Re:Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part fo...
by codeflo on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:52PM
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Somehow I doubt it. If that were the case, we'd see a lot more effort to make the iPads true productivity devices, and a lot less effort to modernize Mac hardware.
Re:Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part fo...
by Synaesthesia on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:08PM
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They make almost all their profits from hardware, and use good software as a strategy to sell more hardware.
Re:Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part fo...
by revicon on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:47PM
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Apple's gross margin percentage for its services segment (App Store, Apple Music, AppleCare, Apple Pay, iCloud storage services, AppleCare warranties, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, and the Apple Card) is almost twice that of the products segment.
In 2021, the gross margin percentage for the services segment was nearly 70% as compared to the 35% gross margin percentage from the products segment.
https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology-media-an...
Re:Inside Apple’s Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part fo...
by Synaesthesia on Monday September 25, 2023 @12:13PM
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Yes but it's a small fraction of the profit they make from their hardware sales.
They have a much better chance to do this in their walled garden environment of iPhones and iPads rather than on OSX where they face competition from other vendors.
They have no incentive to make it easier to be mobile on your macbook when they would much rather you be on your iPhone and iPad instead.
Someday they would really love for macbooks to go away and for everyone to use iOS for everything as they will own the entire environment and competition is much less.