"The iPhone seems destined to remain the phone of the elite who can afford it."

I can well afford an iPhone but it's an outdated restrictive device now... many of us have moved away from Apple not because of the pricing but because of the features available on competitor devices.

...many of us... LOL

Within the year, Apple will be half the company it is today.

Before the end of this decade, Apple will have declared bankruptcy and be minor footnote in history.

Apple, Microsoft, Intel... all will be gone, and along with them any claim the U.S. has to technological innovation.

People are using older iPhones because the newer iphones aren't worth the money for the amount of features they added.

I'm just guessing that their strategy will keep them afloat for a while, but ultimately fail them. With no tangible huge edge on the market to justify the price difference, all they are is an inflated company that doesn't believe in charity.

keep on hiding Scott.

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Hey, let's be a gadget blog too, as we spin headlines that make a mockery of objectivity, since the sky is falling, well, will be, any day now that tobacco farmer Gore just adopted half a billion dollars of oil money to further heat his six fireplace palace and, oh, buy further into Apple stock offerings:

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Apple temporarily fills the quintessential American consumerist culture vacuum. Since the USA debt slaves are largely devoid of arts and culture, consumerists adopt conversation pieces like Apple toys with which to hopefully glean temporary interest and attention from others. Of course the fad leads to market saturation, and the product is no longer a conversation piece. Then the poor hipster must cough up more cash for a replacement toy or face social isolation in the corportatist USA, which is the greatest fear among the hiveminds

Funny transition happend with the Iphone. The first version came with superior software and average hardware. That shifted now to superior hardware(CPU/GPU design) and average software.

There are only so many ways you can design little white boxes and still call it revolutionary. Colouring them in black or making them out of metal doesn't cut it either. Try and do some valid engineering instead. Message to Apple, the Little White Box Designer is dead. Get over it.

Within the year, Apple will be half the company it is today.

Before the end of this decade, Apple will have declared bankruptcy and be minor footnote in history.

Apple, Microsoft, Intel... all will be gone, and along with them any claim the U.S. has to technological innovation.

You do realize that if Apple keep the same operating expenses it currently has and didn't sell another device its $121 billion in cash and short term assets would keep it operational for at least 10 more years. I think your excitement to bash the status quo has blinded you from the facts.

Apple may not be the technology leader that it was under Steve Jobs but its far from dead. I hope they continue to innovate and keep there products simple.

Yelmurc is blissfully unaware of the fact that Apple lost around 10% of it's value today.

http://finance.ya...amp;ql=0

Apple has now lost 20 percent of it's value over the last 2 days.

It will lose 30 percent more over the coming year.

Apple stock is being manipulated by big hedge funds. A company doesnt lose its worth over night. There will always be Apple bashers, just like linux fans ( aka MS bashers ) said 15 years ago they are going to take over the market. Android is doing a great job taking over the market but it will never deliver the product that Apple delivers, they are on two different scales. Just like cars, people want options and the companies will fill the void.

Actually, comapnies lose their worth overnight all the time.

"A company doesnt lose its worth over night." - Evropei

But mostly if the company was never worth it in the first place.

Apple is an overpriced toy company. It is like Mattel or Hasbro and makes shiny toys for big boys and girls.

It has run out of ideas, and is running on empty.

It's stock will be trading 40% lower by year end.

Apple will soon realize this and go on a corporate buying spree to use up some of it's value before it vanishes.

Keep selling your shares, I am planning on buying Apple at a premium. When most people cant see market manipulation by big hedge funds, its time to make some money from short sighted people.

A fool and his money...

"I am planning on buying Apple at a premium." - Evropei