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  • Facebook CFO says personalized advertising 'under assault' by Apple privacy changes

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     Fischer referred to Apple's business as "one that sells luxury hardware or subscription services, mainly to consumers like us who are fortunate enough to have a lot of discretionary income in some of the world's wealthiest countries."

    ha - what elitist rubbish. Given the broad range of people I see using iPhones this claim is nonsense and indicates Apple products are readily accessible for many people.  As for services, the price points for their services fall into the same range as its competitors. 

    I think what he is really saying is that Apple users are willing to spend and are the key market Facebook wants to target for its advertising model. Taking away that market from Facebook is going to hurt Facebook's income and wealth. 
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  • Congressman says antitrust hearing confirmed Apple's 'deeply disturbing' behavior

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    How did the hearing confirm deeply disturbing behavior if they didn’t let ANYONE fully answer any of the questions? As for Apple, I still can’t understand how they can be considered a monopoly if they don’t control the smartphone market? Or how charging 30% is being abusive, when servers, bandwidth, development, et al, costs money, plus any company is trying to make money out of their products. Is there a company out there that sells a product and foregoes absolutely all profits? I doubt it. And if there’s one or some, I doubt they survive for long.
    Apple has 58.78% of the mobile market in the USA
    58.78% does not make one a monopoly.  It means they have a majority share.  Based on the definition of monopoly: 

    Definition: A market structure characterized by a single seller, selling a unique product in the market. In a monopoly market, the seller faces no competition, as he is the sole seller of goods with no close substitute.

    Therefore, Apple  are not the sole seller of smart phones.  They do face competition. There are plenty of close substitutes.


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  • Notes of interest from Apple's second quarter 2020 earnings report

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    davebarnes said:
    "Slight elongation" in iPhone replacement cycle"
    Whatever.
    Over a decade, not meaningful.

    Same for iPads.
    They are good enough and people are using them 'forever'.
    Again, over a decade...

    Same for Macs.
    I am the 5+ year mark on mine. Have never gone so long. Good enough.

    But, in all cases, [almost] no one is leaving the Apple ecosystem.
    And the fact the replacement cycle is increasing is something to be applauded. It reflects the quality and durability of these products. That's a really good thing, and sadly it's lacking with many products produced today.
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  • Editorial: Pro Display XDR and Apple's Grand Stand

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    agilealtitude said:
    Not sure I’ll ever change my opinion that $1000 for a hunk of aluminum is reasonable. It’s no worse, however, than a $55 piece of rubber that we buy from Apple to protect our phones that likely costs less than a buck to make. 
    What you should ask yourself: Is $55 a good price to pay to protect my phone with a case?  If the answer is yes then you pay $55... and are satisfied.
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  • How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth

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    Lou M said:
    Windows won in part because of Microsoft's, shall we say. shrewd, dealings with IBM and other manufacturers.
    By keeping the rights to DOS, and then by getting contracts that got them paid FOR EVERY PC A MANUFACTURER MADE,
    REGARDLESS OF OS, Microsoft basically closed the market for competing Wintel OSes for PC cloners.

    Then bake in the economies of scale drive by an 'open' (thanks to COMPAQ's lead) architecture, and the explosion of
    Wintel was inevitable.  As stated, a cloning economy for MacOS was wrong from the start.  Apple needed to change the
    game, which they did starting with the iPod, then iTMS, then iMAC...and the rest is history,

    Just remember, Android may gave 95% unit share of the phone market, but Apple has 95% profit share.
    Which would you rather have?



    And Apple's share of the smartphone market in actual units is very  significant. Significant enough to drive very large amounts of $$$$ its way from phone purchases and now from services.  It is way beyond niche. It is a major critical mass of users. 
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