[nebula8804]

>Consumer hardware like the iPhone would not do well when the next model is 20% slower with a 35% retail price reduction.

Yes, American companies know this already: Apple managed to ship $1000 phone even the Chinese coveted for a long while and their innovation at the time was Face ID and the applications it enabled like Memoji.

Just improving spec sheets is a race to 0 profits.

>Don't worry about it... =3

There has got to be something that can move the market as relying on China is just a mirage anyway. Those demographic issues will catch up to everyone eventually. Im not knowledgeable enough to know what this magical innovation will be. (or else I'd pull my savings and get into the business :P )

[Joel_Mckay]

>Just improving spec sheets is a race to 0 profits.

If and only if people chase the low-margin markets. Some people want the best value they can afford, and the ones that don't usually are not worth the sales effort.

Note, most current Apple products are just information-appliances tied to their media service businesses.

>Im not knowledgeable enough to know what this magical innovation will be

Whatever a unique imagination comes up with will probably be just as good or better. Don't worry about it... =3

[nebula8804]

I think you're doing Apple products a big disservice. This is a company that produces a lot of very polished products that don't directly tie into the services, for example the AirPods and the Apple Watch and even their computers continue to drag the industry kicking and screaming into some sort of minimum expectation of performance and efficiency. If you look at just their phone or their Apple TV products, fine that makes sense.

But even if you do just look at their phone,tablet and TV sales, it's not entirely a great argument because Apple is not actually prioritizing services as much as their hardware and although those services constitute a decent percentage of their sales, they are still way below the hardware sales. So you could argue that their service business is a complement to their excellent hardware.

>Whatever a unique imagination comes up with will probably be just as good or better. Don't worry about it... =3

You seem to have a similar very consistent style of speaking in all your comments. I don't know if I am conversing with an AI or not. If not I apologize for the accusation. Take care for now... =3

[Joel_Mckay]

>I don't know if I am conversing with an AI or not

I take time to chat with people in good faith, and while I have authored several ML Patents it would be disrespectful to poison discourse with slop.

My point was Apple shifted into an integrated media service business years ago, and few other firms were able to give consumers the same value due to Jobs early work securing a content portfolio. It is not just the gadgets that drive their revenue model.

Have a great day, =3

[nebula8804]

Ok again, I apologize for the accusation. It is getting more difficult to discern between AI and non-AI and normally I just let it be but the strange pattern I see with your comments made me pause.

I am in agreement with your thesis, im just not convinced that it is their main priority at this time. A company like Sony would also match your description and more so than Apple.

[Joel_Mckay]

Sony had tried to leverage their Film/TV portfolio in the past with limited success, as they were fixated on selling physical media. Yet in Game publishing, the PS5 has taken a great deal of market share from the Microsoft Xbox new "rental" model from the 1990s.

"Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview"

https://youtu.be/TRZAJY23xio?si=u9Dm3u8HDPOfHZpx&t=1751

Controversial guy at times, but understood business content well. =3