A day at a time

From http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/09/apple-inc-aapl-estimates-by-morgan-stanley/ "Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iPhone 5C was on the receiving end of plenty of derision from analysts, mainly because of how expensive it is. But a few are looking on the bright side. Morgan Stanley analysts Katy L. Huberty, Jerry Liu and Scott Schmitz report that they have raised their 2014 fiscal year earnings per share estimate because of better pricing and margins for the iPhone 5C." What's an analyst if they tell us the story after the event? Aren't they called historian? Such is the global economy we live in.... it turns out the Blighty bought the most 5C (to 5S ratio) compared to the rest of the world; and China (surprise, surprise!) bought the least. Not to say China is now rich but unfortunately an increasing sign of inequality and rich-poor divide throughout the world. Rising trade-ins in the developed worlds will surely find its way to rural BRIC's. This will...

Frankly I still can't quite believe it. Keep hearing and see news proclaiming even today that somehow the iPhone 5C is an emerging market product or worse Chinese targeted product. Southern European maybe to be sarcastic but in fact just a product differentiation for Apple itself. Apple is at the sticky end of journalists fight against extinction. They make a wrong call on 5C being low cost for close to a year and then rolls out articles counting how many chinese are not buying the 5C, sigh. Given the 5C effectively is cheapened but discontinued iphone 5, how is it even newsworthy that's comparable to saying the iphone 4 is not selling as well on the iphone 4S day of launch? Who cares if it's 1X, 2X or 10X? The fact that Apple can force all retailers and networks to stomach so many 5C is a clever copy of Samsung's strategy. Regarding finger print sensor: Apple never claim to invent touchscreen or gyro or MP3. What they do is simply integrate the best technolog...

The calm before the storm. Can't wait for the flurry of uh's and ah's. And the revenge of the droids. The new metallic home button ring is quite sexy. Some say an iPhone user is either in touch with his feminine side or is a female. I have to applaud the fruity firm for not throwing themselves at the Wall Street crowd and trying compete at the low end. They'll the eaten alive by the likes of Google and Xiaomi that sells at zero profit. And they call it an "online business". See my iPhone 5 review: http://cp-aor.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/iphone-5-review.html