliances, not excitement.
And who is turning out what you’d call revolutionary electronic products right now that’s in the same businesses that Apple’s in?
I think they are solid updates, and I badly want an iPad Pro. But there was nothing awe inspiring in the Keynote itself and I do feel like while Apple is continuing to make great products, there is a spark missing in general. It’s not very exciting stuff any more.
The level of force detection of the 3D force touch capability might better be presented by using it on say an on-screen musical keyboard, playing soft if lightly pressed and loud if tapped harder with gradations in between similar to how modern electronic music keyboards work. As the vid currently is, it seems to be mostly a faster version of the long touch with haptic feedback available in Android devices as old as the Galaxy S2.
Wall Street can’t see beyond Tim Cook. Until he’s gone, they never will.
They could not see beyond Steve Jobs either. This is the outcome when wall street has such weak leadership.
Meanwhile Tim Cook continues to breeze through like a true trail blazer. How’s that new Hermès watch band for you Jay, clunky enough?
What’s the point in a strap that doesn’t fit? Clunky watch accompanied by a useless length of leather – who would be interested in buying that combination? I predict zero sales of this silliness.
Oh thanks for the predictions Jay, the inaccuracy on your predictions are pretty well 100% so it looks like clunky watch and useless length of leather will make a lot more than zero sales.
You should be an analyst, I think they accept trolls.
What they really don’t understand is the total revenue that Apple will generate from all these new items combined. They can’t grasp how much they are going to generate with the new Apple TV. The iPad Pro will be an “addition” for people who already have one/two or more. The pen I believe will be a big hit for an unbelievable amount of people, children, and just about every document signature software. The watch will continue to grow.
The numbers will be staggering when they start reporting by next year.
Once again, if the new iPhone could bring people back from the grave and they had Steve Jobs return to talk about it on stage, some Wall Street geniuses would still question USB ports, replaceable battery or Android saturation.
Fellas… many of ya’ll simply don’t wanna think the unthinkable… that this most recent event may mark the beginning of a tipping point. Wall Street doesn’t like the Watch and didn’t like the mentality that ok’d the Beats deal.
They also don’t like that the real television that Jobs worked on has not or may not ever appear. The stock price and mindful interest will go up when genuinely new and innovative products start appearing again. Making existing products bigger and calling down the thunder for only-dorks-will-buy-this products or ‘meh’ innovations like 3D touch ain’t gonna help the case. I’ll bet the 3D touch turns out to be more of a nuisance than boon. And people will just buy 13″ laptops instead of a bigger iPad. The trick would be add the iPad’s screen to a laptop, duh.
I’ve the suspicion that this Apple event is the final thermonuclear war Apple is waging on Google and Samdung. Both evils will now be panicking on how they could copy and catch up with so many new innovative products launched at the same time by Apple.