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Apple still primarily makes money from hardware sales. They'd rather get you working out, buy an airpod pro, and subscribe to fitness+ than spend time on Facebo
by dannyw 5y ago
Apple still primarily makes money from hardware sales. They'd rather get you working out, buy an airpod pro, and subscribe to fitness+ than spend time on Facebook.
- londons_explore 5y agoTrue, but there are still people who don't use their phone much, and therefore don't really mind if they have a 5 year old iPhone. Apple intentionally making that group of users bigger could be very bad for revenue
- deanclatworthy 5y agoApple made 72.3B revenue from app sales in 2020. This is not an insignificant amount of money, regardless of where it stands next to their hardware sales. Furthemore, if people are using smartphones less maybe they'll realise they don't need an expensive smartphone to check whatsapp...