Comment Re:Hardball negotiations not an effective strategy (Score 3, Insightful) 189
I wonder, though, how much it has cost Apple in sales and good will to be putting out a product without the top-of-the-line screen.
It's cost Apple nothing. They're selling every iPhone 6 they can produce.
Here's what could end Apple's winning streak
Another fear is that iPhone sales could hit a wall in 2015 because of its success rate, RBC's Daryanani said.
The iPhone is on track to capture almost 70 percent of the high-end smartphone market ($300 or more) in the next few months, at which point the company could possibly face some market saturation concerns, said Daryanani, who has an "outperform" rating on the stock with a $120 price target.
"If you are looking at having 70 percent market share in the next few months, you have to ask where is the new opportunity or where are the new revenue drivers for them?" he said. "So you have a hit point where you run into some saturation in the market. In the next six months this could become an issue."
Apple PR flacks are talking this risk down, but other than smart watches, Apple doesn't really have room to grow in the USA.