Magsafe and Wireless are still ports, and Wireless is still wired, that 1-2mm gab won't be an acceptable way to circumvent USB-C.
No it doesn’t but wireless charging has a wire, magsafe has a wire, i didn’t encounter a “wireless” charger without wire, yet.
Might be, we’ll see.
The new iPad has USB-C and it’s restricted to USB 2.0 speeds.
I wouldn’t say there wouldn’t be ‘that many citizens that would be put out’ in the EU. iPhones and iPads are immensely popular here. 31% of the smartphone market is iOS in Europe so it’s not a small amount. People would be annoyed but if Android was the only other option, people would move on. In the UK where I am from the iPhone is is used by around 54% and the highest of any European country. Apple would lose on average $92bn a year based on current revenue if they pulled out of Europe so have more to lose than the people here buying their products. I think it’s naive to think that wouldn’t affect pricing, innovation and product quality elsewhere in the world as a result, not to mention consumer feedback and trend analysis.
They could just raise the prices in the EU to cover it. As it is, they’re already risking an EU wide full sales stop with the current price hikes!
The numbers I’d been referencing were indicating more like 20% and below across the EU. And, since the UK isn’t considered an EU country anymore, that would mean that them, like the US and the rest of the world, would see no functional difference in the products/services they have access to if the impossible happened and they ended business in the EU.
The numbers I’d been referencing were indicating more like 20% and below across the EU. And, since the UK isn’t considered an EU country anymore, that would mean that them, like the US and the rest of the world, would see no functional difference in the products/services they have access to if the impossible happened and they ended business in the EU.
Apple’s already making WELL over what’s needed to run their businesses and stores, pay their suppliers, pay their employees and continue to pour dollars into R&D and provide a return to investors. Assuming the $92bn a year excludes the UK, that would be a significant dent, but they’d still be pulling in $286bn in revenue from the rest of the world. Prices for those outside the EU wouldn’t have to go up, their research and development budget is $20 million, so that’s not affected either, and consumer feedback from the EU would be invalid as Apple would no longer be doing business in the EU. For the rest of the world, it’d likely stay at it’s current level as they’ve noticed nothing different in what they have.
A company making $286bn dollars would not suddenly be in “dire straits” and need to significantly alter their business practices.
EDIT:
Exploring this pretend scenario further, what Apple reports as “Europe” isn’t JUST EU nations.
It’s European countries and India, the Middle East, and Africa. So, in order to get a REAL idea of what the financial impact to Apple would be, we’d have to be able to pull India, the Middle East and Africa numbers from what Apple reports as “Europe”. And, any other countries that would be considered “Europe” but not in the EU like the UK. Fun stuff![/b][/b]Apple's 5 Most Profitable Business Regions (AAPL)
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The numbers I’d been referencing were indicating more like 20% and below across the EU. And, since the UK isn’t considered an EU country anymore, that would mean that them, like the US and the rest of the world, would see no functional difference in the products/services they have access to if the impossible happened and they ended business in the EU.
Apple’s already making WELL over what’s needed to run their businesses and stores, pay their suppliers, pay their employees and continue to pour dollars into R&D and provide a return to investors. Assuming the $92bn a year excludes the UK, that would be a significant dent, but they’d still be pulling in $286bn in revenue from the rest of the world. Prices for those outside the EU wouldn’t have to go up, their research and development budget is $20 million, so that’s not affected either, and consumer feedback from the EU would be invalid as Apple would no longer be doing business in the EU. For the rest of the world, it’d likely stay at it’s current level as they’ve noticed nothing different in what they have.
A company making $286bn dollars would not suddenly be in “dire straits” and need to significantly alter their business practices.
EDIT:
Exploring this pretend scenario further, what Apple reports as “Europe” isn’t JUST EU nations.
It’s European countries and India, the Middle East, and Africa. So, in order to get a REAL idea of what the financial impact to Apple would be, we’d have to be able to pull India, the Middle East and Africa numbers from what Apple reports as “Europe”. And, any other countries that would be considered “Europe” but not in the EU like the UK. Fun stuff![/b][/b]Apple's 5 Most Profitable Business Regions (AAPL)
Learn about how Apple generates its profits, breaking down its results by geographic region, with all showing year-over-year improvement.
They could, sure, but who cares except Apple, they can try, let’s see how far they come, when their whole EU market breaks away.
I can’t wait for them to actually try a price hike of additional 20% or more just to see how market goes. I am sure they will find enough excuses to justify it, for example heightened supply chain pressure and lower production capacity.
Yep, specially, when they can’t offer anything that differs much from the competition.
Can’t believe we are the generation that can see the day of world collapse.
The current GDP (PPP - Purchasing Power Parity) difference between USA and EU is lower than 5%, i wouldn’t call this a “significantly larger economy”, before corona if was even less than 1% difference.
According to this, GDP PPP (per capita) adjusted for international $ is $69,286.50 for the United States and $48,436.30 for the EU. That would be a difference of nearly +43% over the EU. Of course the EU and Europe individually have a handful of countries (2 for EU—Luxembourg/Ireland, and 2 for Europe—Norway/Switzerland) that outperform the United States. But the fact remains that purchasing parity is not equivalent across the vast majority of Europe. GDP overall is 25% smaller in the EU vs US despite the EU having a population over 30% larger. PPP, even adjusted for COL in various markets and currencies, is going to be significantly lower per capita (and it is).
Edit: Sorted by PPP I see two EU countries that beat the US in PPP, Luxembourg and Ireland. And both best it significantly. 70%+. Number three on the list for EU PPP is Denmark with (-7%). That doesn’t seem to paint the narrative of the EU being neck and neck. And if you live in other major EU countries, Germany (-16%), France (-27%), Italy (-34%), Spain (-41%), Portugal (-48%), etc the numbers just continue to drop like a rock.
Edit 2: Before you try and change the PPP and GDP metrics you were using, what I used above was GDP PPP (per capita), and why:
“GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products.”
