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Comment by scarface74 | Hacker News Reader

According to thier latest quarterly results - at least a few million want them.

Apple looks strong because their price per unit i.e. the "stupid" tax they make you pay on all their products is astronomically high. The actual demand and shipping volumes for their laptops has never set any records and the iPhone is sucking air now too. Their current lineup of products is mediocre at best when compared with what other companies are coming up with. Their biggest "innovations" lately are the touch bar (loser), removing useful ports/features that people like/love and dark mode. Really? Apple is the DeLorean of tech.

So if millions of people are choosing to spend thier money on Apple products, is it possible that thier opinions and priorities may be different than yours?

BTW, all you have to do is look st their quarterly results and see what their volume of iPhone and iPad sales were year over year to see that neither is “sucking wind”.

I think it’s fair to say the iPad is still relatively weak (relative to the phenomenal success of the iPhone, anyway). Unit sales have been flat for a while and revenue is down 5%.

> I think it’s fair to say the iPad is still relatively weak (relative to the phenomenal success of the iPhone, anyway).

By that standard so is literally every consumer product ever created. Take the comparison out of the picture though, and The iPad alone is a solid Fortune 500 company that didn’t even exist 9 years ago.

Everything in the consumer electronics industry is relatively weak compared to the success of the iPhone...

Ive talked to a few of those million people.

They dont know what they want.

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