Peak iPhone? 5 Implications
Apple has more money than Ft. Knox, but iPhone sales dipped for the first time ever. 6s didn't feel like a "Must Upgrade" to us. Apparently that feeling was shared by many. If we've reached "Peak iPhone" are there implications across web marketing and app development? Yes and here are a few we see coming:

iPhones To The Breadbasket? Crossing The Chasm
Improving Competition
Think ECOSYSTEM not laptop, desktop or phone
Keep thinking Mobile First
Innovation is harder now

Moore's Adoption
Geoffrey Moore's classic Crossing The Chasm describes the tech adoption lifecycle from early adopters to the broad breadbasket of acceptance. If everyone can have an iPhone are iPhones still special. We say YES since Apple's tool is nothing if not a flexible magic wand

Competition Gets Better
Little doubt the bar for smartphones is high and getting higher. We admire Apple for creating a semi-open source developer network who've fought Google with innovation and quality. Apple's filter creates a high bar (though we believe some of the pain is inflated for the sake of being Apple). The question of open sources vs not remains unresolved.

Ecosystems Not Phones, Laptops or Desktops

As our usage moves to the cloud our devices can afford to be smaller, cheaper and less powerful. Power lives in the cloud and in doing small things fast over and over instead of HUGE things rarely and with tremendous risks.

Ecosystem is as much about PHILOSOPHY as anything. I'm an Apple guy and so my buying decisions are made. I also own a great Android phone, but my heart (my like me philosophy) is with Apple.

Mobile First

Don't be fooled by Apple's first dip your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to MOBILIZE YOUR EVERYTHING. Every online marketer reading this note should be looking for ways to get on their customers phones in 2016. Smartphones = LIFE and Sustainability.

Innovation Gets Harder
We are high up the tree now. Picking apples up here require more effort and fewer risks. Lower risks and rewards usually follow. iPhone sales dipped so the end is near misses the point. Innovation moves to web services now (can you say Uber?), the cloud and to a different kind of engineering - the kind of engineering disruptive artists create, understand and see. Innovation requires disruptive..

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Apple Pivots Toward A Free Future
This is a razor blade vs. razor issue now. By dropping a losing idea, that operating systems are profit centers, Apple aligns with where we are going - so much FREE stuff the concept of "Operating System" is much too old school.

I love my AIR, but about half the time it is connected to some FREE web service or another (Google Docs, Dropbox, Google Drive) so the idea that consumers would continue to pay for expensive operating system upgrades when those same systems are operating less and less is a nonstarter.

By knocking the crutch out from under them Apple is better positioned for WHAT's NEXT (appification of everything) and less beholding to an unrealistic idea.

Apple is intensely profitable, but expect operating systems to be the first of many similar transitions as the ubiquitous mobile web that we are all connected to all the time. Add the web of things when all of our refrigerators and gizmos are connected too and you can see how the consumable idea is getting smaller and more frequent - micro payments for apps instead of macro payments for operating systems.

Oh and it may be time to reread FREE by Long Tail author Anderson ans the Wired editor's second book may prove to be the more important of the two long term.

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