Samsung Officially Cancels the Galaxy Note 7

[O.G.B]

And Apple is still the most valuable company in the world.

Apple may currently be the most valuable company in the world, but it's also lost & worth 200 billion dollars less in market share in 2016. Furthermore, Samsung is the KING of all smartphone companies while Apple's iPhone models continue to lose overall sales & profit growth.


iPhone 7 apparently isn’t good enough to return Apple to sales growth
By Zach Epstein on Oct 6, 2016 at 4:52 PM
BUSINESS

Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus might have been labeled “boring” by some gadget blogs ahead of their release, but these boring new phones are already the hottest-selling smartphones of the season. Try as they might, Apple and its manufacturing partners still haven’t found a way to build the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus quickly enough to meet demand, especially where popular colors and sizes are concerned. In fact, it’s still beyond difficult to find an iPhone 7 Plus in an Apple store in any color.

Unfortunately, worldwide shortages might have more to do with supply than they do with demand, if a new projection from one of the world’s leading technology research firms ends up being accurate.

When it comes to sales predictions five or ten years down the road, Gartner is typically just as bad as any other market research firm that covers tech. In the near term, however, the company has issued some estimates in the recent past that have at least been close to representing reality. This might not be very good news for Apple investors, unfortunately, because the firm just shared a somewhat grim projection for Apple’s holiday quarter, and for the smartphone market as a whole this year.

In a report issued on Thursday by Gartner, the firm said it believes growth in the global smartphone market will slow to just 4.5% in 2016. The cooling is due largely to the firm’s belief that premium smartphone sales will decline 1.1% for the full year.

Where Apple is concerned, Gartner believes total global iPhone sales will continue to decline in the third and fourth calendar quarters of 2016. “Despite the availability of the iPhone 7, Gartner expects a weaker year-over-year volume performance from Apple in 2016, as volumes stabilize after a very strong 2015,” the firm said in its report.

iPhone 7 apparently isn’t good enough to return Apple to sales growth

And the iPhone is still the highest selling flagship smartphone in the world.

If people are willing to pay top dollar for a technologically outdated, sub-par smartphone & OS, then so be it!

And iPhones are allowed on planes too

Yet, even with this handicap, Apple still won't sell more smartphones than Samsung this year!

 

[Truefan31]

Apple may currently be the most valuable company in the world, but it's also lost & worth 200 billion dollars less in market share in 2016. Furthermore, Samsung is the KING of all smartphone companies while Apple's iPhone models continue to lose overall sales & profit growth.


iPhone 7 apparently isn’t good enough to return Apple to sales growth
By Zach Epstein on Oct 6, 2016 at 4:52 PM
BUSINESS

Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus might have been labeled “boring” by some gadget blogs ahead of their release, but these boring new phones are already the hottest-selling smartphones of the season. Try as they might, Apple and its manufacturing partners still haven’t found a way to build the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus quickly enough to meet demand, especially where popular colors and sizes are concerned. In fact, it’s still beyond difficult to find an iPhone 7 Plus in an Apple store in any color.

Unfortunately, worldwide shortages might have more to do with supply than they do with demand, if a new projection from one of the world’s leading technology research firms ends up being accurate.

When it comes to sales predictions five or ten years down the road, Gartner is typically just as bad as any other market research firm that covers tech. In the near term, however, the company has issued some estimates in the recent past that have at least been close to representing reality. This might not be very good news for Apple investors, unfortunately, because the firm just shared a somewhat grim projection for Apple’s holiday quarter, and for the smartphone market as a whole this year.

In a report issued on Thursday by Gartner, the firm said it believes growth in the global smartphone market will slow to just 4.5% in 2016. The cooling is due largely to the firm’s belief that premium smartphone sales will decline 1.1% for the full year.

Where Apple is concerned, Gartner believes total global iPhone sales will continue to decline in the third and fourth calendar quarters of 2016. “Despite the availability of the iPhone 7, Gartner expects a weaker year-over-year volume performance from Apple in 2016, as volumes stabilize after a very strong 2015,” the firm said in its report.

iPhone 7 apparently isn’t good enough to return Apple to sales growth






If people are willing to pay top dollar for a technologically outdated, sub-par smartphone & OS, then so be it!



Yet, even with this handicap, Apple still won't sell more smartphones than Samsung this year!

All that talk yet Apple is still the most valuable company in the world.

And the iPhone outsells the galaxy flagships consistently. Lol one million note 7s in a month is low for samsungs standards too.

I would hope Samsung sells more phones seeing how they make a plethora of models. Yet Apple gettin the majority of the money lol.

 

[O.G.B]

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-growth-under-tim-cook-2016-8

Yeah that Tim Cook guy is fukkin up huh smh.

Exactly! Especially when the bulk of Apple's profit revenue are derived from iPhones which continue to decline.

Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs: How that has changed Apple
By TROY WOLVERTON | twolverton@bayareanewsgroup.com

Apple CEO Tim Cook makes closing remarks at the end of the Keynote presentation at the Apple Worldwide
Developer Conference held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 13, 2016



After five years, we know this: Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs.

In some ways, the fact that Cook, who took over as Apple’s CEO five years ago, is his own man has been good for Apple and its various stakeholders. In other ways, maybe not so much.

But that simple fact that Cook is not Jobs has already had a significant influence on how Apple has evolved in the wake of the death of its iconic founder. And it’s likely to have an even greater impact going forward as the echoes of Jobs’ influence inevitably fade.

One thing that’s clear about Cook’s reign is that he didn’t mess up what Jobs had built. In fact he took the profit engine that Apple had become in Jobs’ second era and torqued it up to previously unimaginable levels.

Since Cook took over, Apple’s stock price and its annual sales have more than doubled and its yearly profit has grown 84 percent. Apple’s annual profit is larger than its yearly sales were up until the very last year of Jobs’ tenure as CEO. And under Cook’s leadership, Apple became the most valuable company in the world, joined the Dow Jones industrial average, and started paying a healthy cash dividend each quarter for the first time since the mid-1990s.

Cook took the iPhone, which was already Apple’s most important product when Jobs stepped down due to health reasons, and turned it into a juggernaut. In the holiday quarter this past year alone, Apple sold 74 million iPhones, which was more than the company sold in all of its 2011 fiscal year, when Cook took the helm.

But Cook has been important to the company in more ways than its financial performance. Under his leadership, Apple has engaged with the community in ways it didn’t under Jobs. The company instituted a matching program for employees’ philanthropic donations and has made several sizable charitable contributions on its own. Cook, who came out as gay two years ago, has made an effort to stand up for gay rights and speak out against discriminatory legislation. And under Cook, Apple has taken the lead in pushing back against the government’s surveillance efforts.

If Cook had retired a year or two ago, he probably would have gone down as one of the greatest chief executives ever. But he didn’t, and Apple’s recent stumbles may lead to a reassessment of his tenure.

Apple’s sales have sputtered in the last three quarters, barely growing in the all-important holiday period last year and falling sharply in the last two periods. Its profit for the first nine months of its current fiscal year is down 13 percent from the same period a year earlier. And its days of torrid stock price growth now seem increasingly distant; Apple’s share price has grown just 7 percent over the last two years.

Underlying that subpar performance have been problems on the product front. Under Cook, Apple has been riding the iPhone’s immense success. That success boosted the company’s overall performance, but it helped mask the weakness in Apple’s other product lines.

Sales of the iPod fell off a cliff after Cook took over. Sales of the iPad, which initially was an even bigger success than the iPhone, started slowing down about a year into Cook’s tenure and have never recovered. While Mac sales grew for years after Cook took charge, it too has started to stumble.

Now iPhone sales themselves are declining. In its second fiscal quarter this year, Apple’s unit sales of iPhones fell on an annual basis for the first time ever. They fell again in the third quarter.

That decline has made it even more obvious that Apple under Cook hasn’t come up with a gadget to replace the iPhone as its growth engine. The Apple Watch garnered a lot of hype when it launched last year, but sales have reportedly been falling sharply after an initial boom, and the gadget doesn’t look like it’s going to a hit on the scale of the iPhone or the iPad.

And other initiatives either haven’t seen the light of day or have underwhelmed. Apple’s car project is still in development and reportedly struggling to figure out its mission. Despite lots of hype, Apple’s television efforts have yielded only a digital set-top box that has been at best a modest — but not terribly lucrative — success. As competitors like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon rush to stake claims in areas like virtual and augmented reality and the smart home, Apple’s apparent interest in those areas has been confined to patent filings and the ever-present rumor mill, rather than in releasing actual, competing products.

These setbacks could end up being short-term blips in Cook’s tenure. Should iPhone sales rebound with the next model or should Apple’s car project turn into a big hit, memories of the company’s current doldrums could fade quickly.

But for now, they raise worrying questions about Apple’s future under Cook. One could argue that Apple under Cook has been largely coasting on products and ideas generated by his predecessor. Sure, the company has introduced smaller and bigger iPads and large-screened iPhones, but those have been variations on existing themes, not all-new products. The one all-new product under Cook — the Watch — has been underwhelming and hasn’t built on the company’s success.

Jobs himself once noted that Cook is not a “product person,” that Apple was going to have to rely on others in the organization to come up with new products and new ideas and bring them to market. The company’s struggles of late in that regard may highlight that weakness and hint that in the switch from Jobs to Cook, Apple lost a crucial part of its winning formula — the ability to create breakthrough, market-creating products.

Now, with tens of billions of dollars in profits rolling in every quarter and hundreds of billions of dollars in the bank, Apple remains in an enviable position; many companies would love to have its problems. And no one’s suggesting the company’s going to fade away any time soon.

But its recent struggles do underscore fears that the company’s best days are behind it and could prompt worries about what the next five years will bring.

Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs: How that has changed Apple – The Mercury News

Wow 103 billion in sales that's only half of the 200+billion Apple does yearly. Lol

Bullshyt!

iPhone in sales revenue:

51.6 Billion -1st Quarter 2016
32.86 Billion - 2nd Quarter 2016
24.5 Billion - 3rd Quarter 2016

So unless Apple has 91.06 Billion in 4th Quarter sales revenue for iPhones (which it won't even come close to), there's absolutely no way Apple is doing 200+ billion in i Phone sales revenue for 2016

Slower iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales drive Apple’s revenue down in Q2 2016

Apple’s profit fell 27 percent in Q3 2016, but earnings beat expectations

Apple earnings: Another iPhone decline, stronger software revenue expected

Samsung makes good products overall, the note 7 wasn't one of them
.

You are entitled to your opinion, even though you're incorrect, just as you've been in regards to the rest of your erroneous, specious comments you've wasted your time writing.

 

[Truefan31]

Exactly! Especially when the bulk of Apple's profit revenue are derived from iPhones which continue to decline.

Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs: How that has changed Apple
By TROY WOLVERTON | twolverton@bayareanewsgroup.com

Apple CEO Tim Cook makes closing remarks at the end of the Keynote presentation at the Apple Worldwide
Developer Conference held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, June 13, 2016



After five years, we know this: Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs.

In some ways, the fact that Cook, who took over as Apple’s CEO five years ago, is his own man has been good for Apple and its various stakeholders. In other ways, maybe not so much.

But that simple fact that Cook is not Jobs has already had a significant influence on how Apple has evolved in the wake of the death of its iconic founder. And it’s likely to have an even greater impact going forward as the echoes of Jobs’ influence inevitably fade.

One thing that’s clear about Cook’s reign is that he didn’t mess up what Jobs had built. In fact he took the profit engine that Apple had become in Jobs’ second era and torqued it up to previously unimaginable levels.

Since Cook took over, Apple’s stock price and its annual sales have more than doubled and its yearly profit has grown 84 percent. Apple’s annual profit is larger than its yearly sales were up until the very last year of Jobs’ tenure as CEO. And under Cook’s leadership, Apple became the most valuable company in the world, joined the Dow Jones industrial average, and started paying a healthy cash dividend each quarter for the first time since the mid-1990s.

Cook took the iPhone, which was already Apple’s most important product when Jobs stepped down due to health reasons, and turned it into a juggernaut. In the holiday quarter this past year alone, Apple sold 74 million iPhones, which was more than the company sold in all of its 2011 fiscal year, when Cook took the helm.

But Cook has been important to the company in more ways than its financial performance. Under his leadership, Apple has engaged with the community in ways it didn’t under Jobs. The company instituted a matching program for employees’ philanthropic donations and has made several sizable charitable contributions on its own. Cook, who came out as gay two years ago, has made an effort to stand up for gay rights and speak out against discriminatory legislation. And under Cook, Apple has taken the lead in pushing back against the government’s surveillance efforts.

If Cook had retired a year or two ago, he probably would have gone down as one of the greatest chief executives ever. But he didn’t, and Apple’s recent stumbles may lead to a reassessment of his tenure.

Apple’s sales have sputtered in the last three quarters, barely growing in the all-important holiday period last year and falling sharply in the last two periods. Its profit for the first nine months of its current fiscal year is down 13 percent from the same period a year earlier. And its days of torrid stock price growth now seem increasingly distant; Apple’s share price has grown just 7 percent over the last two years.

Underlying that subpar performance have been problems on the product front. Under Cook, Apple has been riding the iPhone’s immense success. That success boosted the company’s overall performance, but it helped mask the weakness in Apple’s other product lines.

Sales of the iPod fell off a cliff after Cook took over. Sales of the iPad, which initially was an even bigger success than the iPhone, started slowing down about a year into Cook’s tenure and have never recovered. While Mac sales grew for years after Cook took charge, it too has started to stumble.

Now iPhone sales themselves are declining. In its second fiscal quarter this year, Apple’s unit sales of iPhones fell on an annual basis for the first time ever. They fell again in the third quarter.

That decline has made it even more obvious that Apple under Cook hasn’t come up with a gadget to replace the iPhone as its growth engine. The Apple Watch garnered a lot of hype when it launched last year, but sales have reportedly been falling sharply after an initial boom, and the gadget doesn’t look like it’s going to a hit on the scale of the iPhone or the iPad.

And other initiatives either haven’t seen the light of day or have underwhelmed. Apple’s car project is still in development and reportedly struggling to figure out its mission. Despite lots of hype, Apple’s television efforts have yielded only a digital set-top box that has been at best a modest — but not terribly lucrative — success. As competitors like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon rush to stake claims in areas like virtual and augmented reality and the smart home, Apple’s apparent interest in those areas has been confined to patent filings and the ever-present rumor mill, rather than in releasing actual, competing products.

These setbacks could end up being short-term blips in Cook’s tenure. Should iPhone sales rebound with the next model or should Apple’s car project turn into a big hit, memories of the company’s current doldrums could fade quickly.

But for now, they raise worrying questions about Apple’s future under Cook. One could argue that Apple under Cook has been largely coasting on products and ideas generated by his predecessor. Sure, the company has introduced smaller and bigger iPads and large-screened iPhones, but those have been variations on existing themes, not all-new products. The one all-new product under Cook — the Watch — has been underwhelming and hasn’t built on the company’s success.

Jobs himself once noted that Cook is not a “product person,” that Apple was going to have to rely on others in the organization to come up with new products and new ideas and bring them to market. The company’s struggles of late in that regard may highlight that weakness and hint that in the switch from Jobs to Cook, Apple lost a crucial part of its winning formula — the ability to create breakthrough, market-creating products.

Now, with tens of billions of dollars in profits rolling in every quarter and hundreds of billions of dollars in the bank, Apple remains in an enviable position; many companies would love to have its problems. And no one’s suggesting the company’s going to fade away any time soon.

But its recent struggles do underscore fears that the company’s best days are behind it and could prompt worries about what the next five years will bring.

Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs: How that has changed Apple – The Mercury News





Bullshyt!

iPhone in sales revenue:

51.6 Billion -1st Quarter 2016
32.86 Billion - 2nd Quarter 2016
24.5 Billion - 3rd Quarter 2016

So unless Apple has 91.06 Billion in 4th Quarter sales revenue for iPhones (which it won't even come close to), there's absolutely no way Apple is doing 200+ billion in i Phone sales revenue for 2016

Slower iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales drive Apple’s revenue down in Q2 2016

Apple’s profit fell 27 percent in Q3 2016, but earnings beat expectations

Apple earnings: Another iPhone decline, stronger software revenue expected




You are entitled to your opinion, even though you're incorrect, just as you've been in regards to the rest of your erroneous, specious comments you've wasted your time writing.

Again you're doin all that but it doesn't change the fact that Apple is still the most valuable company in the world. The iPhone still outsells the galaxy flagships by a big margin.

So this year even if they don't get 200 million even though they've done so in the past it's still way more than the 100 you're gassin Samsung up to get.

Apple gettin 90% of mobile profits leaving scraps to the rest lol.

 

[winb83]

Yall really out here arguing over and trying to count other people's money? Why?

 

[Truefan31]

Yall really out here arguing over and trying to count other people's money? Why?

I don't care. But gassin up Samsung without proper context and actin like they ain't take an L with the note 7 is absurd. Like Samsung mobile ain't been strugglin last few years too

 

[O.G.B]

Again you're doin all that but it doesn't change the fact that Apple is still the most valuable company in the world. The iPhone still outsells the galaxy flagships by a big margin.

Regurgitating over & over that Apple is still the most valuable company in the world doesn't change the fact that Apple's cash cow, the iPhone. has rapidly declined in sales for 2016 and iPhone profit growth is close to being at an all time low.

So this year even if they don't get 200 million

It's actually billion, not "million".

So this year even if they don't get 200 million even though they've done so in the past it's still way more than the 100 you're gassin Samsung up to get.

Breh, I'm not going to let you get away posting inaccurate, unscrupulous information at your whim. Apple isn't going to have anywhere close to 200+ billion in overall smart phone revenue this year as you previously stated. And we're specifically discussing & comparing 2016 smartphone sales numbers, not those from prior years, so don't try to change the narrative once I've debunked your erroneous statistics you've incorrectly presented as fact to bolster your argument. Furthermore, these useless rants of yours don't reflect actual data as the total phone sales results for 2016 haven't been tallied for Samsung or Apple, so your analysis is worthless.

 

[O.G.B]

I don't care. But gassin up Samsung without proper context and actin like they ain't take an L with the note 7 is absurd. Like Samsung mobile ain't been strugglin last few years too

Money talks & bullshyt walks!

Nobody gives 2 fukks about your small minded point of view, particularly when Samsung shareholders, market analysts, Samsung's stock shares & financial profits from 3 successful earning quarters in 2016 (including the recent Samsung 3rd quarter results even with the Note 7 recall) have already spoken.

 

[winb83]

Regurgitating over & over that Apple is still the most valuable company in the world doesn't change the fact that Apple's cash cow, the iPhone. has rapidly declined in sales for 2016 and iPhone profit growth is close to being at an all time low.





It's actually billion, not "million".





Breh, I'm not going to let you get away posting inaccurate, unscrupulous information at your whim. Apple isn't going to have anywhere close to 200+ billion in overall smart phone revenue this year as you previously stated. And we're specifically discussing & comparing 2016 smartphone sales numbers, not those from prior years, so don't try to change the narrative once I've debunked your erroneous statistics you've incorrectly presented as fact to bolster your argument. Furthermore, these useless rants of yours don't reflect actual data as the total phone sales results for 2016 haven't been tallied for Samsung or Apple, so your analysis is worthless.

Apple recycled the same design a third straight year. When they completely redesign the iPhone next year if it flops then trash them. The reality is as a tech product smartphones have peaked. There isn't much more they can offer and people will gradually become more and more comfortable keeping the same phone for years because the new models offer gimmicks instead of real innovation. Add to that phone subsidies ended and people have to pay the full overpriced amount for them now.

 

[Truefan31]

Money talks & bullshyt walks!

Nobody gives 2 fukks about your small minded point of view, particularly when Samsung shareholders, market analysts, Samsung's stock shares & financial profits from 3 successful earning quarters in 2016 (including the recent Samsung 3rd quarter results even with the Note 7 recall) have already spoken.

Lol you can spew all that shyt but it don't change the fact that Apple is still the most valuable company in the world.

Even in this so called bad year Apple still gettin more money than Samsung. They don't have to get 200 billion+ like in past years. They still doin more than the 100 billion Sammy postin up for the year lol.

Only sell 1 million note 7s in a month brehs. 900 phone you can't use on a plane brehs

 

[Truefan31]

Apple recycled the same design a third straight year. When they completely redesign the iPhone next year if it flops then trash them. The reality is as a tech product smartphones have peaked. There isn't much more they can offer and people will gradually become more and more comfortable keeping the same phone for years because the new models offer gimmicks instead of real innovation. Add to that phone subsidies ended and people have to pay the full overpriced amount for them now.

All the haters want apple to fail yet they do what they do. With all the marketing, freebies, promos like bogo, only 1 million note 7s in a month brehs? People be roasting Apple if any iPhone only sold a mil in a month. Samsung can make pretty good products. But the Note 7 flopped hard.

shyt iPhone 7 prolly did a million preorders in a few hours.

 

[winb83]

All the haters want apple to fail yet they do what they do. With all the marketing, freebies, promos like bogo, only 1 million note 7s in a month brehs? People be roasting Apple if any iPhone only sold a mil in a month. Samsung can make pretty good products. But the Note 7 flopped hard.

shyt iPhone 7 prolly did a million preorders in a few hours.

I'm pretty sure Apple planned the iPhone 7 as a throwaway model. It's damn near the 6s without a headphone jack and with waterproofing.

I don't care if the Note7 flopped it's my phone of choice even with its flaws. TBH I use my iPhone 7 as my gym phone and as a home automation remote and to browse the web when my Note7 charges. If Samsung could fix the Bluetooth issues I likely wouldn't even have this iPhone. As much as I like the iPhone the Note could be my only device and I'd be cool.

 

[Golayitdown]

I'm pretty sure Apple planned the iPhone 7 as a throwaway model. It's damn near the 6s without a headphone jack and with waterproofing.

It was a smart strategic move. If they drastically redesigned the 8 (or whatever/whenever the next model refresh is called) AND removed the headphone jack at that time, it would have been a much bigger deal than it already was.


@O.G.B you gotta chill on the full article posts homie. At least put them shyts in spoilers or something. Dudes that aren't arguing with you aren't trying to read or scroll through all those random ass articles.

 

[O.G.B]

They still doin more than the 100 billion Sammy postin up for the year lol.

Have a seat and take another L! The "100 Billion" in Samsung sales that you keep referring to is based on an analysts "ESTIMATE", not actual official sales numbers.

Lol you can spew all that shyt but it don't change the fact that Apple is still the most valuable company in the world.

And none of your recycled garbage changes the fact that Apple's primary product, the iPhone sales are in the dumps for 2016 & keep diminishing quarter after quarter.

Apple Slides on Speculation of Lower iPhone 7 Sales Outside U.S.

Apple Slides on Speculation of Lower iPhone 7 Sales Outside U.S.

iPhone 7 sales may be lower than the iPhone 6s, analyst claims

iPhone 7 sales may be lower than the iPhone 6s, analyst claims


Create an all new iPhone 7 smartphone which can't even sell better than a previous, older 6 models brehs!

 

[O.G.B]

@O.G.B you gotta chill on the full article posts homie. At least put them shyts in spoilers or something. Dudes that aren't arguing with you aren't trying to read or scroll through all those random ass articles.

Like I really give a damn about your personal point of view.


Those who aren't interested in reading any of the aforementioned or future "articles" can simply skip them