“Traditional smartphones — generally considered devices with a screen size under five inches — continue to dominate the market, and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is reaping the rewards,” Tim Brugger writes for The Motley Fool. “As of November 2015, Apple commanded a whopping 43.1% of the U.S. smartphone market, and even more impressively, over 90% of industry profits.”
“As shareholders are well aware, however, this market dominance hasn’t prevented Apple stock from feeling some pressure,” Brugger writes. “Apple shares are down over 5% year-to-date, and that’s following what many investors would consider a mixed 2015. Worse still, the aforementioned 43.1% market share that Apple holds is actually down 1% compared to August 2015 data. But if the holiday season is any indication, Apple’s saving grace could prove to be its iPhone 6s Plus, thanks to its 5.5-inch screen.”
“According to data from Flurry Analytics, phablets had a great holiday season led by the iPhone 6s Plus. Even as the number of “old school” smartphone and tablet activations declined on a percentage basis between Dec. 19 and Christmas Day compared to the 2014 holiday season, phablet sales skyrocketed,” Brugger writes. “In fact, the number of phablet activations didn’t just grow compared to 2014, it exploded. A full 27% of all mobile device activations over the holidays were phablets, more than twice that of 2014, and nearly seven times as many than just two years ago. And with 49% of all new mobile devices coming from Apple, it’s clear that the iPhone 6s Plus played a critical role in the success of this category.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s flagship iPhone, the iPhone 6s Plus, leads the way!
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Speed Shootout: Apple iPhone 6s Plus destroys Google Nexus 6P, Samsung S6 Edge+, Sony Z5 Premium, Microsoft Lumia 950 XL – December 21, 2015
AnandTech reviews Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus: Editors’ Choice Gold Award – November 2, 2015
One month with the Apple iPhone 6s Plus: Smartphone usage without compromise – October 30, 2015
“Apple shares are down over 5% year-to-date, and that’s following what many investors would consider a mixed 2015.”
Let me fix that for you.
““Apple shares are down over 5% year-to-date, and that’s following a unbelievable record setting year where Apple made more money than any company ever. Envious, greedy, backstabbing investors are still making shit up about Apple’s demise.”
Supposedly Apple shares have been down due to poor future growth potential. That reason can be used for any financial quarter and shareholders will simply have to take it. Unfortunately, I see no way Apple can get around that BS. If Apple doesn’t speak up then the company will continue to be stepped on like a cockroach. If investors choose to believe analysts then that’s their decision. It’s just bad luck to be a loyal Apple shareholder as far as company value is concerned. Sure, I’m looking long-term, but I don’t see Wall Street changing its attitude against Apple unless Apple does something really drastic like a huge acquisition that really excites the big investors.
There is no practical reason for Apple to have been down all of 2015 when other tech companies soared in share gains. I keep comparing and Apple compared very well against F.A.N.G. and likely exceeded them in many fundamentals. Apple simply has none of Wall Street’s mindshare and that MAY be Tim Cook’s fault.
I think that is a very mature assessment. Even your reflection on Cook I can fully accept over and above all the bigoted and delusional criticism he gets from the idiot faction. Apple have got to that place where a change of tack and some lateral thinking is increasingly necessary as their traditional marketplace starts to offer limited growth potential and new variations on the present theme can’t generate new growth to replace that of the iPhone. With CarPlay, HomeKit and ApplePay they have indeed been pushing parameters and even new ground but certainly (even if unfairly) the market wants more so I think Apple will have to take some hard decisions over the next few years. However unlike their imaginary visions of greatness with Google where the Glass has soon conveniently been forgotten for the latest analyst fan fad the, Google car, Apples plans always get underrated until they are proven successes so a high profile move in the short term may be as punishing on its shares as it is likely to be beneficial. So Cook and management generally have potentially a tough period ahead despite all the excellent product sales performance for the most part.
(0_o) Apple shares are down over 5% year-to-date, and that’s following what many investors would consider a mixed 2015
Rubbish. Apple’s 2015 was nothing short of brilliant yet again.
I’ll deal with his questionable definition of the iPhone 6 Plus as a ‘phablet’. If it is, then fine. For my large hands, the iPhone 6 Plus is entirely practical. But I’ll point out that there are far larger Android phablets on the market, to the point of laughable absurdity:
iPhone fans have short memories. It was only a short time ago that they were saying Android phones were getting too big it was absurd. Photos like the one you show also being uploaded in order to make Note users look stupid, even though it was smaller than the iPhone 6+. In those days phones larger than iPhones were too big for the pocket or to use one-handed. They were not even useful compared to the tiny iPhones at the time. Fast forward to 2016, Apple were forced to bring out larger phones, they do not look stupid any more, they fit in pockets and are very useful. Strange that.
Talking of laughable absurdities, yes there are larger Android Phablets available, some people find those useful, so useful tablet sales are in sharp decline. The real absurdity is that the iPhone 6S plus has a relatively low res 5.5″ screen and small battery, yet it is bigger and heavier than most if not all Android Phablets of the same screen size. The Note series has been and still is the leader in the Phablet field, it has a bigger, better screen than iPhone yet is more compact and lighter is that absurd?
Wow! Your life is SO empty that you spend time coming here to talk to people who don’t like you about products you don’t like.
BTW – the meta-point above all others is that ALL Androcrap phones are largely just copies of the iPhone. A few points of differentiation don’t change that.
As far as I am aware this is an open forum, not just for those who like iPhones and Apple products. In the time when I used iPhones but was frustrated by the size and argued for bigger iPhones, I was chastised for bringing up just what I mentioned above and was 100% correct, as time proved. This is why I posted in reply to the hypercritical and ignorant comment that was made. It is the iPhone 6s plus that is too big and heavy for the screen size and it is not wrong to criticise Apple for that. If you cannot stand criticism of Apple products on an Apple forum it is you that should stay away,
iPhone fans have short memories. It was only a short time ago that they were saying Android phones were getting too big it was absurd.
That would be me. I’ve frequently illustrated my point. I find the obsession of gigantic phablets in Asia to be particularly bizarre.
Photos like the one you show also being uploaded in order to make Note users look stupid, even though it was smaller than the iPhone 6+
Clearly NOT.
…the tiny iPhones at the time
Again, NOT. I still have a cheap old Nokia kicking around, if you want actual ‘tiny’.
they fit in pockets and are very useful
You lost me there. I personally would never put a 6S Plus in my pocket. I definitely would put the smaller 6S in a pocket.
The real absurdity is that the iPhone 6S plus has a relatively low res 5.5″ screen and small battery…
WTF are you attempting to pull? 2208×1242 pixel res on the 6S Plus, higher than 1080p. The weight of the 6S Plus IS battery!
If anyone is still reading this sub-thread after the above ‘absurdities’, here is Anandtech’s detailed comparison of other phone’s displays to the iPhone 6S series:
http://anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-review/13
As for the Note:
– Stylus, like my olde Palm IIIc. No thanks.
– Absurdly huge phablet display. “Can you see me now?” “No.”
– Android OS, the single most dangerous mobile OS on the planet.
– It’s a Samsung, the court determined Apple ripoff crooks.
It was a pleasure ripping apart your ‘absurdities’.
Small phones do have their place, the point is that so do larger phones. This is something that a great number of commentors here and elsewhere denied and vehemently chastised anyone who dared to question them. They were wrong and your photo was one one the so called joke photos they banded around.
I said relatively low res-screen as it is compared to most comparable phones. The battery is also smaller. The point you conveniently dodge is that despite having a smaller, lower res screen and battery, the iPhone in questionis actually bigger and heaver in some cases by a wide margin. Hide from the fact all you want the iPhone Phablet is the porker of them all relative to screensize and the hardware is utilizes.
I have read the anandtech review, while being Apple biased it still concludes there is no difference in screen quality yet I repeat many of the Android competition have bigger screens in smaller, lighter packages. I would also add that in almost every review comparison I have read, which is most of them, the Amoled screens used by Samsung and others come out better. The same reviews also generally rate the Note as the best Phablet too and if you take the criteria used by Apple when suing Samsung for apparantly copying iPhones years ago, Apple has the biggest copier in recent years.
your photo was one one the so called joke photos they banded around.
No. There are quite a few photos of that Note on the net. I can post ACTUAL joke photos if you want. But don’t actually care any more. You’re just here to be a PITA with no data, no links to data, just the usual vagaries, nonsense, avoidance of the issue of security, Note Note Note. I get the idea. Then you end with the laugh: Apple has the biggest copier in recent years, again with no references, data, point at all except to come here and misery monger at any cost. I also notice you didn’t bother to read or refer to the link I provided. It’s all too 💤💤💤
Even if you occasionally nick a legitimate commenter, your troll detector seems in fine working order. I feel certain that in a Middle Eastern bazaar you’d be able to sniff out the more unsavoury comestibles, and warn away unwary tourists.
Sometimes I wonder if the world has gone mad, or if it’s just me…I’ll say something off the cuff, and then hear metaphorical machine guns going off because I spoke out of turn and wasn’t wearing my burkha.
I’m familiar enough with personalities and their interactions to know that mine is one that puts up the hair on the backs of ‘Relational’ personalities. (That term, for those interested, does NOT imply ‘good’ relations). In turn, I’ve learned how to enjoy the clashes. Then there are the haters and destroyers. I enjoy creatively responding if not going after them directly. Again the goal his as much amusement on my part as removing their FUD masks.
All of this fits into the male persona, something I polished while living with my four brothers and occasionally corrosive parents. Meanwhile, my sister (sister-in-law actually) is the mistress of being kind and helpful while being gently assertive. She and I get along wonderfully and I envy her skills.
As ever, I enjoy your insights. I hope your new adventures are going well! <> 😀
I’ve sometimes wondered about sex distribution in family units and how that affects child development and, later, gender expression. You’ve provided a data point that favours cluster testosterone conditioning. Mine fosters estrogen conditioning. Vive la différence!
I can always backup my comments if necessary. I do not need to about size they are quoted everywhere and the iPhones 6S plus is big and heavy compared with its competitors, fact or do you deny it? I do not need to list every reviewer that ranks the Note or other Android Phablets above the iPhone, they are out their in abundance unless of course you only read Apple press.
As for Apple being the biggest copier or follower, just look at IOS 7, 8 and 9 large parts of which were the addition of functionality Android has had for years. Just look at large screen phones Apple and their fans ridiculed those then followed the way Samsung and others led.
I do not have to avoid security, even in the US IOS is second only to Max OSX in the number of vulnerabilities.(http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/31/software-with-the-most-vulnerabilities-in-2015-mac-os-x-ios-and-flash/)
Apple users, especially IOS ones have been in denial on this for years. At least I acknowledge Android is not perfect (nor is any software or OS) and can do things to minimise the risk!
Lastly, did you not read what I said, I read that article when it came out and again when you posted it and have already replied to you on it above. In virtually every comparison of an iPhone against an equivalent Amoled Android phone the latter comes out on top. DisplayMate said “the Galaxy Note 5 has best smartphone display ever tested” http://www.cnet.com/news/galaxy-note-5-has-best-smartphone-display-ever-tested-says-displaymate/
Perhaps that is why Apple after again ridiculing them will follow and put them on iPhones.
I like some of your points. But this isn’t going to develop into a discussion. I have more thoughtful things to do. Enjoy your Galaxy Note 5.
Couple of things.
First iPhone ASP is going to increase again, on the back of declining iPhone 5S sales, the 2nd tier iPhone shift to the $100 higher priced (compared to the iPhone 5S at launch)6 series and the shift to the higher priced iPhone 6S Plus. While WS continues to debate unit sales of the iPhone total revenue is going to increase respectively, and that’s much more important than unit sales.
Now consider that China sales of iPhones are up 30% YoY, a 10% decline in North America and the Euro zone (flat everywhere else) results in another unit sales record (78 – 80 Million units).
Like the Mac, while industry sales may be in decline, iPhone sales continue to grow.
Will Apple’s new trade-in plan appreciably affect sales and reduce churn?