Appleinsider:
Virtually everyone who had offered an opinion about Apple’s iPhone mix got everything wrong.
In stark contrast, no drastic measures were recommended for fixing Moto X. Even the Wall Street Journal couldn’t bring itself to describe Google’s price slashing of the Moto X (from $550 to $399) as a desperate measure to move inventory.
Despite all the media pampering for Google, the reality in this case was that Motorola lost over $700 million for Google in just the last six months of Moto X sales.
As a follow along to the previous “iPad is doomed!” story comes this. I truly do not understand how the tech and mainstream media can see the same data points and come up with the exact opposite conclusions. That is, the iPhone 5c is a flop and the Moto X isn’t. Even if you are being intentionally biased for Google, the data doesn’t support you.
We all know the Android Evangelical Movement compares the entire Android platform to a single iPhone model to base their numbers on. And I’ve never, ever, seen such bias and hatred when it comes to smartphone useage.
It is the same crowd that had been praising Amazon even though Amazon barely makes any profit and is essentially doing predatory pricing to enter markets and dominate them. Recently the stock market finally wised up and the stock fell 8%.
“Google’s $12.5 billion attempt to enter the hardware business resulted in catastrophic disaster worse than the Old Apple under Michael Spindler: institutional failure on a legendary scale” is easily the dumbest thing I’ve read this month.
In large part because the story, the narrative, pretty much always wins.
This is pretty much all you need to know:
“Dog bites man isn’t news. Man bites dog is news.”
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
An 8% drop doesn’t sound like wising up.
by analyst.
to maintain the price umbrella.
I call those mistakes. Whether you can hide behind what the numbers
are for 5C vs other competitors that is different story.
or 5C selling better than 5 would have. That is also an assumption.
for example just look at Flickr 5s vs. 5C number. 5C had lower
number than Galaxy III up until recently. 5C monthly images uploaded
is lower than iPhone 3GS.
Don’t bother refuting.
I won’t bother refuting this because I really don’t understand what you just said.
The thing that was remarkable to me was the continued growth in iPhone sales. Smart phones continue to eat desktops, laptops and even tablets.
I’ve come to think of the iPad as another laptop. Different form factor with strengths and weakness, but it’s closer to a computer than a smart phone. I’m less concerned about the iPad sales because it’s not like Android/Amazon are taking sales away from Apple.
It was 9.88% drop actually.
Well, then you did not read a lot. Try pretty much any Apple article on Forbes, WSJ, Motley Fool or Seeking Alpha for far bigger dumbness.
Having bought 2 5cs on Black Friday, I can only say the critics were wrong. The 5c is great for casual users like ourselves. Yes, it’s not as powerful as the 5s and maybe some others, but that doesn’t mean it’s slow or a slug! I have found it to be a very capable phone.
Drone – it’s funny, how long has GIII been for sale and how long iPhone 5c??
When a large cap company in the stock exchanges, like Amazon, drops almost 10% after earnings announcement, the markets are sending a message. Also, Amazon is down almost 25% from its recent hight price of $400 per share. Profits are like anti-gravity in the stock market. The less you have, the more likely you are going to crash to earth. The more profits you have, the more you can float up. The market has been irrationally discounting Apple’s enormous profit making machine while rewarding Amazon, which barely makes any profits. Eventually, the law of gravity takes over.
Jim, a wise old politician told me once that, “Signs don’t vote”. It’s too bad you have to be part of the tech press. With nothing to write about, opinion abounds, almost universally wrong.
Now where is my Droid?