The Macalope has long say that Apple is the Schrödinger ’s CT of technical school companies , it is either a achiever or a failure depending on your perception of it .
And how fast you have to be intimate out an clause about it .
Despite a decade and a half of fearsome warnings about iPhones being snuffed out of existence by Android phones , Apple still does pretty well in the smartphone market place , peculiarly in the U.S. The other hombre have had a scrap of a sentence of it recently . According to Counterpoint Research , fall off Android phone sale mean the iPhone shoot 55 percent market share in the U.S. in the 2nd calendar tail of 2023 . To be fair , iPhone shipments fell , too , but at a much small rate than those of Android phones .
Counterpoint ’s director of North American Research Jeff Fieldhack further suggest it might not get considerably this year for Android OEMs .
” Weakness is likely to uphold through the beginning of Q3 2023 , but stronger iPhone 15 demand could offset weakness across Android . ”
That ’s … not majuscule . And what ’s even not greaterer is that mart part is n’t even as important as profit contribution . It ’s nice to sell 500 things for a $ 1 profit each . It ’s even dear to betray one thing for a $ 1,000 dollar profit .
This , of course , does n’t mean Apple is n’t still get dreadful admonition about its iPhone batting order from what are surely just masses looking out for the ship’s company ’s best interests .
“ Apple require a foldable iPhone soon or iPhones wo n’t be worth buying”(Tip atomic number 8 ’ the antler toDaring Fireball . )
Because all anyone is buy are those $ 1,800 and up foldable phones from other vendors . So many of them that … Android sales are drastically down .
No one say it had to make mother wit . The Macalope does n’t make out why no one tell that , but plainly no one said it .
Also , not to rain down on yourTrip Chowdhry fan fictionbut , if you will recall , Apple had the original foldable smartphone . Aherm .
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And at the sentence it was described as a enceinte problem so please make up your minds .
Counterpoint does n’t really seem to see the trouble with as much urgency . In a report issued just years before the one above , it said foldaway phones were currently a niche product , but the market could reach $ 100 million by 2027 assuming a foldaway iPhone comes out in 2025 .
Senior psychoanalyst Jene Park said , “ In the long term , we are waiting to see what Apple does . ”
You do n’t say .
grow out iPhones are n’t the only Apple ware line that ’s been make out better than the competition lately . According to IDC , while the PC marketplace fall overall in the 2d calendar quarter of 2023 , Mac salesgrewby 10.3 pct . Some of this is because Apple had a bad second quarter in 2022 . Also , Apple ’s share is still relatively modest , just 6.8 percent .
And , hey , they should n’t be adjudicate to compete against anyone . They should just be trying to be the bestApplethey can be .
Oh , good-for-naught , forgot we were talking about capitalist economy . Never mind . coin that . Crush your enemies . labour them into the river Despair so they can be swept into the Sea of Misery . And maybe get feed by some sharks , too .
serve it to say , that despite the fevered dreams of some , Apple ’s going to bejust hunky-dory .
It ’s uncanny that you have to say that about a $ 3 trillion company but here we are .
