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iPad Sales Help 'Bail Out' Apple Amid a Continued iPhone Slide (techcrunch.com) 23
Postedby BeauHD from the would-you-look-at-that dept.
Apple reported a new June quarter revenue record of $85.8 billion, up 5 percent from a year ago, fueled largely by new iPad sales. iPad "saw the biggest category increase for the quarter, up from $5.8 billion to $7.2 billion year-over-year," reports TechCrunch. It helped counter slowed iPhone revenue, "which dropped from $39.7 billion to $39.3 billion year-on-year." From the report: In spite of a drop for the quarter, iPhone remained Apple's most important category by a wide margin, followed by service, which includes software offerings like iCloud, Apple TV+ and Apple Music. That category continued to grow, up to $24.2 billion from $21.2 billion over the same three-month period last year. Much of the iPhone slowdown can be attributed to the greater China region. Overall, the region dropped from $15.8 billion to $14.7 billion for the quarter. Canalys figures from last week show a marked decline in iPhone sales, down 6.7% from 10.4 million to 9.7 million for the quarter, Reuters reported.
The drop in Apple's third-largest region (behind the Americas and Europe) had a clear impact on the company's bottom line. The company aggressively discounted iPhone prices in China starting in May, as competition intensified from domestic rivals. The strategy resulted in strong iPhone sales that month, up close to 40% from a year prior. [...] Q3 marked the second consecutive quarter decline for global iPhone sales. The news puts additional pressure on the generative AI strategy that the company laid out at WWDC in June.
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Change for Change's Sake (Score:2)
by sinij ( 911942 )
Apple lost touch with its target demographic - which is aging and no longer excited about change. Removal of home button and a number of other recent changes are all unpopular and impacting sales. No, Apple users are not going to switch, but they will buy new phones less often.
Re:Change for Change's Sake - nah (Score:3, Insightful)
by blahbooboo2 ( 602610 )
Disagree. The iPhone performs well for a long time, and smart phones haven't created a new "must have" feature in years. The last big improvement IMHO was in low-light photography (and even that was just for photography folks). This all means its a much longer sale cycle than previously, similar to how laptops/desktops 10 years old can still run Windows 10 well.
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by dgatwood ( 11270 )
Disagree. The iPhone performs well for a long time, and smart phones haven't created a new "must have" feature in years. The last big improvement IMHO was in low-light photography (and even that was just for photography folks). This all means its a much longer sale cycle than previously, similar to how laptops/desktops 10 years old can still run Windows 10 well.
I disagree. USB-C was a must-have feature from my perspective, but only because they took away the headphone jack. But after buying one, I've found that I HATE HATE HATE Face ID. It doesn't work 1% as well as Touch ID did. The sheer number of false failures to recognize me is painful, and when doing Apple Pay payments, that makes it 1000x worse, because you're sitting there in your car with your phone out the window trying to unlock your phone with your face while it is horizontal above a credit card re
Re: (Score:3)
by sinij ( 911942 )
iPhone SE still has home button.
Re: (Score:1)
by dgatwood ( 11270 )
iPhone SE still has home button.
And Lightning. As far as I'm concerned, phones that don't provide an industry-standard way of using wired headphones aren't real phones.
Re: (Score:2)
by Stormwatch ( 703920 )
You absolutely should not charge the phone and use wired headphones at the same time. Electrocution via headphone is rare but real. [vice.com]
Re: (Score:2)
by Stormwatch ( 703920 )
I'd rather play safe. In fact, I've also heard that it's a bad idea to handle the phone at all while it's charging.
Re: Change for Change's Sake - nah (Score:2)
by ZERO1ZERO ( 948669 )
and when doing Apple Pay payments, that makes it 1000x worse, because you're sitting there in your car with your phone out the window trying to unlock your phone with your face while it is horizontal above a credit card reader, and it basically just doesn't work at all.
Youre doing it wrong and ive seen many people do this. Double click your power/apple pay button, look at your phone, choose the correct payment card, NOW, offer it to the card reader.
You appear to be offering your phone to the read
Re: Change for Change's Sake - nah (Score:2)
by unami ( 1042872 )
My experience with FaceID vs. TouchID is exactly the opposite. Personally, I had much more trouble with the latter. faceID works even with the phone at an awkward angle or when wearing sunglasses. With touch ID I very often had to try several times, regardless of how often I retrained it or which finger I used - in the end I switched to just putting in my passcode every time - that was faster and less frustrating. The only time I hate FaceID is, when I'm lying sideways on a pillow, with my face half-covered
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by Papaspud ( 2562773 )
Agree
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by diffract ( 7165501 )
I stopped using iphones because I could no longer jailbreak them. thank god android became usable by then
Re: (Score:2)
by Stormwatch ( 703920 )
Android has been "good enough" for over a decade now.
Innovate FFS (Score:1)
by backslashdot ( 95548 )
Is it worth upgrading, even for free? I hear Apple is working on a foldable
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by Stormwatch ( 703920 )
Foldable is an "innovation" that I can go without, an expensive gimmick that makes the device insanely fragile.
Innovation and Performance (Score:5, Insightful)
by darkain ( 749283 ) on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:54PM (#64676990)Homepage
For phone and tablets, there is essentially no innovation left. The formula has been essentially perfected. In terms of performance, other than higher poly count 3D games, they're also more than fast enough and have been more than fast enough for several generations for 99.9%+ of users.
And thus why companies are trying to shove AI down our throats. They're trying to FORCE "innovation" on us, to force a reason to continue "infinite growth" - this is the same sh*t TV companies tried with 3D TVs. But its just cheap gimmicks. True innovation in these markets are dead.
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Re: Innovation and Performance (Score:3)
by reanjr ( 588767 )
"The formula has been essentially perfected"
Then why do all the phones suck?
Re: (Score:2)
by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )
There is still room to improve the cameras. Sony's new sensor used in the Pixel 8 is incredible, especially in low light situations. I can take videos that only a full size sensor would have been capable of a year or two ago.
Re: Innovation and Performance (Score:2)
by fortfive ( 1582005 )
What you say is kinda true and kinda not. Itâ(TM)s just that next wave innovations are kinda sci-fi. I want my phone to be the size of a quarter and interface directly, wirelessly, with my brain.
Stepping back from that, a smaller, lighter phone with a floating display would be awesome.
Stepping back from that, lighter and smaller batteries would be awesome, also more durability.
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