[AnthonyMouse]

It has been like this for years. Apple does some things well, and there are reasons to like those things, but their following is overzealous to the point of kneeling before what is, fundamentally, still a for-profit corporation.

I feel like business schools have failed this generation of management. They look at Apple and see them do something that customers like, but it has a cost to the company, like giving up the ability to track people. So they conclude that it will be an advantage if they defect and make money from ads.

Then they see Apple do something customers hate and get away with it and the lesson they take is that they can get away with it too. But they can't, because the reason why Apple got away with it was by doing the thing the customers liked. And then they can't understand why they can't achieve Apple's margins.

You idiots, do the opposite. Then you can charge Apple's margins from the first one and take their market share with the second one.