> Think about that for 2 seconds. What does it mean?
Apple makes stuff that people want and are willing to pay for.
The Vision Pro is not exactly what I want, nor what a lot of people I know of wanted, and judging by the downsized production numbers, not exactly what a lot of people are willing to pay for.
And?
So you won't buy it. Perhaps even nobody will buy it. Where is the problem?
Re:The Apple $2T Economy
by jauntywundrkind on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:52PM
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Apple and their dragons horde of cash was a prime subject in what I thought was a really excellent article, Intellectual Property and the Fissured Economy. Horded IP had created insurmountable moats around these titans. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37169236 https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/05/intellectual-prop...
Re:The Apple $2T Economy
by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @05:46AM
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>they cant find a single thing on the planet worth investing it in
Be careful what you wish for, they could use the money to buy out every potential competitor just like Adobe, Microsoft, Google et all.
Think about that for 2 seconds. What does it mean?
It shows us in 2023, corporate robots can design a highly optimized runaway process of cash extraction from the chimp troupe, for no reason other than it being possible. There is no purpose to these processes.
When a corporate robot finds a scaling rule it keeps scaling. Scale always needs purpose. Otherwise we end up like Apple. And only fools think the Apple story of mindless scaling is going well or going to end well.