02-01-2017, 10:56 AM
IronMac wrote:
Heaven help AAPL if their anniversary iPhone develops an exploding battery problem a la Note. It will destroy the company. Samsung sailed through that debacle because their revenues/sales are well diversified.
A one-trick pony like Apple? Forget it.
This, I think, is the key. What happens if iPhone sales should tank for whatever reason? Like an exploding battery? Apple won't have Macs to fall back on, as they seem to be be slowly getting out of the computer market just as Microsoft is pushing into it. Apple just ended monitor sales and router sales, they are looking to be truly a one-trick pony, and that is usually a bad philosophy, as technology and people's use of technology changes, making one-trick ponies become extinct. The smartphone market will eventually be saturated, and/or another technology will disrupt it.