Great article about how Apple is costing itself dearly by having supply chain issues, and why if you're still holding stock now is a good time to get out.
Apple keeps releasing products, and other companies keep benefiting
Quote:
It tells All Things D, "Wednesday was the $199 Kindle Fire HD’s biggest day of sales since launch and up 3x week over week."
Apple announced the iPad mini on Tuesday, so the clear suggestion is that people waited to see what Apple was releasing. Once they saw it, they opted for Amazon's less expensive option.
The Korean conglomerate's flagship Galaxy S III had four of its five best-selling weeks in the U.S. after the iPhone 5 was unveiled, Samsung told CNET.
The spike after the iPhone 5 launch suggests that consumers hung around to see what Apple had to show off, weren't impressed, and went with a Galaxy S III instead.
The Following User Says Thank You to MrMastodonFarm For This Useful Post:
I love how lame iphone 5 commercials are now. They're resorting to bragging about how your finger and thumb are proportionate to the screen? What? And bragging about breaking the laws of physics by adding more size less depth to make it "smaller".
I used to be a pretty big iPhone fan boy but since I bought a nexus 7 tablet I could see that android was progressing and innovating in ways apple hasn't in a long time. iOS seems stale and dated while android OS seems a lot more fluid, intelligent, and well designed. I would point to the folder and shortcut system as apples biggest weakness, but the fact there's only 1 button also adds unnecessary constraints on my day to day usage.
iOS 6 has served only to clutter my phone and slow it down yet it's added no real functionality. My friend has an SG3 and I'm finding myself incredibly envious of speed of the device and the android OS being "smarter".
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Brannigans Law For This Useful Post:
I love how lame iphone 5 commercials are now. They're resorting to bragging about how your finger and thumb are proportionate to the screen? What? And bragging about breaking the laws of physics by adding more size less depth to make it "smaller".
During Apple’s September iPhone 5 event they announced that the App Store had 700,000 available apps. Impressive number and one that Apple’s been banking on for years. Now, according to a report in BusinessWeek, the race for app dominance is finally neck and neck.
Quote:
Google has now declared that they too have about 700,000 available Android apps in Google Play.
Scott Forstall and John Browett are the casualties for an underperforming Apple.
Forstall was the mobile software chief, who has had a recent string of misses and not quite hits such as Siri, Maps, and really the iOS6 operating system for users who spend much of the device capacity and use dedicated to listening to music (music player and way the cloud now works is simply terrible IMO and many many others opinions as well). The new docking/charging connector and reported incompatibilities with peoples existing docking stations and cars also went over like a ton of bricks I'd imagine. The Mobile department I think made some poor design and software decisions at a time when they were struggling to maintain market share let alone increase it.
Browett was the retail chief who takes the fall because expansion into China has been slow. That might even be kind. It has failed and has failed in many markets beyond North America and had a particularly tough time in Asia.
Be interesting to see if they can stop, well not the bleeding at this point but the slight bruising.
Great article about how Apple is costing itself dearly by having supply chain issues, and why if you're still holding stock now is a good time to get out.
This article is garbage. The company made $8 billion in revenue last quarter. The stock is under valued. People can cheer against it all they want, but the company's financials are strong, and margins are healthy. Sell away. I'll buy them.
^ Apple is a victim of their own success. Sure they're still profitable, but when you miss analysts expectations by $0.01 that will send the stock south. I think now is a good time to dump because the signals suggest they will fall short of expectations again in January which will drive the stock down further. Sell now, wait until after January and if the indicators are more positive you can buy at a lower price and watch the stock go up.
Of course had this article said Apple is the shiznit and Google and Samsung are garbage to be sold you'd be praising it, but fanboyism is fanboyism.
__________________
"Think I'm gonna be the scapegoat for the whole damn machine? Sheeee......."
This article is garbage. The company made $8 billion in revenue last quarter. The stock is under valued. People can cheer against it all they want, but the company's financials are strong, and margins are healthy. Sell away. I'll buy them.
hahahaha Under valued?? hahaha.
Ok buy away. I'm short 120 shares. If you have a margin account you will only need $21,600 to buy them.
Iphone loyalty is falling. Still insanely high but Europe numbers are concerning. Android now has 67% of the market share there, up from 51% last year. But when your the iphone being released is only catching up to the android versions that is going to happen every time.
Also these numbers are suprising. But Cook knows Apple needs to innovate, and in 2012 he increased the company’s spending on research and development (which is famously lower than that spent by Google, at $5.2 billion, and Microsoft, at $9.8 billion) by almost $1 billion, to $3.4 billion, according to Apple’s latest 10K filing.
