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> Apple wants YOU to buy accessories, which are the meat of their business with ridiculous margins. This is laughably false. Accessories are a tiny percentage
by morgante 9y ago
> Apple wants YOU to buy accessories, which are the meat of their business with ridiculous margins.
This is laughably false. Accessories are a tiny percentage of Apple's revenue.
- Reason077 9y agoApple will likely sell tens of millions of AirPods this year. At $159 each, and presumably at very healthy margins. This is no small business, even by Apple's standards! Removing the headphone jack was a marketing-driven decision. AirPods are a cool product, but wouldn't have sold anywhere near as well without the forcing effect of the jack removal. This guy managed to install a fully-functioning jack back into an iPhone 7: https://strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-jack-in-china/ https://strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-...
- morgante 9y agoI never said that accessories don't make Apple money, but that money is a tiny percentage of the amount brought in by devices.
- baddox 9y agoHow many fewer AirPods do you think they would sell of the iPhone 7 still had a headphone jack? Given that every iphone 7 came with lightning EarPods and a lightning to headphone jack adapter, I would guess that AirPods sales would barely have been affected.