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Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by kerng on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:39PM (#16997559)
I think Apple is struggling on trying to figure out what the next big thing could be - its definitely not yet watch and wearables.
Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by godzillabrennus on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:41PM (#16997585)
Cars. Absolutely no doubt they need to be in that industry.
Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by stefan_ on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:46PM (#16998167)
Cars are pretty firmly in iPhone slow growth territory. If anything we expect to have less of them in the future.
Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by IkmoIkmo on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:13AM (#17001160)
That, plus car manufacturing is a 10% margin business, Apple is closer to 30%. There's not a ton of money to be made, particularly because the growth in the car industry that will exist will mostly be in getting e.g. Indians to drive, that'll have even lower margins and isn't Apple's target group.
Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by godzillabrennus on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:33PM (#16998962)
Self driving cars will be high growth.
Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by supertrope on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:33PM (#16998055)
How would Apple improve ease of use or add high tech functionality?
Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by godzillabrennus on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:34PM (#16998966)
Self driving luxury cars. Apple is second to none in focusing on design.
Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by wilsonnb on Saturday May 05, 2018 @10:07AM (#17001848)
Second to no tech companies, sure, but Apple would presumably be competing with companies like Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes which are almost definitely better at designing luxury cars than Apple.
Re:China smartphone market suffers hard-landing, shipments d... by larkeith on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:48AM (#17000957)
My wager would be AR. We have a few years yet before we see useful, comfortable, well-designed AR environments, but once they cross a certain threshold they'll immediately obsolete a massive section of the computer dislay market, as well as provide numerous opportunities for further innovation. Given that it's a market in which products will succeed or fail based primarily on UX, ease of use, and quality of design, each a strong point of Apple, they have the potential to take the sector by storm.