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Apple phones are full of features. Most of them cost nothing beyond the cost of entry (iPhones are expensive). Presumably all these well engineered features con
by Jolter 4y ago
Apple phones are full of features. Most of them cost nothing beyond the cost of entry (iPhones are expensive).
Presumably all these well engineered features contribute to some holistic image of a “quality product”, whatever that means.
You might as well say “the camera does not bring revenue to Apple so they intentionally didn’t develop it any further”, which is nonsense.
- AnonymousPlanet 4y agoI know people who bought their iPhone specifically for the camera. I never heard of anyone buying an iPhone because of Siri.
- emodendroket 4y agoI have, when it came out, though I can’t say I’ve heard of anyone being excited about enhancements to it since.
- Kamq 4y agoThe camera has one time cost (well, and r&d). Siri has ongoing costs to run the servers.
- emodendroket 4y agoIt’s really easy to exhaust the free photo storage and then pay an iCloud storage fee for the rest of time so I see a clear way in which the camera brings in revenue.
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoNot if you get a phone with enough local storage for your photos and then download them to your computer. The 5 GB of free cloud storage are a joke anyway.
- emodendroket 4y agoIf you ever actually connect your phone to your PC for syncing files between the two you are an outlier power user and not representative of the average user at all.
- geerlingguy 4y agoThere are easier ways to avoid the Apple tax, like uploading photos through Dropbox or Google Drive. But even those are outliers. Most people like the built in convenience of Photos and automatic cloud sync to other devices and it "just works".