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They did remove Parler from the App Store, then reinstated it months later.
Gab is not allowed on the App Store.
You can't expect Apple to allow apps which wilfully tolerate illegal content.
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Who is surprized by these numbers? Since Cook took over from Jobs earnings are the only thing they're focused on. The product quality, developer experience, user experience,.. everything that made Apple great is declining.
And yet competitor products are still worse.
Jobs wanted Apple to deliver the best of the technology that mankind has to offer whereas Cook wants Apple to deliver the best in the market.
As Apple continues to dominate, we can’t forget that the iPhone is approaching >90% utilization by the youth: https://www.howtogeek.com/778355/new-study-says-87-of-us-tee... This means we will soon enough have a situation where a corporation controls the primary medium of communication of the citizens. At this point a smart society would consider how to regulate this situation to safely prevent domination abuse, but…
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They did remove Parler from the App Store, then reinstated it months later.
Gab is not allowed on the App Store.
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> you never blame yourself for buying Apple I do, latest macs have terrible linux compatibility for now, with apple not doing much to help in providing support for it (M1) They keep fixing and breaking their keyboards, the latest macs are better in this aspect but until even 2 yrs ago, they used to break quite frequently Apple making it so hard to develop ios apps on a non apple device, definitely brings additional p…
I was making a general point about an analogy with ‘never get fired for buying IBM’ - which of course wasn’t 100% true either. I get it that Apple products aren’t perfect but in general for most consumers it’s a safe bet.
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I might describe as an Apple product enjoyer; certainly not a hater and everyone seems so polarised. But objectively: monopoly is a bad thing. We’re still recovering from Microsoft’s dominance of desktop computing. Once you have a near monopoly it’s practically impregnable to disintegrate. As you have a wealthy company which is actively harming those efforts.
Objectivity, monopoly is not a bad thing. Even the law doesn’t consider monopoly a problem in itself, Abuse of monopoly is a problem.
It also goes without saying that the law trails ethics and morality; not the inverse.
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Who is surprized by these numbers? Since Cook took over from Jobs earnings are the only thing they're focused on. The product quality, developer experience, user experience,.. everything that made Apple great is declining.
It seems they have arrested some of the decline since Jony Ive left. The newest MacBook Pro has gone back to a formula that works well with processors that blow away the competition. Things are less rosy on the software side though.
The decline for pro users will continue, I think. Of course a behemoth of 2 T$ won't fail tomorrow
Quarter after quarter Tim Cook just mic drops these earnings. Remember all the “Apple is doomed, Tim is a bean counter” comments when Jobs handed over the reigns? Yea. Ok.
This is what makes me nervous. They struck absolute gold with the iPhone, what happens if they don't catch the next wave?
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Give me a break. Those teens can choose between Twitter, Youtube, Discord, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, along with, you know, the rest of the public internet. But 90% of them will still be doing all of this on an Apple device. Yet you think Facebook is the company to worry about, not Apple?
> Those teens can choose between Twitter, Youtube, Discord, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch, along with, you know, the rest of the public internet. So you just demonstrated that teens have so much choice. Why are you concerned that they're doing it on an Apple device then, if an iPhone is just the hardware on which all these apps operate, and has nothing to do with what's said within the apps?
Imagine it was Amazon in this situation. Or Microsoft. Or Google. Or, gasp, Facebook. Where 90% of teens were using a hardware and software platform made by one company. Seems like a problem, right?
Imagine how much people would be freaking out if Facebook came out with a phone and OS and had 90% of teens using it. The wailing and gnashing of teeth could be heard from the Moon.
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There is no serious analysis that presents this scenario with any certainty.
Let’s not miss the forest for the trees. China will continue to grow and get very close to the size of the American economy. China is already the worlds largest economy in terms of raw output (PPP terms). China is already the worlds largest consumer market. There’s a reasonable chance it exceeds USA in nominal GDP it if it grows at 5+% till 2030. This year they grew at 8.5 %
The US GDP grew 5.7% last year.
> China is already the worlds largest consumer market.
No it isn’t.