Apple in Trouble

Source: Daring Fireball: Apple and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Drop in iPhone Sales >

Wow, I hope they have a backup strategy, cuz they’re in bad shape.

Apple is a company that analysts love to hate.

They make slightly fewer MORE BILLIONS THAN EVERYONE and it’s considered the beginning of the end.

I personally like most Apple stuff, but not all of it.

• I can’t stand Apple Music right now. I wish they’d do a complete redesign, with Spotify as a beacon

• I wish they’d launch email hosting services

• I think the quality control on OS X has diminished in recent years

• etc.

But I still believe they are the ones everyone is chasing. From a product quality standpoint, from a customer satisfaction standpoint, and from a marketing standpoint.

That being said, I love seeing competition. I am upset with Google half the time, for various reasons, but I love seeing Amazon and Microsoft making inroads in different spaces.

The Amazon Echo, for example, is just spectacular. I think they leapfrogged Siri in terms of an intelligent assistant in basically one move. Quite impressive.

I guess what I’m saying is, anyone who thinks Apple is any manner of bad shape basically has a head injury. But if this empowers its competitors to step up their games, then I’m all for people believing it.