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Apple’s main job in earnings conferences is to remind us that there’s more to the world’s most valuable company than the iPhone – while persuading us that the iPhone is doing really jolly well. The iPhone generates almost two-thirds of Apple’s wealth. The latter task was easily accomplished yesterday, as this was the first …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    April iPhone fatigue?

    the iPhone will be a mere sideshow by then because of the all singing, all dancing mega phone called the

    Samaung Galaxy S8

    Plus the new Note

    This phone is sure to be able to do everything including wipe your backside after doing No 2's.

    They will rule the market and Apple will be left with a total dud. After all it does not even have a headphone socket.

    Well, that's one POV and one that the Android fans will hope comes true or are we living in a reality TV show?

    Is apple doomed to file for Chapter 11 before the end of 2017?

    Or will they power on must as before including the odd hiccup or three?

    Your call.

    Only time will tell if the El Reg hacks have been drinking too much apple cool-aid or some other more lethal brand.

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    1. Dave 126 Silver badge
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      Re: April iPhone fatigue?

      >This phone is sure to be able to do everything including wipe your backside after doing No 2's.

      Since Japanese toilet vendors have recently agreed to standardise the symbols they use to mark the buttons for Bidet, Dry etc, they might even incorporate a Bluetooth or NFC-based API for controlling the crapper with a phone. Stranger things etc.

      I don't know if the Koreans have similarly high tech bogs.

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  2. Mage Silver badge

    was supply constrained on the Pro

    Ha Ha

    Pull the other one.

    Well, Apple has enough inertia to be profitable at least another 10 years. But I doubt they can ever repeat the success of the iPod (initially due to iTunes content) and iPhone (initially due to operator bundling and data deals) with any new product type.

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    1. Mad Hacker
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      Re: was supply constrained on the Pro

      Supply was clearly constrained. It took over a month to get our first ones after they were released.

      As far as I can tell Apple and Google (with its Chromebook) are the only vendors selling computers that are increasing marketshare.

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    2. Dave 126 Silver badge
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      Re: was supply constrained on the Pro

      Well done Mage - you've got your cause and effect arse about tit, if we are to be so simplistic. Truth is more the opposite of what you state, though of course more inter-related.

      I seem to recall we touched upon this the other week and you had your dates in a muddle then. C'mon, simple fact checking doesn't take long, and there's enough fucking noise in this world as it is.

      Cheers

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  3. ColonelClaw
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    "In all emerging markets, Apple is fighting an overvalued dollar – meaning prices are “20 per cent, 30 per cent, 40 per cent” higher than they were"

    Yeah, THANKS Brexit

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Wot?

      UK is not an emerging market. Wish it was - emerging markets have growth potential and there is money to be made by building stuff (not scrounged by moving it from left pocket to right pocket)

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Wot?

        Well, if Brexit totally tanks your economy then you can be an emerging market again - emerging from bankruptcy!

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    2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
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      Have an upvote

      For saying that the UK is an emerging market.

      Only if it were true ... or perhaps it is?

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Movie studio branding

    The only studio I can think of that has the sort of name recognition and a strong enough record that people might see a movie based merely on the name is Pixar.

    The next closest is Lucasfilm, but "hits" like Howard the Duck and Tucker drop it below Pixar in success. And, many would argue if you're talking quality rather than box office, all three Star Wars prequels :)

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    1. Dave 126 Silver badge
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      Re: Movie studio branding

      Pixar... formed from the stuff that was sold off to fund the making of Howard the Duck. Pretty sure there's an Apple connection here, too ;)

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    2. Dave 126 Silver badge
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      Re: Movie studio branding

      Cable Chanel branding might be a better analogy - the term 'HBO-style drama' is an accepted shorthand. AMC and Netflix have caught up perhaps, and even channels such as USA, known for police procedural series, will take a punt on the likes of Mr Robot.

      Back in the days of buying CD albums (and without being able to listen to it first on YouTube), one could to an extent go by what record label the album was on.

      Still, AO's point stands; Apple's core strengths don't translate to creating original content.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Movie studio branding

        Just because HBO, AMC and Netflix have name recognition doesn't mean that people will watch a new series just because it is on HBO or AMC. They've had plenty of misses over the years.

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Re: Movie studio branding

          And HBO can fumble their own content mid-play. The first three seasons of Game of Thrones were great fare, but the two dickheads producing it cut so many corners and rushed though the book-based content as if several dozen more are just about to be released, that they are now lost in Westeros without any way of getting back to the original GRRM stories. It's not easy to make these things, but it can be done on the cheap, and HBO is famous for being cheap. Look at The Sopranos. It was a PERFECT series for them; no book readers to fuck over with made up "new story lines," not a period piece, and shot all in dingy, dirty, dirt-cheap New Jersey USA. With dragons, you get problems. It is known.

          Love those fake Apple stores in China! What an odd country to blatantly honor a tech company they wish they could out-class, and can't. Yet look at those awful Chinese phones with obvious security lapses built in, and everything except "Designed in Cupertino" on it, including pre-installed state-sponsored hacking/monitoring apps. For your "safety." At least the NSA/CIA/FIB [sic] have to hack into my phone remotely, or intercept my data at peering points, rather than it being built-in by a faulty company to satisfy the glorious leader. I doubt even tRump's security mandates can manage that level of infiltration to companies that don't even consider him sane.

          Be on the lookout for fake Microsoft Stores, complete with 10 to 1 associate to guest ratio! And fake Huawei Stores in the USA. It could happen. Okay, it will never happen.

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