[gizmo]

Apple is a 3 trillion business that is out of growth drivers. They will need to squeeze more money out of everybody in the ecosystem to appease wall street. Or launch a new 500bn product line but I don’t think they have anything big in the pipeline.

[sitkack]

The problem is that a large percentage of that pie is just rent seeking from App Store fees. The App Store should be opt in for all parties.

I think the analysis in this thread is correct, Apple wants to remove the “loophole” that was originally the only way to get apps on the device.

[pretext-1]

They’re working on cars for sure

[andy_ppp]

Will the Apple Car get slower over time and have the battery become unusable after 2 years?

[andy_ppp]

Impossible to service, imagine the cost of Apple Care, my guess would be $300 per month plus the cost of the car which will be $100k?

[kibwen]

When turning the steering wheel to the left causes the car to veer right, will the official response be "you're holding it wrong"?

[gizmo]

No money in cars. (That's why Tesla insists it's a robotics/AI company.)

[xyst]

I agree. Money is not in the cars. Money is in the data collected from the users - 360 degree camera footage, offloading AI training risk to users, and of course collecting all of that sweet user data [1]. In some cases, the car manufacturer will somehow collect your sexual history.

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-...