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rogifan_new said:

If this is true that just tells me Apple hardware sales will continue to be soft and they're going to bring changes to iMessage that they can monetize and push to Android as well. I think it's pretty obvious that ads in the App Store are about generating more "services" revenue than anything else.

I think Apple Music has shown us that Apple may be slowly shifting gears into a more service oriented company. Perhaps they see a future with a weaker $600+ hardware business, and carriers have done them no service removing subsidies and revealing costs of devices to customers directly. WWDC may be more important than ever to them, and the hardware refreshes may be less and less bombastic and exciting.

Apple needs to flesh out their Cloud, Messaging and Media platforms for more customers. Slowly Apple is being outpaced in AI, music, cloud, productivity etc. This needs to be their next attack vector and they need to make this available not to their 10% market-share but the 90% of the market that doesn't use their devices. People claim these software services need to stay on iPhone because it gives them a competitive edge, but more than often Apple's own services are being replaced by Google on their own phone. The war is software, and Steve Jobs claimed Apple is a software company. They need to start acting like it.

techprod1gy said:

I know many of you have sensitivity issues and are blind to Apple problems but let's speak truths here. Apple's efforts in the cloud have been horrible. Especially when compared to the other various offerings from competitors. There was no reason for Apple to be late to the party. There is also no reason for Apple's recent efforts to suck so bad. They are unreliable, confusing and just not put together very well. Am I wrong?

I wouldn't go as far as to say they're horrible, but they are up against some really strong competitors in this space and they're just not up to par with them. 

The big first step I would like them to take is to actually centralize all their settings and controls in one web interface, similar to how Google operates. I don't know why I need to go to iTunes directly to manage subscriptions or purchases, then the Apple ID website to manage passwords and security and then iCloud.com to manage other things.

Does Apple have an online interface for documents and files now? One of the major reasons I never used it when I had an iPhone.

Roku seems to be cutting better deals since they have no ulterior motives as a small company. Until this changes, Apple TV isn't the future of TV anymore than Roku is the future of TV and Roku seems to have the edge so far.

Pay $50 for the Roku stick, get everything, or pay $140 for an Apple TV and get some things. 

I wonder what everyone would be saying if Apple has come to market with this device first and Amazon announced their intentions for the same product. 

It's only copying with the other guys do it.

Google's success in education has nothing to do with machine profits. It's that they get millions of kids to use their services and they'll be users for life most likely.