The iphone and stockings law

September 13 Cook: No. 700 million iOS device will be born in October

October 22 Cook: 64% iOS device running iOS7

December 5 Apple development: 74% iOS device running iOS7

With the above three news, the average reader will only feel that iOS is up to speed and that the iphone and ipad have sold well since 07. But if you do a little more, you can see that there is a lot of information.

Assuming that 10% of the new iOS7 users added from October 22 to December 5, one-third of them came from the activation of the device (September 18 began to push iOS7 update, the old equipment mass upgrade was already over), six weeks Apple should sell more than 30 million iphones, ipad or ipod Touch. If the 10% new iOS7 users come from newly purchased equipment, the sales will be close to 60 million units.

Until Apple releases its quarterly earnings next January, we won't be able to get to the exact figures. But given the average quarterly results of more than 30 million iphones and more than 10 million ipads in the last fiscal year, six weeks, 30 million or 60 million, it was "surprising" and "frightening".

Apple sweeps America's Day and takes no old Europe

Figures from Apple's official and third-party agencies show a strong incentive for Apple's new product. Fiksu's data show that the ipad Air three-day sales are four times times iPad4, and analysts say it should be around 3 million. Verizon and At&t, two of America's biggest carriers, say the ipad Air is twice times more active on its own network than the IPAD4 on sale. In Black Friday, the three ipad occupies the top three of the best-selling list of US retail giant Target. After Black Friday, Localytics's statistics showed that the ipad Air activation increased 51%,iphone5c and the ipad mini grew one-fourth.

In the local-minded Japanese market, iphone5s/5c the top nine in the sales list. At rival Samsung's home, iOS's market share climbed to 14% in October, and consumer satisfaction was also overshadowed by Samsung. The iphone also achieved a year-on-year growth of 50% in Greater China in the third quarter, thanks to its first start in China. In Europe, however, Apple has grown weak, with the iphone even overtaken by Windows Phone in Italy and France.

The law of Silk stockings in economics

There are many ways to find out why. Coincidentally, the results of the three-quarter economic growth of the world's major economies and next year's economic growth forecasts (from the IMF) show a logical consistency with Apple's performance. The iphone's underperforming EU is clearly dragging down the global economy. In Germany and Britain, which have the best economic performance in the European Union, the iphone's market performance is still good.

This is not a unique aura of the iphone, which is indicative of the state of the economy. During the American period of progress (1860-1920), the United States experienced many economic crises due to the cult of the free market economy. George, a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, concluded in 1920: the length of stockings was proportional to economic growth, while American women competed to show off long legs and stockings during the boom, while in the doldrums they covered their thighs with trousers and skirts. Later, Wall Street financial analyst Lalf Uttenheim also pointed out the relationship between the length of women's skirts and the Dow.

Mr. Yang said: "Lifting the socks so stretched thigh, jiao drop the most broken people intestines." What makes men covet women is not the stockings themselves, but the decoration of women's legs. Women's legs convey a strong hint of sex, sex and sexuality. The iphone and the economy are proud of a loss can not simply use price and quality to explain. After six years of iterations, the iphone product itself has struggled to make users feel fresh. But the ecosystem around the iphone, including Apple's grip on supply chains and operators, still has the "reality-distorting force" that Steve Jobs relishes.

The "Reality distortion field" of the iphone Trinity.

When the 4G network was launched in South Korea in 2011, operators offered large subsidies and marketing support to Samsung and LG handsets supporting LTE, which plunged the iphone's share of the market from 8% to 3%, and the IPhone5, which supports LTE, rebounded to 14% today. China Mobile is about to launch an iphone contract, which analysts believe will lead to sales of at least 30 million units. And the EU due to the 800MHz band Cleanup Schedule procrastination, LTE coverage only 1/4, Nordic and British stand in the forefront of the 4G construction.

Compared to the dominate of the United States, the system of China and the hands of the world's most-traveled Japan, in the Internet business, the map of the old Europe is also a depression. A map of the European venture, 36KR, shows that France, Italy and Spain are the deserts of entrepreneurship, and that the number of startups in Germany does not match its position in the EU economy. Britain and Northern Europe are leading European entrepreneurship. After Nokia's decline, a large number of Finnish young people began to start their own businesses, and many of them moved their bases to Britain and the Netherlands, the Economist wrote.

This shows that the iphone is a catalyst for high-speed networks and mobile Internet. In a vibrant economy, where operators are willing to subsidize the iphone with a hefty subsidy, the App Store's support is also a bonus for entrepreneurs. In a declining economy, where operators do not have the funds to upgrade their networks, young people do not dare to start a business, and the cost of replacing new handsets is higher and the experience is worse.

Despite the fact that the Android user base is now in the lead, developers are still attracted by the "reality twist" of the iphone and are always on the App store for the first time. The same "distortion of reality" so that mobile infatuation does not change, so far up and down looking forward to the iphone such as the drought hope rain. The leaders of China's technology industry should think about how to build a product that has the same "reality-distorting force field". This is not only the only way for a great company, but also the inevitable demand of China's huge economic transformation.