Apple

[Vanraw]

So far looks like your sale was a good one, although up pre-market today.

One surprising datapoint today, Apple crushed android (in terms of share gain) in the US over the last 12 months, despite no new phones since October and the launch of the S4 and so on. Same in the UK, but Android is surging on poor countries. Have to see if the cheaper model launched next week helps...

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/04/a...id-kantar/

I would take this data with a grain of salt. The real issue is that phone sales are not going to have the dramatic movement apple experienced in the beginning of the smart phone market. Until there is something new, phones are becoming a commodity. What I mean by this is that the differentiator is no longer quality or features. When this happens to any product, the only focus is price point.

This isn't a religious argument. Apple profits will continue to be under pressure.