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kiltedgreen said:

“I made the mistake …”  

That’s not an appropriate use of the word “mistake” that matches what you will find in any dictionary!

Really?

"An action or judgment that is misguided or wrong" from the OAD sounds like it fits.

sbdude said:

winstoner71 said:

They should change United States to “The Stolen Lands of the Natives”. For accuracy. 

Every land had someone living on it before someone else came along. This trope has long since been played out.

LOL You sound like the kind of person that would yell at Native Americans to go back to where they came from.

Alex1N said:

I think that we need a ‘laugh’ button instead of the new ‘dislike’ button. I’m serious.

I like that idea.

In fact, I refuse to use the Dislike button even when disliking a comment. I'll state my issues in text instead of a silent downvote.

Wesley Hilliard said:

I mean, I personally think the name change echos what other authoritarian nations have done in an attempt to assert more control over its borders and it's a bad move if you don't want to be called a fascist. However, if this is Apple's real solution to addressing the name change, then I think it's perfect.

I vote for Gulfstantinople or Leningulf if they're going to make the change.

mpantone said:

Apple buying TikTok -- or any other social network for that matter -- makes zero sense based on Apple's business model. They are a software/services company whose offerings work best on their proprietary hardware. Their quarterly earnings reports have explained this for decades.

I've heard this argument countless times regarding Apple's so-called business model and kind of company they are. When they created the iPod / iTunes, when they offered iTunes to Windows, when they got into making/selling/renting/streaming licensed content on their iTunes, App, and TV+ store, when they bought PA Semi, when they announced the iPhone, when Cook said Apple will being pushing heavily into services in the coming years, when they researched building what I assume is an EV, when they built a watch, and on and on.

The bottom line is that Apple is a company that wants to turn a profit. The most foolish thing a company can do is pigeon hole themselves. They have certain strengths from decades of experience and expertise, but that doesn't mean they can't use that to move into other industries

 Imagine if a company that produces energy via mining for coal only ever perceived themselves as a coal mining company? Eventually they die out. Now, if they look at themselves as an energy company they can mine for coal and still research and develop other ways in which to produce energy.

Blockbuster is a great example of not seeing the bigger picture. With 16% of their revenue coming from late fees they chose not to invest in an online service because it eat that revenue. They were so focused on the current state of business that they lost everything because of it. No company can truly innovate if you only ever focus on the current quarter's earning report.

TikTok -- list most other social networks -- operates on a completely different business model. Those services make money selling user activity data to advertisers, etc.

This is why Apple shuttered their ill-fated iTunes Ping (mostly focused on music discussion) in 2012 and has never since dabbled in social networking since. It's also why they don't run their own search engine even though they have been perfectly capable of spidering the entire Internet and setting up their own search engine for the past 25+ years.

Apple had an ad business for over 6 years called iAd. This didn't change their business model and that was absolutely using targeted ads the way Meta and Alphabet do. Apple could absolutely make a search engine. I'd love for them to make one like Kagi that's excellent. The issue here isn't ability, but that they get a lot of money from Alphabet to make Google the default. $20 billion per annum, IIRC.

Apple buying TikTok is nonsense, just like Insta, Snap, Path, imeem, Myspace, et cetera ad nauseam. For Apple to consider such a move would require a fundamental change in their business model from the top down. For sure Tim Cook and the senior management team are not the people to do this. And the current board of directors aren't applying any pressure on Apple management to move this direction.

You say that and yet you already acknowledged that Apple bought Ping. Buying Ping didn't change their business model, and neither would TikTok if they bought it. While I agree that they won't and shouldn't, your entire premise regarding business model is wrong.