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nubus said:

CODA did 1/1000 of the film that was best performing at the box office - Spider-Man, No way home. CODA is the Mac Pro of movies and audiences don't care about either.

Why is Apple trying to be a media company?

Cost $10m, made $1.9m at the box office, a loss of $8.1 m

66 award wins, 145 nominations, which included 3 Oscars, 

So Apple paid $8.1 million to show on Apple TV+ and began  a path to become the next HBO...

Spider-Man cost $200M made $1.9B in box office; good for them. 

But, oh boy, the Oscar nominee for visual effects...

Do you even realize that you have become the J.D. Vance of AppleInsider...

gatorguy said:

Kind of accurate. The search agreements were ruled to be monopolistic. But the court also found that general search advertising is not a market, and so there can be no monopoly control. 

...what they said...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/05/business/google-loses-antitrust-lawsuit-doj/index.html

While the court did not find that Google has a monopoly in search ads, the broader strokes of the opinion represent the first major decision in a string of US-government led competition lawsuits targeting Big Tech. This case in particular has been described as the biggest tech antitrust case since the US government’s antitrust showdown with Microsoft at the turn of the millennium.

danox said:

The time is right Microsoft/CrowdStrike, Recall, and Windows/Qualcomm on Arm floundering, Apple should be looking at disrupting the Microsoft Azure inertia throne, the Microsoft CrowdStrike fiasco means its time or at least getting close to leveraging Apple Silicon computers in small and medium sized businesses in some of the back of house computing solutions.

Microsoft Amy Hood confirmed some of the problems in the Earnings call 

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-reports-dollar647-billion-fy24-q4-revenue-the-seventh-consecutive-surface-decline-and-big-jumps-for-xbox-and-cloud

"Though most of the report is positive, it does show a sizable 42% reduction in Xbox hardware revenue, indicating that Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S console sales have slowed. There's also an 11% decline for devices revenue, which encompasses Microsoft's Surface products. Notably, this is the seventh consecutive quarter in which devices revenue has fallen, signaling that the company is struggling to grow its Surface user-base."

Microsoft needs to fix their OS kernel, AI and the Surface need to take a back seat Nadella is caught between three rocks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-says-that-a-cyberattack-triggered-the-hours-long-outage-impacting-azure-customers/ar-BB1qXMMz

In AI Apple doesn't appear to be behind, in fact in most of the important computing areas today Apple is ahead or right on time. 

Apple is going to be, as you stated, right on time.

Microsoft seems to have solid growth, in everything other than hardware, and it sounds like the current Xbox market is nearing saturation.

danox said:

mikethemartian said:

People do realize that Apple use’s other companies computer platforms to make their products. Such as using Windows/Linux computers to run the electrical engineering design software.

Yes they do mainly due to market inertia in the cad market featuring companies like Autodesk, and Trimble for example which barely supports Mac Computers at all despite Apple being on the verge of offering the M3/M4 PowerBook Pro/Max laptops which will be arguably the best laptops made up until this point bandwidth memory wattage power/battery life and overall performance when combined with what Apple has has coming on the OS software side with Apple Intelligence is unmatched unplugged from a wall. (many job sites)

That mobile hardware, software power also includes the M4 iPad Pro and 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max which run programs like Morpholio Trace with ease. But Apple is definitely missing the boat in the cad/3D/construction area it's comical and sad watching current PC laptops getting 2 hours of battery time on site.

The biggest problem for Apple users is that most of these CAD systems are written for x86, and the companies that sell and support these systems don't see the value in transitioning to Windows on ARM, and less so to Apple Silicon. It's cheaper for the user to just buy a fairly modern PC to run those applications on. 

I have an AutoDesk Suite, Product Design and Manufacturing Collection, which has some components that support Apple M series, and others that don't. In theory, I could use Fusion and get the same capabilities that I get in Inventor Pro, but I prefer Inventor Pro. At some point, likely after Apple announces an M4 Studio Mac, I might find it is worth it to transition fully to Fusion 360, but it makes more sense to just have a Mac and a PC, since I prefer the Mac for everything else I do creatively.

Apple TV+ was introduced in November of 2019.

$20B for essentially 5 years of buying existing films, and producing new films and series, doesn't seem excessive for the launch of a completely new streaming service. 

The only important issue is that Apple attempt to maintain high standards, like the HBO of old, whatever the budget going forward.

It is also the case that Apple continues to lean towards SciFi, for a key Apple demographic, a niche that Apple has been particularly good at.