Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap

Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by ehsankia on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:18PM (#24212974)

That's a bit misleading. What actually happened is Apple first created said smartphone market, and then used their advantage to create a walled garden to keep people in, and also indirectly force others to enter the garden (iMessage, FaceTime, etc).

The only reason their luxury good is sustainable is exactly because people have to join it to be able to communicate with their friends, and can't leave.

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Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by zepto on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:23PM (#24213081)

A very strange comment, which is far from the experience of anyone I’ve ever heard of.

I have an iPhone, but I communicate with my friends using WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, and Skype as well as iMessage.

Some of them have android phones, and some of them have iPhones. And some of the iPhone users use Facebook messenger, Signal, and WhatsApp, to communicate with me

I only use FaceTime to communicate with certain in-laws, and the some of my extended family and some local friends use Amazon Echos for video.

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Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by ehsankia on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:55PM (#24213577)

I'm not saying communicating other ways is not possible, but the majority of people actually do care about "blue bubbles vs green bubbles".

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Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by zepto on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:02PM (#24216422)

I think that was true 5 years ago when SMS was still a thing.

The majority of people are comfortable with Facebook and WhatsApp now.

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Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap by zepto on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:02PM (#24224646)

Also - caring about the colors of bubbles is very different from ‘unable to communicate with their friends’.

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