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Originally Posted by grizy
5k package idea is clearly wrong. Apples sells a LOT more iPhones than Macs/iPads. I am not 100% but I’d be very surprised if even a majority of iPhone owners today also own a MacBook or an iPad.
HomePod has been a disaster and Siri has somehow fallen behind everyone else’s voice assistant. The Touch Bar and butterfly keyboard is utter trash. My wife got one from her jobs tech budget and she returned it after a few days.
I have been viewing Apple as a luxury electronics maker for years. What bothers me about Apple isn’t lack of unit sales growth. I expected that.
What bothers me is Apple’s execution has gotten worse over the last 4 or 5 years.
The 5K package is a bit hyperbolic obviously but it s still real, alot of apple features require to have multiple products and many family will go 100% apple (I know a ton of them from work)
apple watch require an iphone
airpods are much better with an iphone + other apple products.
the ipad is much better to share stuff with another apple product and i m not even talking about apps from the store that you share between devices
Imessage and facetime to my knowledge are better if you have some ipad or macbook/IMAC aswell.
Now they have a big problem, when they release a phone for 1200$ and chinese good brand start bragging that for the same price they offer a phone that is on par with that the iphone + a decent laptop + whatever gadget for the price of the iphone like
here. Even if you have enough disposable income the price difference is becoming relevant for a lot of people.