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entropys said:

Also, this article is a bit too much a sit on your laurels type of article.  The real question is, how much money has Apple left on the table, how many sales has it not made, by: not adding the to iOS proper file management and peripheral support for the iPad; how many sales has Apple not made because upgrades of memory and storage are too high; how many iPhone sales has Apple not made by not having a small size, up to date iphone? You could go on of course.

Its the sales you don’t make, the market gaps you leave to competitors, that matter. Apple of todays does remind me of Apple in the early nineties. And Jobs is no longer alive to rescue her.

Hi,
somewhat have to agree! Though still a firm Apple believer, the picture got some scratches:
- HomePod: total desaster, stereo mode got lost again an again, Siri not able to find the most common radio stations, and sound quality far behind e.g. the B&W Zeppelin. 
- Beats: cushions of the headphones crumbling to dust, and really just after ocxational use.
- MacBook Pro 2014: Retina foil is loosening, and as it was also just a bavkup laptop with occasional use I just did not see it > no proactive info like with car manufacturers and just 3 weeks outside the callback programm :-(

For me the simple summary: though the company is still making billions, the shareholder value pressure is taking more and mkre its toll and the company is losing its quality angle. Really a shame, as they play with their some differntiator from comlanies like Google, Samsung, Microsoft, etc.

rogifan_new said:

AppleExposed said:

Don't bite the Apple that feeds you.

This may be an early move is desperation due to Apples coming service.

I hope Apples service dominates like everything else Apple does. Couldn't care if Netflix became the next Nokia.

So you want Netflix to fail because they don’t want to give Apple 30/15% cut? How is that good for anybody?

Totally agree with rogifan_new. There is a thing called "competition", monopoly so far only served the monopoly owner, never consumers. And though I like the enthusiasm, being an Apple fan myself, but given the recent product diversity and general market conditions I see too major issues with the movie service in particular and the charging of fees in general :

1. The level of bugs have significantly increased for a while, Apple is losing focus on doing things right. Siri, HomePod, iOS sync between devices, and generally looking more into peoples day-to-day life and the ways they use software to remove a lot of the small little obstacles particularly iOS and macOS, are just some examples. Also it took them many years from iDIsk to iCloud Drive to get something remotely competitive to Dropbox running. It does not make me confident them approaching another line of service, as much as I would like to see it, don't get me wrong on this!

2. Why should any company accept a 30% cut? To me iTunes becomes more and more a service like any other payment service. Yes, iTunes itself may get credit card charges which they have to path through, but I think they should just do it as for Apple Pay, i.e. a small cut of the payment fee, that seems fair and I doubt that the service providers would have a problem with that.

So overall, greed is never a good adviser when you want to keep both suppliers AND customers stay on board, best is to find a balance everybody can live with. All the recent quality issues (e.g. the bending problem of the new iPad Pro) and excessive fees may hurt Apple badly going forward. And I am personally considering a single developer who spent days and nights on getting the result on the App Store (and already pays for the Apple Developer program); a 30% cut is just outrageous and this community might be grateful that some biggies pave the way for a change (even for solely selfish reasons ;-) ... but like I said, this is just my personal opinion.

saarek said:

rwx9901 said:

Good grief the things that people belly ache about.

Do the people that own this realize what they've got in their possession?  Talk about first world problems.  So, it's got a slight bent in it.  Does it hamper performance?  No, it does not.

I wish my life were so in tune with goodness that stupid crap like this would bother me.

The sky is falling the sky is falling!!

Step back from your perfect world and take a deep breath.  So many other things to consider and concern ourselves with on this planet and you all focusing on crap like this.  Unbelievable.

Yes, people who spend a significant amount of money on a product should be happy that it is less than perfect from the day they bought it. Fuck em, self entitled moaning idiots who don't know how lucky they are to be able to spend £769+ on an iPad. I'm with you man, they piss me off too! /s

Wow...I am always amazed how people start interfering a conversation like this with sort of a crusade. Personally, I have met NO person in my decades long life who lives perfect. The person complaining about plastic waste may travel regularly by airplane, the one complaining about broken rules in the community might be breaking speed limits regularly and by doing so risking childrens lives, etc. I actually experienced all of this, and even worse. So saarek and rwx9901, you feel perfectly comfortable to face the ultimate judgement day and come off clean? Whether it is fair to have the money to spent on such a device is really not the point here, is it?! I know a lot of people who actually saved money for anlong time to spend it on an Apple product or something equally quality-wise on a differnet level. When I buy a loaf of bread and it is burned I would also complain as it does not hold up to the promise. And I am saying that from a position being able to efford such an actual device myself, but have rather spent money on some social donations. I just do not get the point of complaining against complainers of a missed expectation just because I am in a worse condition than they are (and I have been there myself!), really leaves a bitter taste and the effort would be better spent on doing something good!

lkrupp said:

Great but can someone explain to me the reason the TV might be preferred over other boxes for these companies? Is it just Apple offering to provide the equipment free for the PR or is it because of some feature or capability the TV has?

I live in Germany, and the Telekom is offering their Entertain TV just via buying or renting a set-top box. They even have an app for the iPad, so technically it would be a piece of cake to make it available on the Apple TV. Instead you have to pay extra money nearly comparable to the monthly fees you pay for Netflix or Amazon Prime.

Not only is this ecologically a big waste to produce dedicated hardware where you can rely on generic hardware like the Apple TV, it is also another device using space and cables in your home. So I actually do not care if it is for Apple TV or other similar consoles, if companies like Netflix can offer it why do the other content suppliers waste money on additional hardware development...even if it is a source of income, I would prefer them to focus on content! And in a digital age companies need to look at the vertical component chain and focus on what they are really good at, at least in my humble opinion.