Funny how an announcement looks different depending on the slope of your income. Apple reaching new markets vs apple « reinventing itself » is a complete different story. Apple makes great devices and can leverage that to conquer service subscription, but I don’t think anyone has been impressed by apple online services or technologies on their own merits...
Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
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Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#72I continue to wonder why they don't have or push iPhone as a Services ( The iPhone Upgrade Programme ) and continue to rely on mostly Carriers for Financing. By offering iPhone up to a 4 years terms and bundled with AppleCare+ Thief and Loss and iCloud Backup. With Optional Apple Music, Apple News Magazine, Apple TV and Apple Game. All paid via an Apple Branded Credit Card within Apple Pay backed by Goldman Sachs. Yo…
Huh, I dont know where you are, but here in the States I got my iPhone through 0% financing (amortized over 2 years) program that allows you to get a new phone every year and comes bundled with AppleCare+
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Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#73I continue to wonder why they don't have or push iPhone as a Services ( The iPhone Upgrade Programme ) and continue to rely on mostly Carriers for Financing. By offering iPhone up to a 4 years terms and bundled with AppleCare+ Thief and Loss and iCloud Backup. With Optional Apple Music, Apple News Magazine, Apple TV and Apple Game. All paid via an Apple Branded Credit Card within Apple Pay backed by Goldman Sachs. Yo…
Huh, I dont know where you are, but here in the States I got my iPhone through 0% financing (amortized over 2 years) program that allows you to get a new phone every year and comes bundled with AppleCare+
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Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of my friends and family are ready to give up their Netflix subs. We've seen most of what interests us. Apple on the other hand has unlimited supplies of money and more power to make deals with content providers.
> We've seen most of what interests us. What about all the original content?
TBH a lot of it isn't that good. We also like watching a lot of reruns or series that we already care about.
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#75Great. We are the product now.
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#76If Apple's going to be a services company now, wouldn't it be great if they kept themselves honest (and their products great) by honoring a level playing field for the services they compete with e.g. Spotify? Imagine if services like iCloud, Pages and Mail were comparable to or better than the existing product landscape? Apple's been holding themselves to too low a standard for too long. Maps was a wakeup call for th…
They should, they won't, and either they won't be successful with services, or they will, and it will lead to an anti-trust lawsuit. But the company is just too big to move the needle any other way.
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#77I continue to wonder why they don't have or push iPhone as a Services ( The iPhone Upgrade Programme ) and continue to rely on mostly Carriers for Financing. By offering iPhone up to a 4 years terms and bundled with AppleCare+ Thief and Loss and iCloud Backup. With Optional Apple Music, Apple News Magazine, Apple TV and Apple Game. All paid via an Apple Branded Credit Card within Apple Pay backed by Goldman Sachs. Yo…
That's exactly what they do on the Australian apple site:
https://www.apple.com/au/iphone/
> Get iPhone XR from A$849 when you trade in your iPhone 7 Plus.*
> Now you can get 0% interest for 24 months on iPhone XR when you trade in your current iPhone at an Apple Retail Store. Monthly payments required.
It's the first thing you see on the page, even on mobile, before you when see a picture or any details about the phones themselves. It's also pushed very heavily throughout the entire site as you browse.
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
They could even bundle in a MacBook, iPad, and watch at a higher price tier so that the hard core Apple fans could pay a single monthly subscription fee and always have the latest model of every device.
I wonder if a subscription fee for hardware would appeal to businesses.
Many major PC manufacturers already offer leasing, which could effectively be thought of as a subscription: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/learn/dell-business-lease
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#79Funny how an announcement looks different depending on the slope of your income. Apple reaching new markets vs apple « reinventing itself » is a complete different story. Apple makes great devices and can leverage that to conquer service subscription, but I don’t think anyone has been impressed by apple online services or technologies on their own merits...
>I don’t think anyone has been impressed by apple online services or technologies on their own merits...
I disagree with that. iMessage is perhaps the best IM service out there. iCloud works seeessly across devices, in a way im not sure any other cloud storage solution does
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#80Funny how an announcement looks different depending on the slope of your income. Apple reaching new markets vs apple « reinventing itself » is a complete different story. Apple makes great devices and can leverage that to conquer service subscription, but I don’t think anyone has been impressed by apple online services or technologies on their own merits...
>I don’t think anyone has been impressed by apple online services or technologies on their own merits... I disagree with that. iMessage is perhaps the best IM service out there. iCloud works seeessly across devices, in a way im not sure any other cloud storage solution does
I imagine it’s a lot easier to integrate your storage service with devices when you have the freedom to change the storage APIs on said devices as you see fit