Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by tornadoboy55 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:01PM (#13537509)

Nothing is off. Everyone who has even a bit of business sense can very clearly see that Apple is maxing its profit margins. They're dropping anything (relatively) low margin like Airport and Cinema Displays. They're charging an arm and a leg for dongles they know people will need. iCloud is still capped @ 5Gb, yet iCloud sync now by default also syncs your Desktop and Documents folder. That's on top of iPhone and iPad backups, app data (both iDevice and Mac) and iCloud mail. And the price for more storage is not cheap compared to competitors.

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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by gurkendoktor on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:29PM (#13538243)

But then, why have they invested so much R&D in the Touch Bar or the trashcan Mac Pro? Why not just upgrade their existing form factors for maximum profit? Why release a new OS every year that needs gimmicky headlining features when they could spend less $$$ on bugfixes?

Apple seems like it's lazily milking its userbase, but I think the truth is that it spends so much time and attention on pointless crap that all the stuff we care about on HN looks half-assed in comparison.

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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by pjmlp on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:34AM (#13538800)

I care about Swift, Objective-C, OS X and iOS Frameworks.

It looks going pretty ok to me.

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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by tatoalo on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:42AM (#13539323)

50 GB for just .99 per month I think it's absolutely perfect for covering Desktop/Documents syncing and all backups data. 1 TB from Apple is around 120€ per year, while on Dropbox is 99€ if billed yearly or still 120€ if paid monthly...I don't really see a huge difference here. On top of that if I wanted to I could easily upgrade my plan to 2 TB while on Dropbox you must join as a business which forces you to have at least 5 members.

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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by sbuk on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:33AM (#13538794)

Last time I checked, most cloud storage services free tiers are capped at around that mark. In fact Dropbox is still only offer 2GB! Onedrive is the same at 5GB and Google Drive offer 15GB. The price is on a par with the market and it offeres more incremental tiers than most.

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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by tornadoboy55 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:47AM (#13538863)

Dropbox isn't an OS storage, photo storage, mail storage, mobile devices backup all rolled into one (and all of that switched on by default) Comparing with Google Drive is fair, but the aforementioned stuff is why Google offers a fair 15Gb that you won't cap out soon.

I have almost 50Gb of free Dropbox storage btw, through referrals + events like the space race. But that's not really a fair fight anyway, since (aside from Dropbox) no one offers free space in exchange for actions..

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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by sbuk on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:36AM (#13539065)

"I have almost 50Gb of free Dropbox storage btw, through referrals + events like the space race.!" which, I can assure you[0], the significant amount of Dropbox users don't have.

For cost comparison (UK pricing);

iCloud: 50GB: £0.79 200GB: £2.49 1TB: £6.99 2TB: £13.99

Google Drive: 100GB: £1.59 1TB: £7.99

So, Google wins on free tier, but Apple takes it on options and cost thereafter, and 15GB arguably is still insufficient for "OS storage" in any real tangible terms.

[0] no I don't have data. I do know plenty of Dropbox users though, and next to none of them have any extras.

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