And currently you can buy an iPhone 8 for $800 not an iPhone 8 X but an iPhone 8 for 800 but yes all these also come with packages that you're required to buy meaning of a service. Still the phone itself… either way it's still a lot of money. If the cheapest iPhone I could buy was $1000 anywhere I looked, I would go back to a regular mobile phone and buy some other device like an iPod or something for a podcast listening and Internet browsing and those sorts of things.
Deidre > On Jan 22, 2019, at 1:53 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > By the way, Mark, I mean no offense, but I have to say I'm surprised you post > such link bait. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of M. > Taylor > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 9:17 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: The End Of Apple, Forbes Magazine > > The End Of Apple > By Stephen McBride > > "Oh man, that's almost a month's rent for me." > Here I am sitting in a cab in New York City. > I'm headed uptown to Columbia University where we'll hold the first-ever > American Disruption Summit. (You can register to watch for free here.) > The driver and I are talking about the absurd price tag of the latest Apple > (AAPL) iPhone. > He's shocked when I tell him the cheapest model is $1,149. > "Who can afford that?" he asks. > > Apple's Imminent Crash Has Begun > Apple has had an incredible decade. > Since the iPhone debuted in 2007, the company's sales have jumped tenfold. > The stock has soared over 700%. > And up until last November, it was the world's largest publicly traded > company. > But two weeks ago, Apple issued a rare warning that shocked investors. > For the first time since 2002, the company slashed its earnings forecast. > The stock plunged 10% for its worst day in six years. > This capped off a horrible few months in which Apple stock crashed about 35% > from its November peak. > > That erased $446 billion in shareholder value-the biggest wipeout of wealth > in a single stock ever. > And it's only the beginning. > Apple's Strong Revenue Growth Hides a Dirty Secret > If you looked at Apple's sales numbers, you wouldn't see anything wrong. > Since 2001, Apple has seen steady revenue growth: > > By this measure, Apple's business seems perfectly healthy. But there's a > secret hidden behind these headline numbers. > Despite the revenue growth, Apple is selling fewer iPhones every year. > In fact, iPhone unit sales peaked way back in 2015. Last year, Apple sold 14 > million fewer phones than it did three years ago. > Apple Kept Revenue Growth Only by Raising iPhone Prices > In 2010, you could buy a brand-new iPhone 4 for 199 bucks. > In 2014, the newly released iPhone 6 cost 299 bucks. > Today the cheapest model of the latest iPhone X costs $1,149! > It's a 500% hike from what Apple charged eight years ago. > But technology always gets cheaper over time. > Not so long ago, a flat-screen high-definition TV was a luxury. Even a small > one cost thousands of dollars. Today you can get a 55-inch one from Best Buy > for $500. > In 1984, Motorola sold the first cell phone for $4,000. The average price > for a smartphone today is $320, according to research firm IDC. > Cell phone prices have come down roughly 92%. And yet, Apple has hiked its > smartphone prices by 500%! > Frankly, it's remarkable that Apple has managed to pull this off. > But let me tell you this. > Apple Can't Raise Prices Anymore > It comes down to the lifecycle of disruptive businesses. > Twelve years ago, only 120 million people owned a cell phone. Today over > five billion people own a smartphone, according to IDC. > Apple was the driving force behind this explosion. As the dominant player in > a rapidly growing market, it become the most profitable publicly traded > company in history. > Then iPhone sales growth stalled in 2015. This would've been the end for > most businesses. > But Apple did a masterful job of extending its prime through price hikes. > Its prestigious brand and army of die-hard fans allowed it to charge prices > that seemed crazy just a few years ago. > But now iPhone price hikes have gone about as far as they can go. > After all, what's the most you would pay for a smartphone? > $1,500? > $2,000? > > How bad is this? It's so bad that Apple now keeps it a secret. > In November, Apple announced it would stop disclosing iPhone unit sales. > This is a very important piece of information. Investors deserve to know it. > Yet Apple now keeps it secret. > Keep in Mind, the iPhone is Apple's Crown Jewel > iPhone generates two-thirds of Apple's overall sales. > Let that sink in. > A publicly traded company that makes most of its money from selling phones > is no longer telling investors how many phones it sells! > And its other business lines can't pick up the slack for falling iPhone > sales. > Twenty percent of Apple's revenue comes from iPads and computers. Those > segments are also stagnant. > Which means 86% of Apple's business is going nowhere. > Could Apple go the other way and slash iPhone prices? > I ran the numbers. > If Apple cut prices back to 2016 levels, it would have to sell 41 million > additional phones just to match 2018's revenue. > > Will Apple Meet Nokia's Fate? > Before Apple, Nokia (NOK) was king of cell phones. > In 2007 the front-cover headline of a major business magazine read: > "Nokia: One billion customers-can anyone catch the cell phone king?" > The iPhone debuted in 2007. Here's Nokia's stock chart since then: > > Original Article at: > https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2019/01/21/the-end-of-apple/#68 > 6fdd936dc0 > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. 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