PnbxNSt95RbDXSGgzrdz/2ff70796-5f81-4639-a114-9954b83b4180.jpg/r0_0_1654_1051_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg' alt='Watch Wrecked Online Forbes' title='Watch Wrecked Online Forbes' />Phone Death Watch. CUPERTINO, California January 2. Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2. December 2. 6, 2. Phone unit sales of 7. Apple could sell 7. Phones this quarter if KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo is correct. That would mean only modest or even negative growth for Apples largest segment. It could also represent an important shift for the Cupertino tech giant, as the i. Phone has not experienced an annual sales decline in any quarter since its debut. Salvatore Sam Mattera, Motley Fool, 1. November 2. 01. 5If many of AT Ts subscribers take the company up on the offer, or if the trend away from smartphone subsidies continues, Apples i. Phone business could come under pressure in the coming quarters. Salvatore Sam Mattera, Motley Fool, 7 December 2. If Google is effective in undermining consumers dependence on carrier subsidies, Apple shareholders should be very concerned. Salvatore Sam Mattera, Motley Fool, 1. November 2. 01. 3. Apples struggles with the i. Phone 5 appeared just shortly after the phones launch. That event coincided almost perfectly with Apples all time high. Want to see this technique in action Watch Amanda Palmers Art of Asking TED Talk. During the talk, Palmer discusses the importance of making eye contact while. Steve Jobs was legendary for knowing what he wanted and leaning on his designers until he got it. But according to a new book on the history of the iPhone, he. Although the i. Phone 5 has sold well its the worlds single best selling phone, it failed to live up to the expectations of optimistic Wall Street analysts. Salvatore Sam Mattera, The Motley Fool, 9 July 2. Apple centric blog Mac. Rumors posted images of what appears to be Apples next i. Phone. Although they remain unverified, if they are legitimate, Apple shareholders should be concerned. The images show a phone identical in size and shape to the i. Phone 5. And, despite whatever other features Apple plans to implement, such a phone could fall far short of sales expectations. Continuing to cling to a smaller form factor could lead to sluggish sales. Salvatore Sam Mattera, The Motley Fool, 2. A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fgrrlscientist%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F09%2FscreengrabSquare.jpg' alt='Watch Wrecked Online Forbes' title='Watch Wrecked Online Forbes' />June 2. For a time, the smartphone market was a two horse race. Now, that is no longer the case. In addition to competition from Samsung Galaxy lineup, Apple has to compete with HTCs One. The latest news and headlines from Yahoo News. Get breaking news stories and indepth coverage with videos and photos. E00000578-4554570-image-a-8_1496544221360.jpg' alt='Watch Wrecked Online Forbes' title='Watch Wrecked Online Forbes' />Theres also Googles cheap yet powerful Nexus 4, and LGs Optimus G. Sonys Xperia Z has received rave reviews in the UK, and Motorola is widely rumored to be working on a revolutionary new X phone. The smartphone market is becoming more competitive than ever. Salvatore Sam Mattera, Motley Fool, 2. April 2. 01. 3. A year ago, the i. Phone was widely considered to be the best phone on the market. Today, that is far from true. There are a number of handsets powered by Android that are as good or better than Apples i. Phone Samsungs Galaxy S3 and S4, LGs Optimus G, and HTCs One. Theres also Googles own Nexus 4, which lacks 4. G connectivity, but costs less than half the price of an i. Phone 5. Salvatore Sam Mattera, Motley Fool, 1. April 2. 01. 3. My concern is after this i. Phone 6. You cant see the reason for upgrading. Its a huge jump in terms of the size. Everybody wants bigger screens and they delivered that. Going forward in smart phones its going to be incremental improvements. You cant make it much thinner and lighter. Henry Blodget, Yahoo Finance, 2. January 2. 01. 5After this big upgrade cycle runs its course, in other words, I think annual i. Phone sales will shrink, especially if Apple persists in charging 8. And I dont think any other product will ever be nearly as profitable for Apple as the i. Phone which accounts for an estimated 7. Apples profits. Henry Blodget, Yahoo Finance, 1. September 2. 01. 4. If Apple continues to pursue its current pricing and maximize short term profit strategy, it may continue to increase its profits for the next couple of years. Black. Berry and Nokia grew earnings for a couple of years after some analysts began seeing the writing on the wall. But Apple will also continue to lose platform and ecosystem share in most of the world. Apple fans can talk all they want about how Apple is like BMW, but in a couple of key competitive respects, it isnt. And if the gadget platform market behaves the way other platform markets have think Windows, Apple and its fans may come to regret this short term thinking in the end. Henry Blodget, Business Insider, 1. November 2. 01. 3. Five years ago, when Apple introduced the i. Phone, it had the market to itself. Apple was so far ahead of its competitors that, for the next three years, the i. The Little Troll Prince Full Movie Online Free more. Phone was by far the best phone available. But in the last two years, several things have changed 1 Apples competitors have caught up The i. Phone is no longer obviously the best phone on the market. Apples competitors are now selling their excellent i. Phone competitors for much less than Apple is selling the i. Phone, allowing them to capture the extraordinary growth in emerging markets. Another smartphone platform, Googles Android, has taken over the world, rendering Apples i. OS a niche platform in many markets Henry Blodget, Business Insider, 1. Sep 2. 01. 3Apple has made a number of small missteps over the past few years that, combined with some adverse market trends and the death of Steve Jobs, have led to Apples stock getting clobbered. Weve described many of these factors in detail A gradual loss of supremacy in the smartphone market relatively slow innovation and new product rollouts that allowed competitors to catch upA decision not to launch a lower price i. Phone that is affordable in emerging markets, where the hyper growth in the smartphone industry has migrated in the past few years. A decision to protect profit margins at the expense of market share, pricing, and aggressive investment in future products. In the tablet market, the abandonment of the best price AND best product combination that made the i. Pad the only viable tablet choice in the first couple of years now, other excellent tablets are cheaperRelatively weak offerings in apps and services, which have allowed Google and other competitors to gain stronger footholds in mobile. Taking too big a cut of app and content revenue, which has prompted some developers to try to find ways to avoid the i. OS ecosystem. None of these by itself was a big issue. But, together, they added up to a stock that got ahead of itself in 2. Phone profitability, followed by a severe margin compression that caused the stock to get cut in half. Henry Blodget, Business Insider, 2. May 2. 01. 3. Meanwhile, the competition at the high end of the smartphone market, where Apple once dominated the field, has become much more intense. And Apples premium productthe i. Phone 5is no longer considered by some to be the best product on the market. Unless Apple can firmly re establish the i. Phones superiority, which does not look likely to happen anytime soon, the company may face increasing pressure to improve the price value proposition for this product, too. And that might be devastating for Apples profit margin, which is currently extraordinarily high for a hardware company. Henry Blodget, Business Insider, 1. February 2. 01. 3. For most of the past five years, Apple has led the world in the following key areas. In the past couple of years, however, Apple has lost its lead. And in some areas, it has actually fallen behind Smartphones. Tablets. Pricing. Gadget market share. Cloud based services and apps. In all of these areas, Apple has lost a once dominant edge. Henry Blodget, Business Insider, 1. Jaunuary 2. 01. 3. In recent years, however, competitors have caught up with the i. Phone. Some reviewers think Samsungs new phone is superior to Apples latest phone. And many people expect Samsung to leap ahead when the new Galaxy S4 comes out this spring. Another respected product reviewer, Consumer Reports, agrees with those who think Apple has lost its edge. In fact, Consumer Reports conclusion is even more depressing for Apple fans. Consumer Reports actually rates the i. Phone 5 the worst of the top smartphones. Henry Blodget, Business Insider, 4 January 2. I think they should invest more of it in the margin, in the business.