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  • CLSA reports strong, resilient demand for iPhones in China at the expense of Huawei, Samsung

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    A Chomsky-like "self interest" argument for most online media's flagellation of all things Google might well explain the likely western absence of reporting on this, and the doomsaying around anything Apple related.

    Not a conspiracy, it's wildly observable, and obvious.

    'peak iPhone' is the divergence from "market saturation" talk, which turned out to not be a thing for smartphones, despite years of predicting it would be.

    So rather than say (and immediately be called out for it) that iPhone market saturation is being reached, they're saying "peak iPhone" in the vain hope someone will believe this, and read it as a tipping point for Apple.


    Why?

    This is an interesting question.

    Apple's rival controls both an enormous amount of online advertising distribution, and the direction, nature, intent and quality of traffic and interest.

    Media outlets rely on traffic and interest for advertising revenue.

    And Google's value is directly related to their ability to get in front of consumers, and pull data from them, too.
    cornchip

  • Sen. Franken asks Google to address concerns about Chromebooks, Google Apps collecting student data

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    lkrupp said:
    I don’t know how they get away with it but most people think Google is a technology company. When you point out to people that Google’s core business, the business they make most of their money from, is advertising they are dumbfounded. 
    It gets money from advertising, yes. But it's core business is far creepier than that. It started as a search company, monitoring the content of all websites. And extended this to monitoring everything electronic it can get its hands on.

    At some point they realised monetisation of that information was important to growth to do more monitoring.

    Advertising was the lowest hanging fruit.


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