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Re:Mechanical Apple Watch from Real E-Waste Apple Watch by itissid on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:00AM (#36257203)
Apple always has had this tussle between making things repairable and sustainable vs selling more of stuff. It does not have to be this way. Don't they make a log of money from non hardware services. I heard apple pay rakes in close to 800m $
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Re:Mechanical Apple Watch from Real E-Waste Apple Watch by FredPret on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:26AM (#36258288)
According to this [0] Apple made 93 b over the past four quarters. The Apple watch is bigger than the entire Swiss watch industry [1] but still a minor part of Apple.

My point being that they’d have to sell a hell of a lot of services to outpace the iPhone, and those services are mostly popular because they integrate into the iPhone. And people want the new shiny ones.

[0] https://ultimatestockpicker.com/company-detail/AAPL/

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertanaas/2020/02/07/apple-wa...

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