Stagnant sales with a much more expensive smartphone, i don‘t think anybody wouldn‘t live to have the same „problem“.
Service revenues would get boosted by lower prices if units sold increase.
Cook is doing a fine balance of prices, sales, services. Very successful so far. Yet I'm afraid the only way is down from here.
Plus whatever device that comes out for AR will be interesting. Apple still continues to understand strategy and the technology landscape better than any other company.
So isn't the next step a "cheaper" iphone ? (or a better second hand market 'certified by' Apple)
If anything the best new product update this cycle has been the watch but its killer app is not yet released nor has a set in stone date (one point ekg)
It's convenient that while I'm driving I can interact with different apps like maps and switch to music or play it at the same time without touching the phone. Youtube Music lets me play any song I can think of in the car via mobile data.
I'm not clear on what exactly Apple services are, but it's not enticing to Android users to sacrifice access to the biggest video music media entertainment content on the web.
To me the Google products have become a tether to the Android platform, and Google Search combined with Google Voice is something you just can't do well if you are not Google and don't have near monopoly of those service sectors. Search, Streaming Music, Youtube (theres nothing of this sort from Apple). I just don't see how Apple can catch up now since Google has been winning this game forever.
Since we’re trading anecdotes, I know exactly no one switching to Android, and a number of people who have switched back to iOS in the last couple years. Of the few Android users in my circle of family and friends, about half are just sticking with it because of stubbornness, I think, not because they really deeply value anything it provides.
Apple completely dominated the high end smartphone market and won’t be dethroned by Google’s latest foray into having multiple weirdly named internal competing services that collect as much of your data as they can before will being renamed, merged, and ultimately killed off in a few years. No thanks.