Apple warns investors future products may never be as profitable as iPhone

Analysts say artificial intelligence and virtual reality headsets might have lower margins than smartphones and App Store

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The iPhone came at the right time!
- That is correct, there was a pre-established market that refused to advance (check the Sony Ericsson smartphones before the iPhone), same with the iPod. Once they got a product with market breaking features, it became a global phenomenon. I wonder what current markets are held down due to lack of imagination or greed.
  
  wonder what current markets are held down due to lack of imagination or greed.
  
  I would say evs and renewables.
  
  I think it's really interesting to compare old iPhone ads with current smartphone ads.
  
  iPhone in 2008: You can check the weather, get directions, take photos.
  
  Phone in 2024: If you point your phone at a sign, it'll google stuff about what it sees on the sign. Also, your iPhone will literally leave your hand and fly its way to the Verizon store to replace itself with an iPhone 16 because that's all we got.
  
  I mean, they reduced battery life from 5 days to 1 and told everyone to suck it up, so there’s that’s.
- I’m sure they’ll still continue to mimic other companies in the best way possible.
isn't it enough that so many people use iPhones geez. company has so much money.
- You either increase the profits or you go down the capitalism slide.

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