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I wish huge companies like Apple would just be happy with being #1 in their category, collecting their enormous profits and paying out dividends to shareholders

I wish huge companies like Apple would just be happy with being #1 in their category, collecting their enormous profits and paying out dividends to shareholders, instead of feeling the need to take over the world.

shapefrog 4y ago
So no itunes, no ipod, no iphones, no apps, no watch, no airpods, no M1 chips, nada...
- jliptzin 4y ago
  Those are all improvements to their main product lines. I’m talking about apple car or credit cards or whatever else they’re going to do. If people at apple want to build a car they should form a new company to do it. I don’t want my phone, computer, car, and credit card all issued by the same company.
  - yunwal 4y ago
    The iPod wasn't a main product when it was introduced. Honestly, if Apple wants to make a car, I'm all for it. What I don't like is that they seem to be ditching their hardware innovation in favor of SAAS like all the other tech companies. It's lazy and all with the hopes of surrounding you with marketing.
    - jliptzin 4y ago
      The problem for me is even if they release a car way better than anything else out there I’m not going to buy it, I don’t want to be so dependent on one company.
      - yunwal 4y ago
        Sure, but that doesn’t seem like a problem to me. In that case you just choose to not buy the car, and there is relatively little impact to you. The SAAS model thing is annoying because it seems like it’s ruining a good thing
        type0 4y ago
        I would rather buy a car that looks like a banana, than Apple car.
        shapefrog 4y ago
        > I would rather buy a phone that looks like a dildo, than Apple phone. People in 2007, they all own one now.
naet 4y ago
I think some of this will be the eventual undoing of some large companies. Take for example facebook; it early on came into a huge market dominance as a relatively simple social media site. Now it's hugely overblown with algorithms trying to wring a couple extra ad dollars out of existing users, at the cost of making the whole platform (imo) a lot worse, and this may be speculation but I think we've reached peak Meta and they will start to lose massive amounts of users and be replaced in the same way they replaced Myspace.
- jliptzin 4y ago
  I agree. I wish myspace were still around, it was so much more fun than facebook. Everyone having their own unique profiles infinitely customizable is something I miss. Facebook came around and replaced everyone's cool, unique clothes at the party with boring uniforms.
strikelaserclaw 4y ago
unfortunately the ceo's only job is to increase share price and they can only do that with unlimited growth.
- yunwal 4y ago
  What I don't understand is, Apple is the most valuable company in the world for a reason. And the reason is that they've developed insanely good and immersive user experiences. And now it seems like they're ready to just throw that out the window in order to compete with Google and Facebook on showing you more marketing content? Makes no sense imo, there's plenty of room for growth in the hardware space

shapefrog 4y ago

So no itunes, no ipod, no iphones, no apps, no watch, no airpods, no M1 chips, nada...

jliptzin 4y ago
Those are all improvements to their main product lines. I’m talking about apple car or credit cards or whatever else they’re going to do. If people at apple want to build a car they should form a new company to do it. I don’t want my phone, computer, car, and credit card all issued by the same company.
- yunwal 4y ago
  The iPod wasn't a main product when it was introduced. Honestly, if Apple wants to make a car, I'm all for it. What I don't like is that they seem to be ditching their hardware innovation in favor of SAAS like all the other tech companies. It's lazy and all with the hopes of surrounding you with marketing.
  - jliptzin 4y ago
    The problem for me is even if they release a car way better than anything else out there I’m not going to buy it, I don’t want to be so dependent on one company.
    - yunwal 4y ago
      Sure, but that doesn’t seem like a problem to me. In that case you just choose to not buy the car, and there is relatively little impact to you. The SAAS model thing is annoying because it seems like it’s ruining a good thing
      - type0 4y ago
        I would rather buy a car that looks like a banana, than Apple car.
        shapefrog 4y ago
        > I would rather buy a phone that looks like a dildo, than Apple phone. People in 2007, they all own one now.

naet 4y ago

I think some of this will be the eventual undoing of some large companies. Take for example facebook; it early on came into a huge market dominance as a relatively simple social media site. Now it's hugely overblown with algorithms trying to wring a couple extra ad dollars out of existing users, at the cost of making the whole platform (imo) a lot worse, and this may be speculation but I think we've reached peak Meta and they will start to lose massive amounts of users and be replaced in the same way they replaced Myspace.

jliptzin 4y ago
I agree. I wish myspace were still around, it was so much more fun than facebook. Everyone having their own unique profiles infinitely customizable is something I miss. Facebook came around and replaced everyone's cool, unique clothes at the party with boring uniforms.

strikelaserclaw 4y ago

unfortunately the ceo's only job is to increase share price and they can only do that with unlimited growth.

yunwal 4y ago
What I don't understand is, Apple is the most valuable company in the world for a reason. And the reason is that they've developed insanely good and immersive user experiences. And now it seems like they're ready to just throw that out the window in order to compete with Google and Facebook on showing you more marketing content? Makes no sense imo, there's plenty of room for growth in the hardware space