Apple: is the iPhone era over?

Beyond Today

BBC

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Apple reported falling sales of the iPhone this week. A category-defining product since its launch in 2007, other smartphone makers have largely been playing catch up. The company is blaming a slowdown in China for the fall in revenues, but it also faces serious competition on price and design from China and beyond. Jen Copestake from BBC Click assesses Apple’s dwindling dominance and what that could mean for the company and its customers. Producers: Duncan Barber and Philly Beaumont.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey, you're listening to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:11.2	the space to ask one big question about one big story every day.
0:27.0	Today is the iPhone era over. Please stand by we're about to begin.
0:32.0	It hasn't been a great week for Apple.
0:35.2	Good day and welcome to the Apple Incorporated first quarter fiscal year 2019
0:39.9	earnings conference call. Sales of the most profitable product in the world are
0:43.7	falling. Today's call is being recorded. The iPhone is the most expensive
0:48.6	mobile phone on the market. Yet earlier this week Apple admitted a glitch in their FaceTime software that allowed
0:56.0	brief eavesdropping even if the person being called didn't pick up.
1:00.4	Kew YouTube mockery.
1:02.4	I'm going to show y'all how to answer people's phone calls for them to where they don't have to pick up and you can hear everything that they are saying.
1:09.0	All right now watch this.
1:11.0	It's hard to imagine a world without iPhones. So is this really the beginning of the end?
1:17.0	To find out, I spoke to Jen Copestake, who's a reporter for Click, the BBC's tech show.
1:22.0	Please go ahead.
1:23.2	Yeah, I'd say it was a mixed week for Apple.
1:25.4	We had at the beginning of the week a mother and son who reported a flaw in
1:29.2	Face Time, which is the chat service that Apple runs.
1:33.0	It's part of a bug bounty program,
1:34.4	so all of these technology companies
1:36.0	look for people to highlight flaws in their software.
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