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  • Apple to sell third-party streaming service subscriptions through 'TV' app, report says

    rogifan_newrogifan_new
    Can someone explain to me why Apple should get a cut of someone else’s subscription revenue? I’d ask the same question of Google or Microsoft or anyone else. Apple doesn’t host the content, they don’t do marketing or promotion. And if these companies could offer their own payment system in-app they would. If the argument is they wouldn’t exist were it not for Apple’s platform then why isn’t Apple taking a cut of every Uber and Lyft transaction?
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • iPhone X was world's best-selling smartphone model in first quarter

    rogifan_newrogifan_new
    jungmark said:
    avon b7 said:
    netmage said:
    avon b7 said:

    Well, if Apple is the second largest smartphone handset manufacturer annually (far behind Samsung and very slightly ahead of Huawei), and only made one phone, it would have the top selling model. It doesn't have just one model but it does have very few. Both Samsung and Huawei have different strategies to Apple and have far more models.

    Clearly they are unlikely to have a top seller (but it isn't impossible) with so many models available.

    Huawei has far more marketshare than Apple in China but has no single model in the top 5 (or top 10 IIRC).

    Apple has three current high end models for sale, how many high end models do Huawei and Samsung have?

    The key is to realize the many economy model phones that other companies sell are not in Apple's market and aren't competition for iPhone, so they don't split the share that matters and at which Apple thoroughly dominates both in profits and market share. 
    The key in tems of unit sales is how many you ship in a full year. That's where the big picture is.
    Unit sales is not the big picture, profit is. Profit is the air corporations breathe. Repeat: profit is the air corporations breathe. 

    Youre worshiping at the Church of Marketshare because you’re loyal to a cheap chinese knockoff brand, and sales is all one can cheerlead... They copy their designs and don’t rule profit. What else is there to celebrate?
    I’m curious about this. I don’t remember in the early to mid 2000s Apple fans being obsessed with how much profit the company was making. And profit being the measure of whether the company was great or not. I own some Apple shares so yes I want to see the company do well financially but as a user of their products I care about them making great products that people want to buy and that make a difference in the world. I don’t really care if they’re generating the most profits. And when Apple does increase share in markets of course they highlight it and celebrate it. This idea that market share can only come from selling cheap garbage is nonsense.
    Profit is always a measuring stick. If it wasn't, Apple would have sold iPod and imacs on razor thin margins. 

    The difference for Apple's market share comes from having desirable "great" products rather than the cheap shogun/spaghetti approach by everyone else. 
    What Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson:

    "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products," Jobs told Isaacson. "[T]he products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything."


    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Tim Cook debunks rumors of slow iPhone X sales

    rogifan_newrogifan_new
    And yet CNBC still runs with this garbage:


    Alex1N

  • Amazon touts 100M Prime users as Apple quietly passes a quarter-billion paid subscriptions...

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    rufwork said:
    [That 250 mil includes this and that...] and App Store continuing payments.

    Oh, DED. Of course if you include every freaking HBO, Showtime, MLB, Overcast, NY Times... subscription, Apple has more than Amazon. 

    But those aren’t Apple’s subscriptions. They get a cut, and that’s great for my AAPL, but let’s not compare Apple’s apples to Whole Foods’ oranges.

    (◔_◔)

    Of course DED would use an Amazon shareholder letter to spin up a positive article on Apple and how Apple > Amazon.  Let’s see if he writes a feature/editorial around AAPL shares being down 2% pre-market with TSMC offering weak guidance attributing it to softening demand in the premium smartphone market.
    muthuk_vanalingam1983

  • Apple considers cheaper HomePod in face of lackluster sales

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    nunzy said:
    Apple will never join a race to the bottom.  If anything, they will come out with a Homepod Pro.
    iPod Nano and Shuffle say Hi.
    SiriLovermuthuk_vanalingam