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Exactly; those are not mainstream services any more.
by benburleson 9y ago
Exactly; those are not mainstream services any more.
- sandstrom 9y agoAgree, they are big but that's because they are pre-installed on hundreds of millions of hardware devices. Not because the services themselves are particularly good.
- bykovich2 9y agoWhat do you mean? I use iMessage probably hundreds of times a day (to my chagrin, but I digress). The Music Store has been overtaken by streaming services, but it made a titanic impact on the market -- and as much hate as Apple Music gets, it's actually a completely adequate service.
- eridius 9y agoYou're kidding, right? iMessage has massive scale. Several years ago, Apple revealed they were processing "several billion" iMessages per day, and it's hard to imagine that number hasn't simply grown since then. As for the iTunes Music Store, I could believe that it's not used as often as previously because of the popularity of streaming services, but Apple also runs one of those streaming services (Apple Music), and they run iCloud Library which gives you access to all of your purchased music on all of your devices, and of course they also run the iOS App Store and you can't argue that doesn't have massive scale.