Weakened Apple slab grab sees Q1 growth slump to RECORD LOW Apple's iPad shipments into distribution have fallen faster than at any point since the slab was brought to market and yet the wheels aren't close to coming off of the fruit-emblazoned sales juggernaut. A 16.1 per cent world-wide sales crash in Q1 to 16.35 million units saw iPad market share plummet to 32.2 per cent from 46.4 …
They might have some headphones coming out soon :)
They're effectively ticking over. Their staff seem to have forgotten that cool engineering isn't important and it's what you can do with something that counts.
I don't care how something is made or what from, so long as the design doesn't suck and it does its job better than the previous version.
On many counts the newer Apple products are a failure. They're removing capability (battery replacement, disk replacement) rather than adding it.
iPod 2001
iPhone 2007
iPad 2010
Today 2014
I don't see where the pace of new product introductions is different than it was under Jobs. The only reason people have this idea that Apple has suddenly stagnated for new products in a way they didn't under Jobs is because the media gave it to them.
If it gets to fall 2015 and there is still nothing new, then I'll start to worry.
"I don't see where the pace of new product introductions is different than it was under Jobs. The only reason people have this idea that Apple has suddenly stagnated for new products in a way they didn't under Jobs is because the media gave it to them."
Oh. Yeah. The media. Of course.
And Jobs had nothing to do with that. Of course.
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Stock sat in the channel costs money, especially if it doesn't shift and then requires a price correction. Distributors don't like to carry more than four to six weeks' worth.
"Longer term, we do not believe Apple's Q1 performance points to a decline in the tablet category, despite growing pressure from larger-screen smartphones," Coulling added
so the headline is just flamebait for the Fruity Haters then?
"Cupertino had more luck with Mac shipments, bouncing 4.3 per cent to 4.1m, which helped keep it on top of the global PC market."
On top? Global PC market? Nice try, but the subsequent sleight-of-hand, smoke-and-mirrors juggling of terminology - PC / desktop / client / desktop / tab - used quite, um, "selectively" doesn't fool anyone who can keep on top of numbers. (*)
(*) Iit probably fools some "creatives". But they already like iShiny, so why bother?
percentages and numbers
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