Apple Inc.

unfortunately Jobs is dead.

EXACTLY

Tech companies come and go.

Some stay in the business longer than others, but none has been able to continue their winning streak.

If apple isn't going to be the innovator of the 'next big thing' in the smart phone market, its fate will not be too different from RIM, Nokia, and dozens of other phone manufacturers; plunging earnings followed by share price.

haha I still like apple a lot, I think their iphones and ipads will be here to stay for at least the next 5 years
after that then hard to say liao, maybe will have new products and new startups

China market is the next driver for Apple bottom line

China will become our largest market: Apple CEO

BEIJING - Apple CEO Tim Cook has told a Chinese news agency the computer giant expects China to overtake the United States as its biggest market.

"China is currently our second largest market. I believe it will become our first. I believe strongly that it will," the Xinhua News Agency quoted Cook as saying in an interview.
-- TODAYonline

http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC1301...-Apple-CEO

china will be a great place for profits~

My wish of getting cheap iPhone in near future vanish...

Apple rejects 'cheap' iPhone

SHANGHAI - Apple's head of marketing has prompted a new round of speculation about Apple's potential plans for a budget iPhone by telling a Chinese newspaper that "cheap smartphones" will "never be the future of Apple's products".
-- TODAYonline

http://www.todayonline.com/Technology/ED...eap-iPhone

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If similar "innovations" continue with iPad, soon iPad will reach its next tipping point of popularity and stickiness IMO

Toilet training iPad accessory announced at CES

LAS VEGAS - A toilet training iPad accessory for babies, the iPotty, has been announced at CES.

CTA Digital say they hope the iPotty will help with toilet training by allowing children to watch videos or play games on their iPads while using the toilet. The iPotty comes with a clip-on cover to transform the potty for a child to use as a seat and a cover to protect the iPad from damage (iPad not included), it is expected to retail for £25 (S$49) when it goes on sale in March, the Daily Telegraph reported.
-- TODAYonline

http://www.todayonline.com/Technology/ED...ced-at-CES

IPhone is never a luxury product, maybe 5 years ago, it was close due to scarcity not price. but it is always affordable to tens of millions of Chinese(maybe hundreds of millions). A cheap IPhone is unnecessary, because there is big enough market for IPhone already. But whether they will buy IPhone or not, is the catch. A lot of Chinese buy IPhone is not because it is better, more like others can't have it. It is not true anymore (as there are enough IPhone owners in China already just like in Singapore a year or two ago, everywhere you see, people were playing with IPhone) and the sale of IPhone is China will stall, or probably decline even.

(13-01-2013, 12:15 PM)freedom Wrote: IPhone is never a luxury product, maybe 5 years ago, it was close due to scarcity not price. but it is always affordable to tens of millions of Chinese(maybe hundreds of millions). A cheap IPhone is unnecessary, because there is big enough market for IPhone already. But whether they will buy IPhone or not, is the catch. A lot of Chinese buy IPhone is not because it is better, more like others can't have it. It is not true anymore (as there are enough IPhone owners in China already just like in Singapore a year or two ago, everywhere you see, people were playing with IPhone) and the sale of IPhone is China will stall, or probably decline even.

I agree a cheap IPhone is unnecessary due to its the popularity and market size. I don't agree that the sales of IPhone in China will stall, or even decline, as I don't think IPhone ownership there reaches saturation point already

Apple still has room to grow, just that it wouldn't grow as fast as before
It's becoming a slow grower but still a decent blue chip ^^