“Apple Inc. is again an investor darling — for good reason,” Therese Poletti reports for MarketWatch.
“But some investors wonder if Apple now has reached its apogee, a point at which the company starts to lose its cutting edge,” Poletti reports. “Already Apple’s outlook for a slower March quarter, which also includes the impact of foreign currency, raises a question about its ability to keep generating rapid, robust sales growth.”
What could sour Apple? Here are three potential threats investors need to watch:
1. Dependence on the iPhone and upgrade cycle
2. The Apple Watch could start slowly — or not at all
3. The iPad is losing its pop
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take:
4. If the moon spontaneously combusts
5. Mega-earthquake drops California into the Pacific.
Or Godzirra attacks
Haahaha! Your sperring is light on! 😀
His spelling is the usual stupid western mispronunciation of the original Japanese, looking for laughs and falling flat on his ass in the process. About what I’d expect from an American, specifically a redneck.
The name he’s looking for is Gojira, or Godzilla according to gaijin.
(To save you the effort, that means ‘stupid foreigner).
sigh…if only we could be so lucky 😉
Lol…
Dont discount Astroids…
You mean… Ass’Droids? They’re already discounted much lower than iPhones. Of course, if you mean “asteroids”, that’s something else altogether.
I had astroids recently. Hurt like hell. Gotta eat more fiber.
Cool, I’d like to see that.
Another Monday of click-whoring noise. And yet another “Apple is doomed” garbage article.
Apple. Doomed to failure since 1997. (Yeah, right.)
I don’t know, I’ve must of read over several hundred such articles over the past 20 years. Yet time and again Apple proves them totally wrong. Do these guys think Apple is sitting on their hands and are in the game just for the money?
Apple spends a lot of its cash hoard on R&D. They have some of the most talented creative people working in the industry.
What is with this obsession to see Apple fail? Without Apple, computing would be stuck in a world of mediocrity with good enough operating systems and applications.
Apple spends billions on R&D, and than has to watch as other companies just copy and rip off their IP. It’d be a sad day indeed if Apple were to fail. Too many companies and people would suffer their loss in a plethora of ways.
Back in ’97, when Apple truly WAS “beleaguered”, I made pretty much the same observations, and was publicly laughed at. All the same weird insults of being a “fanboy” who “drank the Apple Kool Ade” (I see what you did there… and it’s still not funny guys!), as if my arguments were invalid.
I can say the only time I’ve been wrong about Apple is when *I* begin to doubt the company’s future. I would have bet against Intel chips, the iPod, the iPhone (if I dig deep enough I believe I made the statement “why in god’s name would Apple mess with cell phones?!”). Such much for MY “fan boy” status!
Most valuable company in the world, just released an earnings statement that blew expectations out of the water, the best in Apple corporate history (and publicly held company history in general), and yet within days there were “Here’s Why Apple’s STILL Doomed” articles.
Well, only in the sense that we’re ALL doomed… eventually. 😉
By a strange and spooky coincidence I’m wearing at this exact moment a tee shirt I was given my a mate which has on the front “I was a Mac user when Apple was doomed”
I wear it with pride.
They are like the losing gambler who keeps doubling his previous stake. Sooner or later, the law of averages will (he thinks) get him back to even.
That’s the reason Apple is building a ‘spaceship.”
Thanks for the comic relief. At the start of slogging through taxes etc… Needed a good laugh. Poor woman obviously in need of some attention.
Or needed to meet a deadline…
One thing I have noticed, is that no analysts are saying that competition besting Apple could be there downfall. The only problems anyone can foresee for Apple are internal problems. That is not a bad place to be.
Typical writer incapable of coming up with orgial ideas resorting to wishful thinking. Why this of obsession with destroying Apple?
Apple has a long history of shying away from ‘orgial ideas’; they oppose overt sexuality and leave Android to engage in ‘orgial’ activities.
Yes, but she’s got a great ass.
5. Tim Cook could secretly be the leader of an impending alien invasion. There’s no proof that he is, but also no proof that he ISN’T.
6. Apple’s cash reserves could be destroyed by a plague of locusts after they mistake it for delicious leaves.
That sound plausible.
“There’s no proof that he is, but also no proof that he ISN’T.”
what about that big saucer thing he’s building?
financial analysts can conjecture a lot more with less….
Not to mention his weird accent. Sounds out of this world to me. Is he an alien or an android though? No one really knows.
Where—obviously not on this planet—do they find these people? And, do they get paid? If so, where do I sign up?
Please .. If u find out let me know!!!!
Didn’t they all say this 3 years ago that Apple could never grow much more and since then they have doubled again.. So Yes it can keep growing
Oh brother. Isn’t it ever thus people think Apple has reached its “apogee” at every step of their successful progress? They attempt to cast Apple, to their folly, as a regular company and not one Steve Jobs infused. These people are terminally clueless. Unfortunately that tendency to misunderstand the Apple phenomenon effects all us stockholders,
5. Apple could start eliminating features, dumbing down apps, dropping apps, adding unintuitive features, delivering underpowered Macs, eliminating memory upgrades, forcing everybody into iCloud whether they want it or not, adding fugly interfaces, spending money to advance Tim Cook’s progressive agenda, etc.
Oh wait!
This is laughable. It’s exactly what we heard a couple years ago, indeed they started to claim it almost as fact back then and similar doom premonitions, apparently spotted in their tea leaves, were made a few years before that and then spotted in their crystal balls before that. I won’t even get into the great 2001 sheep entrails debarcle.
Most of them are on to hyena entrails nowadays
Bullcrap! Apple’s product are not anywhere near saturating the market.
Ah someone realizing that Apple is impervious to the constant flow of FUD from jouranalists and analists.
5. Water turns to gas!
Apple pretty much started falling apart a day after quarterly earnings were announced. That was pretty much the beginning of the end. Anyone could easily tell that Apple’s main weakness was its financial strength. Apple is suffering from the balloon effect. You blow up a balloon enough and poof! it’s all gone.
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*yawn*
These anal-it’s should show some restraint, it’s not even (FUD) Friday. 😀
The obvious answer is for Apple to reduce it’s dependence on the iPhone by canceling all future development, downsizing all those unneeded staff, and instead buy phones from Samsung, rebadging them and selling them exclusively through vendors who would be free to improve the user experience by adding any and all software of their choosing…
Blazingly stupid?
Mind-numbingly ignorant?
Utterly hypocritical?
All three?
Dooooooomed!! Ahhhhhhh!!!!
I miss the Apple Death Watch.