This is the article where I got the 17.6% number from
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/25/ap...ll-declining-down-17-6-percent-to-14-million/
You know as well as I do that we can sit here picking statistics till the cows come home - Google "Smartphone market share" and you'll see the current trends and you're welcome to make what conclusions you like.
It's funny because that talks nothing about market share, thats sales. Between two different, non comparable quarters.
Sales are actually up 25.9 percent year over year, for the same comparable quarter.
This is what irks people in this sub-forum off, you come in, quoting ridiculous numbers that don't actually relate to anything you're trying to say; It's just emotive statement after emotive statement.
The best bit about the article you linked to though, that's not even talking about the iPhone. It's talking about the iPad. How can you compare 'tablet share decline' for Apple to smartphone share increase for Android?
I'd love to be proven wrong and I'd love to see Apple create something awesome again but I can't see it
Of the two devices we've been talking about (iPad / iPhone), which of those *isn't* an awesome product? When was the last time Samsung/Nokia/Microsoft released a product which caused a paradigm shift in computing? Something that has totally changed your day-to-day computing habits, because this is what we're talking about. Apple released two of them in the past 6 years.
I know which company fills me with the most confidence in the innovation department. Sure, they may never actually release anything as revolutionary again, but I wouldn't mind. As long as they continue to iterate on what they have, year-on-year, I'll be happy. It's not about the hardware anyway, it's
all about the software it can run.
what I do see is an Apple hierarchy pulling itself apart in an attempt to regain both consumer and shareholder confidence. Again, not particularly rosey stuff.
Again, because you've been reading sensationalist articles. Read some articles that deal in fact. They've fired two executives, they're far from pulling themselves apart.
The first because he used to run Dixons, and basically was the total opposite of what Apple wanted. A poor hire, a mistake. It happens at all companies once in a while. (This quick fire wasn't really much of a surprise to anyone in the uk, was it?!)
The second was because he wasn't getting on with the other 10 members of the leadership and wanted to pull things in a direction that benefitted him and his team, not the whole company. Again, a fairly understandable firing.
So two sensible firings is a sure fire reason for consumer and shareholder confidence to be down... Let me see... like for like sales are up massively on 2011. Consumers seem pretty confident in Apple to me.
As for shareholders and share price, this all stinks of stock market manipulation to me, just before Apple unveil their numbers. Good old buy low sell high.
Lets have a look at Microsoft shall we...
How about samsung? Seems like two of the companies you just mentioned had a bit of a shuffle round too.