How long can Apple continue to count on the iPhone? No one knows, because there has never been any other product like that. But the most doded golden goose in history will not continue to lay eggs forever.
Apple, on credit, is fully aware of it. With his enthusiasm of the last prudent update of the iPhone, society could sometimes seem slightly deceived: a bit like the man in the old joke that falls from a building and says to people on each floor while he Go: “So everything is going well!” But Apple does its best to find a cushion on which land.
In the last financial results of the company, we had an idea of the way in which the cushion hunting takes place, and the answer is “quite well”. Tim Cook appointed T1 2025 as the best quarter of Apple, with a record turnover of $ 124.3 billion despite a low decrease in annual slip in the wealth of the iPhone. Who needs the iPhone when you have coherent growth in services to compensate for gaps?
It is certainly rewarding for the company to record its highest quarterly income after launching one of its most boring iPhones (which did not even have its flagship function at launch). But there are concerns we should discuss before getting out of champagne.
The first is that, whatever the growth in other areas, the iPhone remains the most important product of Apple by an unhealthy margin. This booming service division, a portmanteau category combining various sources of income related to a tenuous link, reported a total of $ 26.3 billion, compared to $ 69.1 billion in the iPhone. Portable devices, the house and accessories brought in combined $ 11.7 billion, the iPad at only $ 8.1 billion and the Mac 7.8 billion dollars. First, there is the iPhone. In second place, there is daylight. And it is only then that we arrive at other products.
In this perspective, it becomes a little clearer than simple growth in services is not the simple possible drop in the iPhone that it might look like. This quarter, solid growth in services and iPads was almost sufficient to compensate for a tiny Place for the iPhone. We are always at a point where if the iPhone sneezes, Apple grabs a cold. It was not a sneezing. It was barely the first “Aaahh …”
At one point, the iPhone will undergo a real setback, and we do not yet know how Apple will manage this. Last week, research revealed that premium iPhones buyers become less inclined to pay for more storage, which could become a headache if it turns into a long-term trend. Apple has historically made a plot Money from iPhone storage upgrades, but with the rise of musical streaming and cloud photo storage, there is no same request.
For an Apple size company, it is not easy to rotate, and it should be applauded to do its best. By building a mixed reality headset and an AI platform, Apple positioned itself for two future possible post-surgery, and by increasing Apple TV + and its other subscription services, it has strengthened short income in the medium term. These are all positive stages. But the pivot has not yet been tested. Dip or not, it was another epic district of the iPhone, and we don't know what will happen yet when the good times finally end.
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