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it's a tax. as long as apple's walled garden is so much better than anything else - no reason to worry.
The EU is already investigating Apple management of the App Store. Regulation is coming and one has to wonder much walled and profitable the garden will stay.
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Okay. Let’s make it a little less political. When good intentions meet reality where each house of representative member spends more time fundraising than working ( https://www.termlimits.com/congress-fundraising-priority/ ) and since more states are Republican than Democrat - meaning that the Senate doesn’t represent the people in proportion to the population (every state has two Senators regardless of population),…
> Okay. Let’s make it a little less political... What are the chances that a Democratic President will get anything done? This has instead segued into predicting the hypothetical effectiveness of a unknown future Democratic President... I'm Australian so it's not going to affect me, but from the outside it looks like the U.S. has, with the assistance of a foreign adversary, unknowingly elected a corrupt, cheating, ra…
Just barely, but it was still a half measure and while better than before, they couldn’t go all in even during the first two years because to keep the Democrats on board who were just as beholden to the insurance lobby as Republicans they had to work with private insurance companies. It is still slowly being eroded by both the President and red states that are trying to get it overturned by the judiciary.
They might have a chance with Health Insurance as Obama was able to implement ACA and it looks like its one of Sanders and Warren's major campaign promises to implement Medicare for all,
And no Republican in the Senate or House will go for it and many Democrats are afraid to stand up to the insurance lobby. Even if the Democrats keep control of the house and gain control of the senate, it’s unlikely they will have the 60 vote filibuster proof majority to pass anything. Even if they do, Republican states will fight it tooth and nails in the courts.
Inequality. Warren is especially motivated on reining in Wall Street [1].
She can be “motivated” all she wants, but both parties are in the pocket of Wall Street. She probably won’t even get Democratic support for it.
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The fact that AAPL goes on regular stock buy back sprees with its warchest instead of risking innovation helps with the stability of what should be a declining stock price.
Why should the stock price be declining? Also companies do buybacks when the stock is cheap, not exepensive.
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AAPL is still undervalued compared to stocks like AMZN. Apple's P/E of 17 is amazing compared to Amazons 78. I'm not really sure why their stock isn't traded with the same enthusiasm that other tech companies see.
AAPL seems to have hit its peak in the device market, and can only grow revenues at this point by effectively raising prices on existing customers (that’s what the services category amounts to). This strategy can only take them so far.
That iPhones were less than half their revenue, while still growing overall revenue, is a positive sign. Apple has done a good job of diversifying their revenue base over the last few years. It will be interesting to see how large wearables and services can become as revenue sources, I suspect they are still quite early in their growth.
They're big on services, which would point towards some AI thing but the next step that seems relevant in this area for an Apple-like product is probably general, reliable, human-like AI which is too far off. So my bet is on AR. VR went nowhere but its tech might push AR into something usable. I can totally see Apple producing a Google Glass like device and getting it right, somehow.
Except for iCloud services, which are an embarrassment to technology.
Their contacts management has a 10 year old bug with syncing images and God only knows how they wrote their web app interfaces.
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What's wrong with touch id? I never used face id, but fingerprint sensor on iPhone 8 is good. It unlocks at the same time I'm pressing on button, so most of the time I don't notice it at all. And I almost never getting false negatives. I can't imagine how face id might be better, but I can imagine how it can be worse.
In my experience, Face ID is much faster and more seamless. Basically it's like my phone isn't locked because before I'd even have a chance to think about it, it's unlocked. I was VERY resistant to losing the home button, but I find that the new gestures are much more natural for me. Obviously this is a personal preference thing, but for quite a while I had a touch ID iPad and a Face ID iPhone, and it was really nigh…
Personally I would like to see an iPhone X with TouchID under the display WITH FaceID. So if I have gloves on or my finger is wet, no problem, FaceID takes over. If I'm laying in bed and holding my phone to close to my face, no problem, TouchID authenticates. It also means I can unlock my phone without picking it up off my desk with my finger.
You would get the best of both worlds and none of the drawbacks.
That iPhones were less than half their revenue, while still growing overall revenue, is a positive sign. Apple has done a good job of diversifying their revenue base over the last few years. It will be interesting to see how large wearables and services can become as revenue sources, I suspect they are still quite early in their growth.
Agreed, they'll definitely make some money with Apple Music and Apple News+
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There's nothing _wrong_ with touch ID. It's just that FaceID is way better. It is faster and more seamless, it can work even if you are wearing gloves. Plus, it lets the phone not display sensitive notification details until you are the one looking at the screen(with attention detection on, the default, you have to be really looking at it), only then it will display the details(including actual messages, depending on…
> it can work even if you are wearing gloves This is a tradeoff though, as FaceID doesn't work if you're wearing sunglasses.
Services are making up for it, but they are losing a vast amount of their base customers. 13% drop in sales won't make their services popular. They should have launched 5 years ago, they had way more advantage then. They do still have a big consumer base, but 13% is a lot and it doesn't seem to go upwards.
Seems unwarranted to assume they are actively losing customers. I haven't bought an iPhone in years because I still use a SE, and I still use my 2015 MBP. They haven't lost me in any real sense just because I haven't contributed to a sale _recently_.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/31/wall-street-analysts-worry-a...
serious, I never understood why a company must steadily grow, isn't that in contrast to the limited economical resources we have globally?
We don’t have limited economical resources globally. Wealth creation is not zero sum, 100 years ago we had far less wealth than we had today and in 100 years we’ll have a lot more. Sure, an individual company can stop growing but everything must continue to grow in aggregate to push humanity forward.