Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by allisthemoist on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @05:41PM
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"Apple may be reaching the saturation point (of the products it currently sells) among potential customers in some countries"
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Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by oxide on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:12PM
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Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.
What is Apple's next move once it saturates the market?
Or, more generally, what is the next move once you've saturated a market?
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by jedberg on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:38PM
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A whole new product line. See GE for an example of a company that has figured out how to just keep growing.
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by mozumder on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:29PM
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You create new product lines. They've done the Apple Watch, Apple TV, Apple Pay, etc..
There's plenty of more options available in both the short (<5yrs) and long term (>5yrs). They've previously had consumer product lines that included cameras, game consoles, laser printers, TVs, etc.. They could revisit those markets again, or push into business markets.
Really they could do anything.
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by fullshark on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:39PM
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They are rumored to be interested in cars
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:31PM
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Define your market more broadly. The iPhone itself is an example of this. Desktop computers don't have much growth? Well, what else could a computer be besides a desktop?
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by Eric_WVGG on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:54PM
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It’s safe to say that the whole Internet of Things is still in its “feature phone” stage, if not the infancy of that.
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by thesimpsons1022 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @08:44PM
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a car :)
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by zootam on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:28PM
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creating new products and services which will continue to grow or change the markets and get new customers.
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
by allisthemoist on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:24PM
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Product innovation I would think