Advance Placement: Apple Faces Longest Sales Drop In Decades As iPhone Sales Slump

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Hell yeah, Apple, I'm on y'all ass today. I'm usually an Apple avenger and Apple advocate and I still am, but I will say and I think we all can agree. Apple needs extreme innovation and the iPhone I think one of the main reasons why people are not I think the iPhone fifteen comes out in September. Yep, I haven't heard one person on Earth be like I can't wait for the fifteen to drop. These like the Jordan twenty nine.

But.

I don't think anyone is looking forward to it, and even myself, Like when I lost my phone in the ocean, I'm like, well, maybe I have to get a fourteen regular or go get a Sam song for the first time, I'm like, maybe I should go get a Sam song. So I think they need some innovative features in their I phone, at least fifteen features, because for the last let's say what twelve years, Samsung because innovated and created some amazing features and benefits for their phone, and Apple

And I think because Tim is a great operator.

He's not an innovative per se, but he's innovative and how he's done operations, I think Apple's got very comfortable. I'm not gonna lie do I still think it's the greatest publicly traded stock of all time. Yes, a lot of the drop of last week was because of the credit rating, and they were at the top. They hit all time high and I think two or three weeks ago, so they were bound to come down.

But Apple has for too long has been lagging in their innovation, and they weren't.

You're not really looking like I think they should have bought Dji a long time ago as well on the camera side for everyone who's making content. But you need more disruptive innovation there in their product line.

It's just not there.

Like I feel like the last five iPhones and iPads have been generally the same. Services have done incredibly well. But if the product isn't amazing, the services business is going to fall apart for all of my entrepreneurs, Like, if you have an amazing design, product innovation. I was reading they could have bought mid Journey a couple of years ago and the parameters didn't work out well. That would have been a nice product for them to have in their suite to put into the iPhone.

So put it there. But I just think they need some.

Drastic innovation, and they're not exposed too well to the enterprise side. So if I'm looking at it from a contrarian view of what they need to improve, those are the four or five things that they need to fix in order to be a better brand going forward to make me hold on for the next ten years.

Yeah, I think you made a great point about they got comfortable, because when they got comfortable, the customer got comfortable. I know Lashati just mentioned a couple of things from competitors, but across the board, smartphone sales are down. Yeah, so I'm not sure if that's the biggest issue. We talk about the supply chain. We watched TSM go down, we saw AMD pull back a little bit, we saw a Qualcom pulled back, and the reason was it wasn't because

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Just the United States, the cell phone market has gone down from them the United States, but as four pis in China, it's gone up four percent. They've gone into India, They've gone into Indonesia. So it's kind of what we've been saying for the past month. It's like, yeah, they haven't had the innovative product, and so the new product is like, let's go take over more markets and it's gonna It's just a slow process, but it seems the thing until the division pro.

The other thing with division pro.

Is the price point perce point.

Yeah.

Right, So if you got a fifteen hundred dollars phone and now you have a new innovative a piece of equipment that's going to cost thirty five hundred. And when we're talking about the times that we're in, especially with quote unquote recessionary times, you have to take that into account.

When when you see Apple pull back.

Like that, yeah, I mean the last thing I'll say, am I down on the company long term? No? No, Apple, I mean it made thirty eight million dollars an hour this quarter. Like so Apple is printing more money in a month and some companies will do in six months.

So I still think it's incredibly in rare air.

But sales are down one point one point four year over a year, and guided lower max are down seven percent even with the MacBook and MacBook Pro MacBook are I think some of the desire to why cell phones are down it's going back to a utility type of product where you felt before you were getting something new. You can't, especially in recession, you can't resell the same thing over and over again, like even for me. And

To be better.

And we haven't had that innovation yet. And that's why I said, I think you need a Johnny Ive. There was a huge divide an Apple the corporation between if it should be more efficient or if it should be more creative, like Steve was the more creative person.

Tien was the more the operation.

You need both, Like even when you got to see the rollouts for invest fast and market Mondays, and I know Joe Budden always criticized my love wrestling intros.

You need both.

I got tired of going to conferences on a Sunday and like, here's how to invest in the S and P three. No, you need both. So they need more innovation. The product needs needs to be better. I want to be able to zoom into one hundred x and see the moon like the Samsung can like we need.

To do more.

So this is my outcry to Apple and everyone on their board. It's like, please find someone who can create better products at a faster rate so that the sales can improve and be stable as we're going to this time.

And the reason we talk about the iPhone sales right specifically when we talk about Apples, because if you look at the revenue model, it's fifty percent of the revenue comes from the iPhone sales. But anytime there's a report that they've been declining like they have for the past three quarters, it's going to draw a lot of attention because it's a lot of revenue from the wealthiest company by market cap in the world.

So we got to pay attention to that.

Anything that starts to trend negative, like you said, it's not beneficial, and so they got to figure out what it's going to be.

And from what I've seen from the fifteen I don't know.

I think I think we I mean.

The fourth quarter is a strong quarter for them because of the fact that they released it at the end of September and now those sales, you know, go into the next quarter.

So we'll see.

I mean, I'm sure people the brand loyalty will be strong. Well to see how many people are interested in having the newest product and the price point for it.

Yeah, everyone put in chat what three features would you like to see put in an iPhone that would make you want to buy it?

Yeah.

I think they said early next year.

You know, we saw Google have their their GBT product, and we saw obviously Microsoft with their GBT product. I think by the first quarter of next year. Yeah, that might something that they're trying to have installed inside of the newest phones, and so that might be something that's innovative. We already know what you know, they had Siri, but this is this is something a product that they admittedly said that they've been working on for the past five

Askual you guys, is from a brand perspective, how long do you think you can get away by being a brand that drops features after your competition. It's worked thus far. I'm not worried about if it's worked thus far. I'm worried about if it can work for the next ten years. Yes, and most we've seen legacy companies ib him PayPal, like some huge corporations that were dominant in the previous decade the next decade not be able to keep up.

And then here comes Eli.

Regardless of the lack of efficiency I think he may have, you can't argue about him trying to innovate. Yes, he's missed up which rebranding Twitter and the acts, and he's trying though he's not resting on his laurels though, like the team with the executives at PayPal. So my fear is like can they keep this lead? And we'll talking about Amazon later, because like Amazon in a few years has a chance to be the highest grossing revenue company of all time.

You can't lose that lead.

And like I said, if Bezos get off that yacht with that latinga and his wife, hey and come back and run shot because in a recession Amazon, because you're not just competing against those in your class, you're competing against every brand in the world. Amazon is a formidable opponent for Apple as an investor. If they get a celebrity CEO that is trusted and that pipeline continues to

So all right well.

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