Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand

jnemesh said:
Yes, but more and more are rejecting even spending $600 on a new phone and opting to buy lower end models, which puts a significant crimp in Apple's profitability. Now that the news has broken that Apple intentionally cripples older phones...well, this wont end up benefiting Apple's shareholders. *It just works...slower.
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I don't think that's the case. A lot of people do buy cheaper phones, but both Apple and Samsung still sell 10s of millions of their high-end units per year. It's more that smart phone adoption is hitting/has hit critical mass and the explosive growth that used to happen is slowing down.
 
Megaslug said:
But them I am THAT guy - I recently got a new laptop from work and I'm still putting the protective sheet in between the keyboard and display when I close it up. :LOL:
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I wish the people I support at work would take better care of their laptops.
I just finish a laptop rollout to the large group in my company.
The old laptops where 3-4 years old and are all heavily used including travel for most users.

Some of the returned laptops barely looked used.
Others looked like used they used the keyboard as a dinner plate, and others looked like their cat slept on the open keyboard every night. Don't even want to touch them.
Even worse, some looked like they had been used as a puck in a hockey game, with scrapes, dents and cracks in the case.

I still have an old mechanical IBM keyboard at home that I use every day, in almost new condition after almost 20 years.
When it starts looking dirty, I just pull the keys off, clean them, and put them back on. Looks like new again.
 
Derangel said:
I don't think that's the case. A lot of people do buy cheaper phones, but both Apple and Samsung still sell 10s of millions of their high-end units per year. It's more that smart phone adoption is hitting/has hit critical mass and the explosive growth that used to happen is slowing down.
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I seem more people using their existing phones as long as possible rather than spending big $$ on a new one.
 
nutzo said:
I seem more people using their existing phones as long as possible rather than spending big $$ on a new one.
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Yeah. Modern phones have very quickly reached the point where they're "good enough" for most people, even over the long term. High-end smartphones really don't offer a ton to the average user anymore. I could easily see people keeping modern phones until the battery up and dies before getting something new and being perfectly happy. Basically I see smartphones becoming line general desktops, devices that are used until they're no longer usable.
 
Zepher said:
not sure what you are trying to say.
Apple sold 90 million phones last quarter, 30 million of them were the X model.
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What I am trying to point out, is that even 30 million of the X was a disappointment. Apple's shine is getting dull, their products don't "just work" anymore, and between skyrocketing pricing on their flagship products and lawsuits about them degrading performance (undisclosed) on their old ones, people are going to start moving away from the iPhone. And without the iPhone, Apple is in serious trouble.
 
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