Apple ’s glory days are all behind it and the way you may secern is that the company is more efficient at selling iPhones than it used to be .
Wait , what ?
Writing for The Motley Fool , Natalie Walters asks“Are We Past the Golden Era of iPhone Launches?”(Tip group O ’ the antler toMickey . )
Most potential , but not for the reasons you think . The “ golden era ” of iPhone launches Walters refer to was back when citizenry lined up but actually bought fewer iPhones than they do now .
Just a few geezerhood ago , Apple ’s iPhone launching event were so democratic that the great unwashed were sleeping outside the entrepot to secure they sustain their hand on one of the fresh theoretical account the day they came out .
Now nobody buys iPhones anymore . Except for about 50 million people a quarter . But other than those people , like , no one .
But the era of camping outside Apple stores may be over .
And why is that ? Is it because people just stopped buying iPhones so there were no more line ? in reality , no ! Lines correlate to iPhone popularity for a while , but they were mostly because of Apple ’s unfitness to ramp up yield and its conflict to give out iPhones . Now Apple transport more iPhones for nursing home delivery on launch daytime and has more retail stores .
iPhone social unit gross revenue peaked in 2016 , but by then billet had already begun to diminish . Let us record a “ time automobile ” called “ a DuckDuckGo web hunting ” to see what people were saying about iPhone lines when Apple sell the most iPhones ever sell by a ship’s company named Apple .
“ Apple ploughshare on blast ; iPhone blood decidedly cool down . ”
The argument of people , blocks long at prior iPhone launching , scarce made it around the corner by the time the door opened at 8AM ET .
Well , that ’s weird ! Since iPhone line = iPhone popularity , you ’d think that 2016 would have been when you ’d have had to expect the foresightful to bribe an iPhone . It was n’t .
It should also be noted that even by the more cataclysmal estimates of Apple ’s December one-quarter , iPhone social unit sale for 2018 were down about 4 percent compared to 2016 . That ’s not unspoilt , but it ’s also not some precipitous decline .
You might have note that it has become a lot well-heeled to get your script on new iPhone models the day they launch .
Yeah , because Apple made it gentle . Not because multitude summarily stopped buying iPhones .
… there were signs of iPhone sales weakness even a year ago when Apple sell nearly a million fewer iPhones than it had in the same period a year earlier . The company assay to brush over this fact by remind investors that it had still run into a new record for quarterly iPhone revenue …
Psh ! How long does Apple think it can survive by just realise money ? !
How exactly did we reach a point where a company can be scoffed at for make more money ?
If you need more proof that the fortunate age of iPhone sales might be over …
More than just look at lines outside shop ? ! Why would we need that ? !
… count the fact that Apple is n’t cover iPhone building block sales any longer .
And then possibly also consider that no other fellowship in the smartphone business report unit sales .
iPhone sales have sure topped out , just like smartphone gross sales in general . The correlation coefficient between that and lines at Apple Stores is not causal , however .
