While iPhone sales remain stagnant, Apple services hit $10B in revenue

Post by gehsty » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

bunnycorn wrote: post #90

gehsty wrote: post #86

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Its also ironic apple are suing Qualcom regarding licensing fees which are paid as a percentage of the hardware cost, as they believe that this means Qualcom profit from apples innovation unfairly, you could argue that Apples policy is the same with the App Store - why do they get a percentage? They add no extra value for high value transactions, surely a low fixed fee would be more aligned with apples values :)

Because most of the R&D that Qualcomm does (and as a fabless, IP is their real business) ends up on Android phones, while Apple pays the biggest slice. Therefore, they are getting their chips from Intel. Apple doesn't have anything to do with Qualcomm anymore, they get the package from Intel. Qualcomm can battle Intel in court if they want. Good luck for them...

Post by zyang » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 2:35 PM UTC

beerlord wrote: post #23

Apple takes a 30% commission on any revenue passing through the store, and 15% on subscriptions. These fees are exorbitant - they are merely ringing a credit card, transmitting a few megabytes of data, and performing a basic examination of the app itself. The oligopolistic position that they hold is their main point of value.

Post by pbhjpbhj » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

hugs wrote: post #81

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #48

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Nothing physical can keep growing forever.

Except, maybe, the universe itself?

Post by empthought » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 7:05 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #85

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I don't think you understand what a "free market" is. This is a free market. A more regulated market would require open hardware platforms from hardware manufacturers and open systems from operating systems implementors. Only government intervention can force that to occur.

I'm pretty sure pretty much every sentence in your post is false. I'm talking in context of services provided on iOS, where you cannot have equal competition. Calling that market "free" means you're deliberately ignoring the reason why free market is a good force of society - because it allows the competition between providers to drive down prices and improve on benefits to the user. If some are hamstrung when trying…

Post by ryanwaggoner » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 10:20 PM UTC

RickS wrote: post #108

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No, I’m pointing out that it’s a weird sexist comment that sounds like something from a scene of Mad Men.

I would assert that the genders could be reversed, say, for a husband's handsomeness, or any other quality in any person, and the metric would apply. And of course persons could be removed altogether – that's the point – we started out talking about cell phones. The purpose of my anecdote, and the reason I chose something with such sentiment, is to highlight the semantic difference between words by placing them in a…