GIVEN the rate customers upgrade their smartphones, the iPhone 8 was
expected to be the driving force for a “supercycle” of sales not seen
since the 2016 release of the iPhone 6.
However, respected
analysts from Deutsche Bank predict Wall Street’s expectations for Apple
are far too high, with the iPhone 8 tipped to fall short of previous
supercycle sale records.
“We believe investors will be disappointed by iPhone growth in FY-18 and FY-19,” the investor note read, reported Business Insider.
The
analysts believe saturation of the market, longer refresh cycles and
increased competition in China will make it difficult to surpass the
2015 sales records when “everything went right for the iPhone 6”.
Deutsche
Bank suggested Apple’s record breaking 2015 supercycle was so
successful because a bigger display and the addition of China Mobile as a
new carrier.
“That cycle saw peak iPhone shipments of 231M in
FY-15, a shipment level the company has not been able to repeat,” the
report read.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/analyst-predict-iphone-8-supercycle-will-fall-short-of-2016-iphone-6-record/news-story/2801bc82bef25e3c766188168dc9bc06
"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Monday, July 17, 2017
HOW THE WEST WAS WON FROM REPUBLICANS BY DEMOCRATS DUE TO ANTI IMMIGRANT ATTITUDE PLAYED BY THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT AND ITS BASE OF OLD HISTORY OF HANGING ON TO POLICIES TARGETING LATINO IMMIGRANTS INSTEAD OF PROVIDING A COMMON FAIR SOLUTION - AS THE YOUNG HISPANICS WILL NOT FORGET THE IMMIGRATION FIASCO PLAYING NOW
When the Mirage Hotel and Casino opened in 1989, it kicked off one of the most significant construction booms in recent history.
Four new mega-casinos opened in quick succession on the Las Vegas Strip, bringing in tens of thousands of new residents to work as card dealers, cocktail servers, security guards and maids.
Among the new arrivals was a family of undocumented Mexican immigrants who found a house in the impoverished bedroom community of North Las Vegas, where their son found a local team to play soccer with.
After
winning citizenship, that son became the first formerly undocumented
immigrant to claim a seat in Nevada’s state legislature.Today, Rep. Ruben Kihuen’s (D-Nev.) family still lives in North Las Vegas, and his mother still cleans hotel rooms.
“My story’s a very common story,” Kihuen said at a cafe recently, just a block from the field on which his soccer team played.
It’s a deeply personal tale that points to a growing problem for Republicans: Demographic change is slowly, but inevitably, moving Western states to the left.
The political power of Las Vegas is a hint of the GOP’s worst-case scenario: A mega-metropolitan area so dominant, and so Democratic, that it swamps the Republican advantage in increasingly conservative rural areas.
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/342427-republicans-face-growing-demographic-shift-in-west
Four new mega-casinos opened in quick succession on the Las Vegas Strip, bringing in tens of thousands of new residents to work as card dealers, cocktail servers, security guards and maids.
Among the new arrivals was a family of undocumented Mexican immigrants who found a house in the impoverished bedroom community of North Las Vegas, where their son found a local team to play soccer with.
“My story’s a very common story,” Kihuen said at a cafe recently, just a block from the field on which his soccer team played.
It’s a deeply personal tale that points to a growing problem for Republicans: Demographic change is slowly, but inevitably, moving Western states to the left.
The political power of Las Vegas is a hint of the GOP’s worst-case scenario: A mega-metropolitan area so dominant, and so Democratic, that it swamps the Republican advantage in increasingly conservative rural areas.
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/342427-republicans-face-growing-demographic-shift-in-west
Sunday, July 16, 2017
ITS NO SECRET THAT INDIA AND CHINA ARE SWORN ENEMIES AS THE LARGEST DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY INDIA PITS ITSELF AGAINST THE LARGEST COMMUNIST COUNTRY BOTH BY POPULATION - AS A NUCLEAR STANDOFF IN PLAY OVER A REMOTE ROAD IN A DISPUTED TERRITORY ON THE DOKLAM PLATEAU - AS CHINA DOES ANOTHER BUILDING PROJECT OF A NEW ROAD IN THE REGION FOR A TAKEOVER - WHILST CHINA COURTS INDIA'S NEIGHBORS PAKISTAN AND BANGLADESH IN SURROUNDING THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY
ASK most people to name a current
crisis between nuclear armed states and North Korea and the US’ rapidly
worsening relations would come to mind.
But there’s
another skirmish happening between two nuclear nations and both have
far more fully functioning missiles, poised and ready to fire, than Kim
Jong-un could even dream off.Ten thousand feet above sea level, in the sub zero cold of the Himalayas, things could be about to turn hot.
Since mid-June, Chinese and Indian soldiers have lined up “eyeball to eyeball” on the remote Doklam plateau. In recent days, more troops have been sent to the frontline.
Currently it’s a nonlethal battle of platitudes at altitude, but commentators in China have warned, “there could be a chance of war”.
And that’s not a great prospect, given India is thought to have more than 100 nuclear tipped missiles while China’s warheads could total more than 250.
The flashpoint between the two seems mundane ——the building of a new road on the Chinese controlled, but disputed, plateau. But the last time the two went to war, half a century ago, it was also over a road.
http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/warnings-of-a-chance-of-war-between-india-and-china-as-nuclear-rivals-face-off/news-story/325ace8a2957aeb6a3634db44a4c12e9
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