Apple Q4 2019: The iPhone and the aftermathIf you go by the biz pub headlines, the iPhone is suffering. It's always suffering. In the old days, it was perpetually going to be late, or constrained, or facing weak demand. But, a few years ago, when I and others called them out on it, and it blew up spectacularly, there was a shift in strategy. From big, sketchy reports to kind of slow jamming the neg.
The Wall Street Journal, in particular, seems unable to print the word iPhone anymore without some weird glitch in their auto-correct system changing it to declining iPhone, lackluster iPhone, flagging iPhone, weak iPhone, stalling iPhone, faltering iPhone, slumping iPhone, slowing iPhone, waning iPhone, sputtering iPhone, down-turning iPhone, business damaging iPhone, woes threatening iPhone, troubled iPhone… And that's just over the last six months of their thesaurus subscription.
It almost seems designed to make you think no one wants the iPhone any more when, in reality, it reflects so many people having wanted and ...
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Apple Q4 2019: The iPhone and the aftermath