A chart of growth rate might have a peak, but a chart of the thing that is growi...

msellout on April 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

A chart of growth rate might have a peak, but a chart of the thing that is growing is more simply modeled as a sigmoid that has an initial exponential growth portion, then a logarithmic portion which ends in a plateau.

neutronicus on April 26, 2016 [–]

That depends.

Time-delayed negative feedback produces a peak and a crash.