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Facebook considers telling users enabling tracking keeps app 'free of charge'
Did anyone notice how they deceitfully play with words?
First they say they are tracking some Data - avoiding saying they are tracking people!
Then they try to seed confusion by saying "how we limit the use of this information if you don't turn on this setting", like if people choose the negative option ("not to track") Facebook will get information.
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European Commission says Apple is in breach of EU competition law
Apple is not free of criticism but this is crap!
Any company is able to advertise and sell subscriptions outside the App Store.
Just because there are some costumers that don’t know about it, is no reasonable excuse to go after a store that sells something at an higher price...
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Apple posts record $89.6B in Q2 revenue on back of across-the-board growth
I agree! I can imagine that every electronics segment (PCs, tablets, smartphones) will see a significant drop in sales (year over year) in the last months of this year, not just Apple but the all market. The pandemic effect will dissipate, after a lot of people bought machines that they would not have bought under regular conditions. With most people returning to a normal daily life, we will not see a rush to buy new devices.melgross said:Being realistic, Apple could reach $340 billion this year if the next two quarters hit $70 billion each.
but with all the euphoria around, I’d like to remind people about what happened in 2016, 2017 and 2018. 2016 also had a major factor for about a 50% sales increase in iPhones because of the new large sizes. I tried to tell people that sales could be lower next year, and possibly even for the year after that. The reason was that people bought the big phones in 2016 who would otherwise have bought a phone the year after, and even some, the year after. Then, those people wouldn’t buy a phone in those years. That turned out to be true before sales began to rise again, despite pundits stating that Apple had seen “peak” iPhone.
this year, we have the pandemic. Many companies are seeing large sales lifts if their products fall into the area where people who are staying home would want and need. Computing and telecommunications were two of those areas. Food delivery services were another. Apple’s sales rise of 54% is stupendous, but I believe that some of that would have been next year, and some from the year after that, just as in 2016. So don’t be surprised if the might be a sales fall next year if the pandemic is mostly gone, and people are getting back to normal. Then, as a result, don’t be surprised if those wonderful pundits start talking about “peak” Apple, with a drop in share price.
The PCs will probably have a big crush in sales, considering how much schools and students spent buying computers for online classes. That much investment will not happen again, ever. Maybe Apple will be able to soften the decline with the new Macs, but Windows and ChromeOS PCs are going to see a very steep decline. -
Apple posts record $89.6B in Q2 revenue on back of across-the-board growth
well, it doesn’t seem like it. The Americas was the region with least growth, significantly bellow the average. The rest of the world was responsible for more than 70% of the revenue growthseankill said:All those stimulus checks going to electronics.
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Apple products must come with three-year warranty in Spain
Prices will probably go up but not by much. The warranty in Spain is already 2 years, and there are other European countries with more demanding laws and yet the price isn’t too different.dee_dee said:Congratulations Spaniards, prices for your Tech gadgets are about to go up!
