This, and they’ve positioned themselves as a luxury brand in a cost of living crisis. Look at B&O etc. I remember when ibooks came out that were cheaper than the previous year.
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Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s no innovation coming from them anymore. They keep releasing the same devices with updated and pricier technology and people are bored of it.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 7 months ago
But they’re a conspicuous luxury, which many people clearly feel the pressure to own, even if it means sacrificing more basic needs.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
supercheesecake@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Body and odour. It’s a new deodorant line.
CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
B&O
Maybe they mean Bang & Olufsen?
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yes. 🤣
reversebananimals@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What are you talking about?? They made stupid cartoon emojis that no one uses.
/s
railsdev@programming.dev 7 months ago
Personally I think it’s simply market saturation in the smartphone industry. Vision Pro is an innovative new product in a new product segment—and yeah of course it won’t be perfect right out the gate—but at least they’re opening doors for their future.
danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 7 months ago
Yeah, everybody who wants an iPhone has one, and most people aren’t upgrading every year, despite what the stereotypes say.
And as far as the Mac goes, most people who wanted Apple Silicon upgraded when the M1 was the hot new thing. People held off on buying a new Mac in the latter half of the 2010s because of the keyboard and thermal issues, and once Apple Silicon was announced at WWDC in 2020, we knew the Intel Macs’ days were numbered. Most of us bought an M1-based Mac once the model we wanted came out, since the M1 models essentially fixed what was wrong with the Mac.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The Mac is the big one. iPhone sales are strong, stronger than pretty much everyone else in the smartphone market which is down as a whole, but Mac sales are down double digits.
Even then they’re expecting a 1% decline YoY for this quarter, and 5% growth YoY for Q1 which ends in December.
danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 7 months ago
It’ll pick up again, I’m sure. The M1 family fixed almost everything wrong with the Mac, so people were eager to get it, and now we’re set for a while. I’m personally going to hold onto my M1 Pro for at least a couple more years.