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Re: Apple Business

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Apple is “late” to everything which is why it’s the leader Being early is the same as being wrong and there’s no business value in costly exploration of new territory at least in the 21st century Name me a single company that is still in business and dominating a market based on being first to market with a new product.

Vision Pro.

They were still late, just not late enough.

Re: Apple Business

#42
> Starting April 14, Apple Business will be available as a free service in the U.S. and 200+ countries and regions to new and existing users of Apple Business Connect, Apple Business Essentials, and Apple Business Manager.

Does this mean — Always Free or Introductory Free for now?

Re: Apple Business

#44
post #14

I wonder if this was timed to lineup with the MacBook Neo launch, which makes the idea of equipping your entire company with Mac laptops a lot more compelling from a cost perspective.

There’s a grey one. So obviously, it was timed.

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#45
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TSMC. They dominate the semiconductor market because they're consistently first to market with the world's most advanced chip fabrication.

But they're an example of the same phenomeon; they were founded in 1987, long after chip fabrication was a thing. They just did it right .

They took extreme risks on EUV lithography and accumulated market share by being the first to shrink nodes.

Re: Apple Business

#46
post #13

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Vision Pro.

Honestly seems like a supportive argument. Yea, your amendment clearly shows Apple isn't always right/late, but Vision Pro is an example of them being early and how far they miss when they're early hah. (I don't have a side in this discussion)

And I’d add that like AI, there was clearly a conflict inside Apple between people who wanted to be in the game and the people who correctly recognized that it wasn’t yet where most consumers wanted.

Re: Apple Business

#48
post #8

Who will Apple serve? Users, Apple or their partners? It has always been Apple > Users > Partners. There's a reason why Microsoft is still the king of enterprises. Anybody getting involved with this with Apple will deserve everything thats coming their way

Thousands in annual savings?

Re: Apple Business

#49

> Starting April 14, Apple Business will be available as a free service in the U.S. and 200+ countries and regions to new and existing users of Apple Business Connect, Apple Business Essentials, and Apple Business Manager. Does this mean — Always Free or Introductory Free for now?

I understand it's free to set up the business but iCloud, AppleCare and Email/Calendar storage past the free (I suppose tiny) allowance are paid. As Apple loves, freemium with in-app purchases!

Re: Apple Business

#50
post #3

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Apple always had a B2B component. This is just the latest attempt to not make it completely subpar.

This sucks. This page makes it clear this is the motivation for "Ads on Maps", as they talk about it prominently here - they are now directly selling the attention of their device consumers to their business customers. I guess they were doing that before in the App Store, which is of course also awful.

Their voice assistant is somewhat opinionated about how it will search the App Store for you

https://i.ibb.co/zV8d9gbc/IMG-2177.jpg

They dynamically reveal 1-3 results and only show a “see more options in App Store” button when they feel like it.

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