Luxury brands don't drive the mainstream in any mature hardware market I can think of. Volume == power and we're already at the point where making phones more p

Luxury brands don't drive the mainstream in any mature hardware market I can think of. Volume == power and we're already at the point where making phones more powerful adds essentially no user value. The components that cost $500 to ship today are good enough already and the price is only going to go down. There's no way Apple can preserve it's unprecedented profit margins and that's why the stock is down. I didn't downvote you, by the way.