[HN Gopher] As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands ...
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       As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance
        
       Author : gumby
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-09-11 17:21 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | skyyler wrote:
       | >Nearly 90 percent of teenagers own an iPhone, according to Piper
       | Sandler, an investment bank.
       | 
       | >the teenager told his father that he wanted an iPhone or no
       | phone at all.
       | 
       | I knew the kids thought iPhones were more desirable, I didn't
       | realise it was quite this bad.
        
         | vuln wrote:
         | There are multiple versions of the iPhone. What's wrong with an
         | iPhone SE? The latest version is 430$ retail, I'm sure you can
         | find used for probably half the price.
        
           | throw9away6 wrote:
           | iPhone 12s can be had for like 250 11s are like 100$ with the
           | right promo
        
         | devonnull wrote:
         | I guess that kid isn't getting an iPhone :-)
        
         | switch007 wrote:
         | Here in the UK, I can't recall a kid with a phone the same size
         | or smaller as my iPhone 12. They all have their parents' 12/13
         | Pro Max hand-me-downs!
         | 
         | They get whatever their parents had 1/2 years ago (and loads of
         | people get the most expensive models)
        
         | throw9away6 wrote:
         | The way the kids see it, if you don't have the blue box you are
         | a nobody. Also having a non blue in a group chat messes
         | everyone up
        
           | bcraven wrote:
           | This rule applies to the US only. Everyone else uses
           | WhatsApp.
        
       | rcarr wrote:
       | If Google have added, as is rumoured, a desktop mode like Samsung
       | DEX to the upcoming Pixel 8, I will be purchasing one
       | immediately, if not it will be a Samsung Galaxy S22. I'll
       | probably still get an iPhone but if I end up taking to Android
       | then the iPhone may well end up getting ditched in a few years.
       | I'm also going to be selling my Macbook Pro soon and relying
       | solely on the Android phone in combination with some AR glasses
       | and a QuadLock swappable battery pack for extra juice. I'm moving
       | over to Codespaces for all dev work, GeForce Now for gaming, and
       | if I ever want to do anything like video editing or AI work in
       | the future I'll just spin up a suitable cloud instance for it. I
       | realise I'm currently in the minority with this hardware setup,
       | but I think more and more people are going to start doing the
       | same, particularly as 5G internet, satellite and high speed fibre
       | continues to roll out in more places and companies perfect their
       | cloud apps.
       | 
       | It seems like Apple is sleeping on this and I genuinely think it
       | might end up contributing heavily to their downfall. They've bet
       | it all on hardware and services and if hardware sales decline,
       | which is looking likely through China's recent moves, I don't
       | think the current services offering is going to cover the
       | shortfall.
       | 
       | Microsoft is looking very strong atm and has made some very savvy
       | investments. They've already got the gaming market, which is now
       | a bigger industry than music and film combined. Between VSCode
       | and Github they're starting to corner the dev market. I've been
       | exploring Azure the past week and I'm quite impressed with it,
       | seems much easier to learn than AWS. They've had the business
       | market cornered for years. And to top it all off they've got a
       | huge stake in the biggest AI company. I really think we might see
       | Microsoft becoming dominant again within the next ten years.
        
       | skyyler wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/bScIj
        
         | timothyduong wrote:
         | I'm stuck in a captcha loop on this link :( anyone else? Doing
         | captchas for days but no forward to site.
         | 
         | Edit: must've been my wifi. Switched to cellular and it's all
         | gravy.
         | 
         | Note: running pihole. Probably triggered some type of forward.
        
           | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
           | Also worth considering is what connections in this case were
           | on a VPN. Cloudflare is set up on a lot of websites to be
           | difficult for VPN users, intentionally or no. Not sure about
           | this domain in particular or if it even uses cloudflare.
        
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