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by culturestate
2178 days ago
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> Apple is selling a phone and a computer. Even if this were true I don't think it would matter because Apple sells a lot of phones, but anyway this is a gross oversimplification of what Apple is in 2020. The services business alone - App Store, iTunes, etc. - is almost $50 billion a year. Apple nets as much money selling digital goods as Samsung does from its entire line of business. They also make the only smartwatch consumers care about, headphones that have become status symbols, the canonical tablet (everything is an iPad even if it isn't), one of the most popular STBs in the world, and a metric ton of accessories and peripherals. The money doesn't come from accounting fraud or tricking people; it comes from making really good stuff that lots of people want to buy. |
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the apple watch? the one that only iphone users have, because they have an iphone?
headphones? who buys apple headphones for their android phone again?
ipad? the thing that runs the os and the store from the iphone, which no one who isn't interested in phones would buy? people who don't like iphones won't buy an ipad. it is literally the same target market. whoever makes the new 'cool phone to have' is going to also make a new pad. phones and pads are tied.
and the accessories for all that - again, dependent on the phone 100%.
lots of people want to buy it (if by lots you mean a tiny fraction of the people). margin is high - it's not tricking people, it's selling the product as 'premium.' that tiny percentage of people agree. it's not actually premium for everyone else, since you don't own the device, and features are limited. when's the last time you chromecast hn to your big tv screen from your iphone again? how about plugging into a friend's computer and grabbing a music folder? he doesn't have itunes, and it's not a mac. how about storing your presentation meetings and some vm images for a product demo you want to do for work - or do you need a usb flash stick for that.
it's not 'really good stuff.' it's 'fad' - who in their right mind would wrap a phone in glass - those things fall a lot. would you buy a car made of glass?
everything you gave as an example is a fad that goes away in a minute when it's not cool anymore. it's no mark of a successful company. it's like calling a guy with a #1 hit a success. do you remember 'who let the dogs out?' so does everyone else. now, the iphone is no dog. it's pretty and shiny. a better example is rico suave. he makes shampoo now i hear.