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Good News: Apple no longer is the iPhone company
When the iPhone grew to represent more than 50% of Apple’s revenue, critics worried that the company was overly dependent on the device…
Apple is poised to lose lots of iPhone users if it keeps ignoring the mid-range consumer
It’s no secret that the iPhone’s average selling price has creeped up over the past several years….
Apple charts the future of private, premium tech – alone
Leading up to its 30th Annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Apple is channeling its unique hardware savvy to create a future that is powerful, premium, accessible to everyone, and private to yourself…
Apple to pull iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models, raise entry prices in sharp India reset
Apple will stop selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in India and move out of small stores and outlets…
The secret of Apple’s success in selling premium tech as an affordable luxury
Apple’s hardware designs, software, icons, marketing, retail strategy, and branding…
Apple struggles with iPhone sales in India, the world’s largest untapped market
With 1.3 billion consumers, the country is the world’s biggest untapped tech market…
Did Apple make a big mistake by canceling the 4-inch iPhone SE?
Did Apple make a key mistake by pivoting towards the luxury high margin smartphone market by sacrificing the iPhone SE line?
No one wants a ‘cheap’ iPhone: Apple sells premium products
Apple, for better or worse, is a premium products manufacturer…
Apple outgrew unit sales
In 2014, Apple management surprised many by announcing they were not going to disclose Apple Watch unit sales…
Has Tim Cook lost control of the Apple narrative?
Apple Inc. has found itself in the strange position of having joined the ranks of those companies…
Morgan Stanley: Apple’s services will grow to over $100 billion per year in 2023
Katy Huberty from Morgan Stanley has taken a deep-dive into Apple’s services market segment…
Apple lost the perception game in the short term
It has been almost a week since technology giant Apple reported its fiscal fourth quarter results…
Proof of Apple’s pricing power wasn’t enough to assuage the market
One of the unsung heroes of the stock market so far this year had been Apple…
How Apple is losing its grip on India
Software engineer Samee Alam was ready to take the big leap and buy an iPhone in this week’s Diwali festival sales…
Apple’s focus is not iPhone market share, it’s on dominating the higher end of its markets
Big companies attract big attention, and none quite as much as Apple…
Apple thrives by going upscale: It is Economics 101
It is Economics 101. The best business model involves strong sales and high profit margins…
Apple Music continues to take share from Spotify
Apple’s ability to promote its own services like Apple Music, iCloud, and Apple Pay…
Apple doesn’t do low budget
Apple Inc. proved one thing this year: It can charge whatever it wants for iPhones…
The myth of Apple’s impossibly difficult (yet super easy) hardware business
Every time Apple has entered a new market segment, the wailing sirens of punditry have scrambled…
Apple learns a lucrative lesson
Last year, Apple introduced a trio of new iPhones…
CIRP: Apple’s sold 3 million HomePods for 6% market share in United States
The installed base of smart speakers in the United States, including the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and HomePod…
Competition is shifting to the high end
When I started covering the consumer electronics industry, I was struck by the fact the vast majority of players…
Facebook employees forced by management to drop their preferred iPhones for Android phones
Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, is forcing an untold number of Facebook employees…
Porsche chooses Apple Car Play over Android Auto because of Google’s rampant data collection demands
So much for “Do No Evil.” As part of the agreement an automaker would have to enter with Google, certain pieces of data must be collected and mailed back to Alphabet Inc…
Pornhub reveals iOS vs. Android porn preferences
September means the beginning of sweater weather, the return of Pumpkin Spice Lattes and the launch of a new iPhone…
Apple’s iPhone juggernaut continues with record-breaking sales while Android peddlers fight over scraps
As a whole, Android sells far more devices. The vast majority of those devices are typically…
Analyst: Apple stock back to $130 by end of 2015
Apple was hit hard by the markets’ selloff in recent weeks…
Samsung phones are for old people
Samsung has ploughed billions into promoting its high-end phones…
Apple iPhone has huge advantage over Android phones as carriers nix subsidies
Apple’s iPhones tend to attract users in higher income brackets…
Apple’s blockbuster earnings defy the ‘conventional wisdom’
There is an awful lot to celebrate in Apple’s recent performance…
McCourt: Apple Pay to drive up iPhone market share
The year 2014 has been a very good year for Apple, 2015 looks even better…
Apple’s secret weapon: Leverage
Put on your big boy pants and accept the agreement…
How Apple took over the only segment of the PC market that still matters
In recent years, most attention has been focused on the eye-popping numbers …
With plastic, 32-bit Galaxy S5, Samsung not shooting for the high end, but what will Apple do?
Samsung’s announcement of the Galaxy S5 could hardly have been more low key…
Missing the point of Apple’s China Mobile deal; some still cannot grasp Apple’s basic business strategy
Certain people seem not to have quite grasped Apple’s basic business strategy…
