Apple is slowly pulling away consumer ownership of their devices and is turning into an …
… Apple is slowly pulling away consumer ownership of their devices and is turning into an advertisement company. I honestly believe that is at the expense of the next 90 years. And this is rather more the point that I tried to make: short term profits at the expense of long-term customer satisfaction.
Usually people decrying short-termism mean focuses on quarters rather than years. Are you saying Cook’s 10+ years that took the company from $100B/year to $400B/year are the short term, and it is at the expense of the next 90 years?
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“Apple is doom any day now”. That’s been the narrative for over 40 years.
So which customers aren’t satisfied? The people on HN that want to run Linux on the Apple Watch?
> turning into an advertisement company
Apple 2022 revenue: $398B[0]
Apple 2022 ad revenue: $4B[1]
It is possible, with a lot of effort, that Apple could go from advertising representing 1% of revenue to maybe 10% over the next 10 years. I don't think that's realistic, but maybe. "Turning into an advertising company" is maybe overstating?
Besides, the whole reason Apple is in advertising is that free-with-ads is an important business model for media and developers, and the other players are pretty horrible. Me, I hate ads and will always pay directly for apps/media, and I don't like what Apple's doing in ads. But I think you're being a little over-dramatic there.
0. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/revenue
1. https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/22/23513061/apple-iphone-...