Crazy idea week continues on our reporting of all that ’s insane in the world of Apple . Today we see the tax return of an old classic , one which obviously never goes out of style for the mass who are permanently , congenitally out of flair . The style the Macalope is referring to is , of course , relieve oneself a lick of sentience . Just one lick ! Is that too much to ask for ? ! But … no salt lick .
Writing forBarrons , Tiernan Ray feeds us the unbearable legerity of being a big - shot psychoanalyst .
“ Apple Should Open iOS to China as Another iPhone Cut Looms , Says Rosenblatt . ”
What to do with a discredited idea from the 1990s that makes even less sense now when everyone is just give their operating systems off for free ? Why , keep recycle it . It ’ll probably be mighty finally , correct ? Or not . Whatever . Who cares ? Is this affair even on ?
“ It is in our view that an iPhone computer hardware upgrade will not bring any reward go forrader , ” conclude [ Rosenblatt Securities ’s Jun ] Zhang , arguing “ Apple should rather open up its OIS [ sic ] platform and license various versions to Formosan OEMs . ”
The Macalope does n’t usually comment on literal , but when you ca n’t import the name of a three - alphabetic character platform correctly … well , it really does n’t matter because your basic thought about licensing it has track down out of throttle on the interstate highway between Crackertown and Bananaville anyway .
Can you imagine sit down to write up your hot take and thinking “ You bang who makes a lot of money in the smartphone biz these Day ? People who graze in those sweetened licensing fees on smartphone operating systems , that ’s who . Imma save that up . ” ? No , you ca n’t . Because you still have ascendency of all of your cognitive functions . Please take this sacking full of various highly regulated hallucinogenics to continue .
accord to Zhang , Apple just faces too much competition to trade more iPhones because :
… Samsung will launch a foldable screen door smartphone and Taiwanese OEMs will launch a curved panel smartphone in 2017 …
Everyone wants garbagey gimmick earpiece with no evident exercise slip these days . That ’s where all the growth went in the market . Look around . All you see are projector speech sound , 3D earpiece and ironicmid-20th century German rotary dialsmartphones ( Portland only ) .
Apple is facing a maturation problem with the iPhone , mostly because growth in the market is difficult to encounter anywhere . But just because your alfalfa farm is n’t collapse you higher and gamey yield it does n’t intend burning it all to the background and salting the globe is the right room to go .
