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A few ways you can call bluff on inflated Apple fanboy-ism is by listening to wall street and watching Apple stock. Analysts aren't pleased with the 5G miss, an
by writepub 7y ago
A few ways you can call bluff on inflated Apple fanboy-ism is by listening to wall street and watching Apple stock. Analysts aren't pleased with the 5G miss, and Apple stock has certainly suffered, at least a bit, for it.
Gruber could have quantified the potential opportunity size in dollars, instead of kowtowing with Apple P.R. and apologizing for the miss by blaiming an immature 5G ecosystem. Remember the mad scramble to reach 3G/4G status among providers when the iPhone 3G/4G came out? Flagship devices tend to simulate the ecosystem.
My guess: Evidence points to extremely low rates of switchover between Android <-->iOS, so even if a few 5G aficionados went the Android way, there's likely negligible impact on Apple's bottom line.
Apple still has a huge problem on its hands - that of annual declining unit sales. There's not much they can do about it, with their current pricing strategy.
- mpweiher 7y agoMaybe you can go a little more direct: Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while We dive into the many ways first-gen 5G hardware will (temporarily?) ruin phone design. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/dont-buy-a-5g-smartphone-at-least-not-for-a-while/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/dont-buy-a-5g-smartp...
- tinus_hn 7y agoApples stock price is mostly influenced by todays 100% unreliable rumor du jour and a lot of wishful thinking. I have not seen any realistic selling point for 5G and Apple doesn’t play the specs game. Why would they scramble to release a 5G phone? Also Apple focused on making their phones work for up to 5 years. Unsurprisingly as people use the phones longer they buy less new ones, hence declining unit sales.
- shard 7y agoConsumers have already bought into the marketing that 5G is the next big hot, and device makers are merely responding to consumer demand. You would be surprised at the percentage of people who would buy a 5G phone even before 5G service is available.