“Turns out that iPhone addiction is much harder to kick than previously thought and is now driving Apple’s growth in an increasingly maturing smartphone market,” Yuichiro Kanematsu and Kotaro Hosokawa report for Nikkei. “Over the past five years, the average price of smartphones running on Google’s Android operating system has halved to around $200. This means smaller profits for Apple’s competitors, who are now focusing more on undercutting one another than on pursuing innovation. One unintended consequence has been that consumers are attaching less value to their smartphones, putting even more pressure on prices.”
“During the recent year-end holiday season, the iPhone 7 became a hit,” Kanematsu and Hosokawa report. “In the three months through December, Apple sold 78.29 million units around the world, up 5% from a year before and a quarterly sales record… Apple’s renewed vigor is also visible in its share price, which has gained about 30% during the past four months. ”
“The upcoming iPhone, to be launched this fall, will come in three configurations — two with liquid crystal displays and one with a 5.8-inch organic light-emitting diode display,” Kanematsu and Hosokawa report. “By adding more large-screen options to the lineup to meet growing demand for BIG, Apple intends to raise the average iPhone price, which has already gone up by about 10% in the past three years to nearly $700.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Market dynamics are starving Android which races headlong to the bottom which Apple vacuums up all of the market’s profits.
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IF Apple would focus on the Mac as much as they do the iPhone the Mac would be making record sales. Apple in the price to the top has halted mac sales. Why can’t Apple do a low end iMac that can be upgradeable later on and then a macbook thats cheaper too then have a pro with multi ports. No reason we can’t have a Macbook pro that looks awesome but not quite as thin as it is but have a multitude of ports on both sides. This is a day and age of the multi connection. Even the macbook should have more then the stupid USBC connection.
I dont care that many things can be done wireless now people still want ports.
I can’t sell people on Mac anymore the prices are so high and the innovation is stagnate and on the laptops are just over priced. My MB Air from 2012 still works great for me. My iMac 2012 with the upgraded i7 processor works great. Hard drive just went out but figured id have it replaced with an SSD drive
I use to upgrade like i do my iPhone but not anymore. The newest iMac is the same I7 so why upgrade.
Forgive me a cruel chuckle at Android profit expense and knucklehead Fandroid in general anxious to give up their data to all comers more or less selling their souls. But I agree with the assessment of where Mac sales are and where they could be with a generous application of real attention and constant upgrading.
I am waiting until WWDC 2017 to see if Apple has learned anything about what the pro market wants in a Mac Pro and upon being disappointed (not counting on being delighted) put in my PC Workstation order at Puget Systems or build my own starting the next day.
¥es, even Apple enthusiasts who are non-pros want pros to have the MacPro available, this, at least for purposes of perception and marketing. As people have observed, Cook seems to sees little marketing value in making MacPros. Cook is wrong.
I’d love to see Apple Computers formed as a company once again. One goal. Make the best computers on the planet backed by the best OS and applications. They can play nicely with iOS through iCloud, but live a life of their own if needed.
The real war right now is in mobile and Apple needs to focus on the iPhone and win that. They are moving toward total dominance. improvements to the Mac, even great improvements, aren’t going to move the dial much for the company. But I’m sure they’ll come up with some new stuff for professional users eventually.
Bigger 5.8″ screen, but, but, what about that one handed use bullshit, huh Apple?
Many people do prefer one handed. Apple still sells plenty of those. Also, the technology for larger displays (like problems with battery life) wasn’t as good as when Jobs said that. It makes sense that as technology improves Apple can offer things that might not have made sense before.
That said, Jobs was a salesman. So he put his spin on things. Nothing wrong with that.
Can someone start off these threads with, “Insert usual Mac complaints here”.
It would save us all a lot of time and boredom – including the writers.
Much like your own post here?
Ever think our posts are not for your benefit but the hope someone at Apple is reading these on any given day and encourage them to make our wishes come true?
I’ll be glad to come down equally apathetically hard on your next whiny wish list as “dull, boring and STFU” next time you post one btw.
“Ever think our posts are not for your benefit but the hope someone at Apple is reading…”
1. I think anyone at Apple got the message long, long ago.
2. And even if they didn’t, the frequent tone of petulance and bombast plus personal insult is not how to communicate constructively with any company.
“1. I think anyone at Apple got the message long, long ago.”
You can presume that, I don’t. It bears repeating because it’s THAT vital.
“2. And even if they didn’t, the frequent tone of petulance and bombast plus personal insult is not how to communicate constructively with any company.”
Some insult Tim Cook but I never do. But I don’t think we need to be toadying to Apple either, gratefully groveling for any Mac scrap they throw our way. Vendors get yelled at all the time if they aren’t fulfilling a clients needs, especially when they stretch customers patience to the breaking point.
No worries I’m sure they’re wearing their big boy pants and can take the heat without crumpling. But don’t let that stop you from being oh so super-polite and oh so summarily ignored. Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
If it is that VITAL, then contact Apple directly. Or join a MUG and issue a declaration to Apple. Or start an online petition and present it to Apple. Or propose an initiative at the annual shareholders meeting to spin off a Mac division or something similar.
Do something that has the potential to make a difference. Repetition of the griping on this forum is a form of insanity.
I have. Using all resources available. I recommend others do likewise. Posts are easily ignored, Apple sins of omission or lack of action are not. This is an Apple forum and complaints don’t need to be limited to only one instance. Unlike some here I am usually sympathetic to those who have issues since I have my own with Apple. But I take your point. Problem is this is a problem that grates at many of us daily when we look at our desks and unfulfilled expectations, which in a way by lack of timely action Apple has created, this “form of insanity.” However I am completely sane and there are no guarantees I will keep quiet simply because others don’t like it. I appreciate your POV though as you and I are often in agreement.
It’s the Russians fault!!!
Perhaps you could stimulate discussion by posting something related to the topic at hand (even if you have a gripe). A rumoured OLED screen isn’t exactly breaking news. It’s been discussed on this forum many times.
Most members who frequent this site have been Mac users long before the iPhone even existed. It’s difficult to remain silent as the Mac lineup continually gets ignored in favour of iOS devices.
There are Apple users out there that buy a new computer prior to AppleCare expiring, businesses that upgrade every 3 years, businesses that lease computers etc. that are stuck looking at the same model they purchased 3 years ago.
It’s bad business on Apple’s end of things and it wouldn’t be happening if the iPhone etc. didn’t exist.
Apple really needs to refocus on Macs. They have all the resources in world to do so. It’s inexcusable.
I feel like Apple knows exactly how far they can push their loyal consumers. It’s like a rubber band stretching. Just when it’s stretched as far as possible, and there is no way now how you’re going to buy some lame meager update phone from Apple ever again, they apply just enough significant updates to release and relax the rubber band tension, so you want the next iPhone and they cycle of minor updates can start again.
Same for Mac.
No, Apple is just becoming a bureaucratic mess in an era when people are desperate for more intuitive computing in a world full of complicated messy tech.
The problem as I see it is that Apple no longer believes in giving people personal devices. It now wants to be the big brother it lampooned in 1984.
By refusing to build affordable consumer friendly personal computers, Apple is ceding millions in profits to Microsoft and the wintel box makers. It will bite Apple in the ass eventually.
If Apple only puts OLED on the phablet sized iphone, I’m done with them. I will not ever own the monolith sized phone, E V E R.