Let’s start with Apple’s decision that it will no longer be reporting the sales numbers of the iPhone. Given the flat annual sales of the iPhone since the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launch, the story about rising numbers no longer belonged to the actual unit sales, it belongs to the increasing margins and increasing average selling price.
If you’re going to sell success, you need bigger numbers. With the iPhone XS Plus clocking in at $1500+ in some configurations the scope for larger margins and higher selling prices is pretty much priced out the market. Hiding the iPhone numbers means that the focus can be placed on the increasing revenue from software and services, rather than hardware revenue..
Can Apple rely on revenue from services and software to replace the hardware margins? That could be a tough ask given that 59 percent of Apple’s revenue comes from the iPhone. Services is a quarter of that, at 15 percent.
What happens to Apple’s drive to increase revenue from services as it sells fewer devices? Because you still need hardware to run your bespoke services on.
Tim Cook has lifted Apple to be a trillion-dollar company. Can he keep it up with his dangerous decision to change the storyline away from the iPhone?
Lagging behind in samsung technology by almost a decade
Caleb Clark
This is what happens when your profit margins are fucked from making money off of hardware instead of software in the first place. It's as if Apple took pride in ignoring Sony, Microsoft, Google, etc.
Eli Ortiz
Who cares. Smart phones are for lemmings. Don't participate in the System's game to put a electronic leash on every user. Get the cheapest and simplest phone, let internet be the realm of Linux desktops. If you know what I mean.
I can go to a local megastore like Walmart and get one with a decent screen size for $30. $50 if I want to play Pokemon Go (it is fairly taxing on a lower end phone) What possible advantage could the latest generation of phones provide that they cost more than a decent computer?
This has to be bait but god damn if it wasnt delicious and unavoidable bait
Parker Hughes
If that's carrier-subsidized, it doesn't count, as the actual cost is hidden in your monthly bill. We're talking about paying upfront. But even then, $1500 is still ridiculous, you can get very good phones for about $200.
Kevin Clark
Actually that price is for a burner phone. Replace the SIM card with the one from your current phone and you can start using it straight away. The only subsidy lies in whatever your current plan is
You just tell everything is needed to know you are a kikess whore. You believe a man needs a phone to know whores like you in Tinder. WRONG, real man don't play stupid games texting worthless whores like you. Texting is for retarded zombies playing cunt's games.
I really don't blame you for being jealous period after all, I was making up to $11,000 a day drawing with crayons for Hillbillies… Being flown around the country and hobnobbing with celebrities… And here you sit watching anime and playing video games… Yeah, jealousy suits you very well…
A: NOTHING
Q: what will get you laid?
Logan Davis
What kind of retarded being are you? Do you think everybody is a pervert like you thinking about sex 24/7? Do you really think sex is the best thing? Do you really think the worth of a men is related to put his dick inside a whore? Grow up and stop watching jude TV, the propaganda and depravity got inside your head dummy. You aren't White. Aren't you?
Anthony Burgess, Malcolm McDowell, and Jess even Stanley Kubrick were all homosexual (even though Stanley Kubrick got married and had kids, but that's common in the Hollywood industry)
Do you have any heroes or Idols that aren't homosexual?
Say, Andy, I read a Clock Work Orange b4 it was made into a film
Zachary Fisher
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Lucas Lopez
You must've read it before Clockwork was one word, huh?
Liam Baker
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Brody Williams
Exactly !!! The Taiwanese idiots who made the cheap plastic case couldn't even get his name right.
Julian Gonzalez
That's right, I AIN'T buying that crap either.
Never used a 'smartphone' and never will.
Jaxson Reed
For years now, I've been saying that somebody needs to remake A Clockwork Orange, and use the ever increasing technology and fragmented breakdown of society to make it SO HARD TO WATCH, that it would go down in history as the most controversial film ever made.
Back before Robert Downey Jr got his shit together, I envisioned him as playing Alex (back in the drugged out days when he was waking up in stranger's houses, in the childrens' beds) but now he wouldn't be good at the role anymore.
You would have to find another actor who was equally as fucked up as Robert Downey Jr used to be.
Samuel White
I also read the Sheep look up,
Crappy novel, like your zz top cover, but important(unlke yor cover) .A prophetic look at the potential consequences of the escalating destruction of the Earth In a near future,
I'v also read David Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
And All of dostoevsky's novels and Faulkner's novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County,
Read and seen and studied all Shakespeare's plays And many more
Christopher Hernandez
…..and with that one silent protest…..
YOU CHANGED THE WORLD
Kevin Bailey
You basically just listed off ALL the prerequisites to homosexuality
Congratulations
Blake Garcia
Meant to say, Read all the novels mentioned in the book
Don't care too much for fantasy but Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is incredible
Bentley Howard
So well read………….
. and yet you have NO experience with women
Elijah Price
Only a low brow hillbilly would consider Dostoevsky' or Faulkner gay
the day you were reading Jonathan Strange, my ex-wife and I were fucking an absolutely GORGEOUS Russian chick, who had a body like she was out of a Terminator Movie.
6'1", wide strong shoulders, perfect hourglass figure, not an ounce of fat, and although I hate big breasts, hers worked perfectly on her frame, firm and bold, upright and proud.
She had jet black hair, cut short up the back, with sharp angled bangs that hung over one of her eyes… Her face was chiseled and she was literally super model material and I'm not exaggerating.
How'd that book work out for you?
Jaxon Rogers
I've fucked bimbos
Almost got some pregnant No way did I allow my self to get trapped with some airhead waitress
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Gabriel Ortiz
I think you misunderstood me. I didn't call Dostoevsky' or Faulkner gay….
I said YOU'RE gay
Alexander Turner
I said women, not AirHeads or Bimbo's or waitresses
Eli Green
A: ANYBODY… literally ANYBODY
Q: who can easily talk an airhead bimbo waitress into bed ?
Tyler Peterson
This is been a lot of fun but I'm getting up now and I'm starting my day… I can't believe it's past 10 already and I've just been laying here vegetating….
I've got some shit I need to take care of and I suppose I'm a bit of a procrastinator…..
Everybody have a good day and try to stay warm and tell your parents that you love them if they're still alive…..
Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I hope everybody has healthy happy wholesome holidays
Angel Hernandez
And one of these days I promise I'll take out the time and tell you the story about the Russian girl because there is a fascinating story behind it…
Trust me: it's NOT just an 'i fucked a Russian girl's story……
It's actually quite interesting and educational if you pay attention to the details you would probably end up learning a lot about yourself and life and women in general… It's actually an excellent story regarding human psychology…. And how to get what you want out of life without even asking for it
William Robinson
So everyone have a good day because I'm about to go out there into the cold and take care of some business
Jordan Kelly
You misunderstood me.
I've avoided deep meaningful relationships for shallow one, like you, because of fear of abandonment issues from childhood.
I'm assuming you enter into shallow relationships with women because of what yor mom/ sister did to you when you were 12
Thomas Cook
Ha hA I live in Ontario and Snow is falling
Justin Powell
Friendly reminder and that the business model for computer manufacturers is based on a 6 months planned obsolescence
If you purchased your computer the same day it was officially released, exactly 6 months later it would be obsolete, and come to think of it, EVERYTHING you surround yourself with in your life meets this exact same criteria
Noah Kelly
Since ZZ Top have toward the entire world, and have seen just about every possible corner, back in 1990 I asked Billy Gibbons, "…of all the places you've been, which one did you love the most?"
I'm so sowwy you perceived your mommy as having 'abandoned you'
Obviously that has had Everlasting negative effects on your existence
Let me guess… When you were 2 years old you tried walking for the first time, but you fell down…
So you've spent the rest of your life laying on your stomach crying?
Julian Gray
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Henry Myers
Never been to Ontario but I've heard really really great things about it
Nolan Allen
What the fuck is all this shitposting about?
Zachary Morris
With each passing day the functionality of smartphones is increasing, and since I use my smartphone as a portable mobile creative studio, with paid versions of Adobe Photoshop touch for Android, FL Studio mobile for Android, and the best video and animation software developed for the Dalvik platform, I can do everything you can do only I can do it better….
Not to mention the quality of the cameras has become astronomical
And you look like a douchebag chained to your obsolete box
Leo Hernandez
I bet you're planning to play Diablo Immortal on it too, you cuck.
Evan Howard
VIDEOGAMES: the point in your life where you became emotionally, socially & sexually stunted
brilliant move
Samuel Morgan
Anybody who actually knows there's a game called 'Diablo Immortal' is a sissy
Andrew Richardson
And now you know it too.
Carter Gray
ZZ Top played at the base of the Great Pyramids, they've played at America's 200th 4th of July Celebration in front of the Statue Of Liberty, they've played Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro and every place in between….
I honestly expected Billy Gibbons to say he loved Hawaii the best, but I was surprised when he told me Ontario is his favorite place….
Mason Young
Then enjoy your 5G-induced prostate cancer
Justin Rivera
the whole idea of owning a piece of technology that makes everything is just a crappy capitalist idea. You are buying this shit and still they sell services in your device and spies on you with advertising id.
It feels so convenient, that's why millions of morons buys smartphones. In my country almost every minority has latest phone. Mostly they sell these things to pajeets. good for applel.
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That's what you normalfags sound like. Change the fucking record why don't you?
you don't need to pretend that you're not a homosexual
Samuel Morales
That bullshit 'introverted ASEXUAL videogame genius' routine worked on your parents…. (for a while)
but you're not fooling us, sissy
you're a homosexual, through and through…….
Luke Smith
"Wwwaaaaaahhhhhh!!! Poor MEEE!! The world is so unfair!! The NSA is spying on me and advertisers want to sell me products!!! WWAAAAHHHHHH!!!"
Jordan Barnes
shut the fuck up you brainwashed big tech shill
I happen to like capitalism but I'm not dumb enough to use a "smartphone" either!
Michael Perez
bitch, the NSA has been monitoring EVERYTHING you've done since the day you were born.
They were monitoring EVERY landline call, every payphone, every fax machine, every radio broadcast, even Xerox Machines long before you were born.
They know EVERY keystroke you've made in your life, they know every search you've ever made.
You are NOT evading them at all….
And ADVERTISING has been part of the landscape since centuries before the first newspaper or TV set.
it always has been and it always will be
YOURE A FUCKING FOOL
Lincoln Stewart
Hahahaha haha !!! Do you have a mule and a conveyor belt powering your archaic computer, Fred Flintstone ?
Kayden Collins
"I'm not dumb enough to use a smartphone" = I'm not smart enough to use one
Tyler Collins
just an old school linux run on an old laptop without the intel backdoor
Luke Hill
I tried getting one of those phones. They don't work anymore, I think it's either 2G or 3G is no longer in service
Benjamin Miller
You have to purchase a service with some kind of local provider. I have a flip phone and I got service for it. Cheap too.
Aiden Harris
oh
Isaac Price
I can't imagine doing much image editing on a tiny phone screen. Still can't touch actual dedicated cameras.
Eli Morris
'Obsolete' as in doesn't work or 'obsolete' as in corporate peer pressure to spend more money on something new that you don't really need?
I have an old B&D coffee maker from the 70s, and it still brews fine. Does that mean I have to buy a new one made from China because corps say its "obsolete"?? What about my older plasma TV that works just fine for watching DVDs? Is that "obsolete" too?
WHO FUCKING CARES!? I use what I want!
William Richardson
at 6" with a 2560 x 1440 ppi display, it's referred to as a 'phablet', a phone/tablet combo…. It looks great….
Ryan Green
Coffee makers are certainly a moist environment where mold and bacteria are known to grow in high numbers,” germ specialist Kelly Reynolds of the University of Arizona told The Huffington Post. “Our bodies can deal with them, but at some point they'll grow to levels high enough to cause sickness.”
I don't have one, but I think they're pretty good phones, even going back to the 5 - like for a used phone you can get at a low price.
Elijah Cook
Yeah, I have one. Frankly, any phone past 5.5" starts to feel unwieldy. But it's still tiny compared to a desktop monitor.
Nathan Cook
Johnny Neptune went on another meth binge, sad.
Angel Sanders
Good luck telling YOU what an out of touch faggot you truly are while ordering food at Subway with a laptop
Camden Stewart
Good luck calling your mother, while simultaneously texting your weed man, while simultaneously telling YOU how stupid your laptop looks, all while sitting in a restaurant eating dinner.
