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Profit can't grow forever. At some point your company is so saturated you have to wring water from stone, literally nickel-and-diming people.
by BearOso 4y ago
Profit can't grow forever. At some point your company is so saturated you have to wring water from stone, literally nickel-and-diming people.
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- sneak 4y agoThe best is when you buy a new $1400 phone and it starts panhandling you for $4.99 to upgrade your iCloud Backup storage.
- boplicity 4y agoThey're not asking for $4.99 -- from their perspective, once you sign up, you'll likely stay for years. $4.99 a month for ten years is $600. And you'll likely need to upgrade your iCloud storage at some point, because you'll run out of space, increasing your value even further. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people paying for iCloud now will remain iCloud customers for the next 20 years, or even longer.
- skyyler 4y agoIs there nothing that can be done about this? Must profit continue to grow forever for a company to be "good"?
- Gigachad 4y agoPlenty of companies don’t have much if any growth, utilities for example. It’s just Apple is no where near the end of the line for growth and new opportunities.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoYour company transitions to dividends. And Apple (AAPL) has already begun that.
- jxramos 4y agowhat's the connection here between growth and dividends? Come to think about it it's something that's carved out in investment products huh: growth stocks, rising dividend stocks, etc. Are growth and dividend payouts semi mutually exclusive or something?
- tedunangst 4y agoA growing company reinvests profits into further growth, developing new products, building new factories, whatever. When you can no longer grow, you return profits to shareholders.
- jxramos 4y agoWow is that so, is this the case because of some fiduciary responsibility or some regulation or is it good will to those invested in the company?