Quartz: At Apple’s iPhone presentation today, Tim Cook presented the following chart. At best the chart is misleading; at worst it’s disingenuous. The chart has no scale. It could be showing billions of iPhone sales or it could be showing hundreds of iPhone sales.
Furthermore, showing sales cumulatively tacitly overstates the number of iPhone users, since some iPhone purchases are replacing older or broken iPhones. Many of the phones Apple is claiming as praiseworthy in this chart found the junkyard years ago.
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I've fixed the images on some of these past submissions of yours. Please in the future make sure the image isn't broken on submission.( I always found it best to download/upload it to be honest. )
Well if people don't know what cumulative means, then they shouldn't buy a smartphone. It's a sneaky marketing tactic but they were not unscrupulous or misleading in any way. They could have listed their scale but technically there is nothing else misleading about it.
The difference now is there is more choice on the market compared to when the iphone came out. If you look back there was only really windows mobile that was a smart phone at the time the iphone came out but windows mobile was pointed to the business side of the industry what apple did was made a simple smart phone and because of this it became a hit in the business and none business side. Now you have 100s of android smart phones aimed at different price points and windows phone which has been reinvented by Nokia and is now starting to get a hold of the public and business market.
Android, windows phone and iphone are all here to stay but people are now bored of having the same design on there phone and the same look they will move to anther os now there is not really a app gap between all 3. But we will see all 3 have success and then drop a bit as people start to get bored of there next os choice and move around again.
I don't completely understand why this is important. Apple did better during Q1-Q3 of this year then they did at the same times last year. Moreover, a company can only experience so much growth. I don't think these declines are signaling any real trouble for the iPhone any time soon.
they always decline after the quarter they release a new device... and they are up year on year... so ya good try.
Doesn't really matter how Tim Cook spins it, shareholders have spoken.