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>If on the other hand you have the top selling real estate portfolio management app in the world I don't expect the platform will fold that up in their offering

>If on the other hand you have the top selling real estate portfolio management app in the world I don't expect the platform will fold that up in their offerings Why not? In hindsight, we see "menstrual tracking" as an obvious fit now for a more complete Apple Health, but it's very easy to apply that same exact thinking to menstrual tracking. Using your real estate portfolio management app, ok maybe Apple doesn't replicate it exactly as is, but what's stopping them from turning Apple Home into a more complete home control experience, where you can buy and sell in an easier way or incorporate Airbnb elements. Heck, having more control over your home totally fits their privacy MO. It might seem far fetched now if you don't have the vision, but again same about things like health tracking just 8 years ago! So I would rethink this angle, I don't believe the determining factor is if it's a big market vs a niche market. A weather app is a niche market, yet they gobbled that up. An infinite canvas brainstorming app is a niche market, here comes Apple's Freeform.

bryanrasmussen 3y ago
actually I guess I was unclear earlier, when I said real estate portfolio management I was thinking about a real estate agent managing the properties they needed to flog and contacts for said flogging. >A weather app is a niche market, yet they gobbled that up. I guess you and I will have to agree to disagree about how much of the population is affected by the weather, I say all of it, you evidently much less. Gobbling it up is actually interesting for weather apps, because the weather app, and the clock and other apps that have to do with stuff that everyone in the world needs is basically the kind of thing my argument says will always happen for a platform. >>If on the other hand you have the top selling real estate portfolio management app in the world I don't expect the platform will fold that up in their offerings >Why not? Apple's main business is selling devices with other ancillary businesses growing up to support this primary business, of course from outside it can look like these ancillary businesses are very nice to have indeed and any one of us might be happy to have them but for Apple they are rounding errors. And if you have one of these businesses already and Apple comes calling then it's like the WSJ article points out - not good for your business because Apple might just decide to pack it up in their platform and give it away for free or provide a much better implementation than you can and up the profile of their apps in their store. But in the end Apple is mainly interested in making one of these apps because it enhances their platform for the general population (or their historical target demographics that are still of some importance to the Apple brand). Thus Apple is not going to be making apps targeted at lawyers even though such apps might make a LOT of money because a lawyer app LOT of money to Apple is a pittance.

bryanrasmussen 3y ago

actually I guess I was unclear earlier, when I said real estate portfolio management I was thinking about a real estate agent managing the properties they needed to flog and contacts for said flogging. >A weather app is a niche market, yet they gobbled that up. I guess you and I will have to agree to disagree about how much of the population is affected by the weather, I say all of it, you evidently much less. Gobbling it up is actually interesting for weather apps, because the weather app, and the clock and other apps that have to do with stuff that everyone in the world needs is basically the kind of thing my argument says will always happen for a platform. >>If on the other hand you have the top selling real estate portfolio management app in the world I don't expect the platform will fold that up in their offerings >Why not? Apple's main business is selling devices with other ancillary businesses growing up to support this primary business, of course from outside it can look like these ancillary businesses are very nice to have indeed and any one of us might be happy to have them but for Apple they are rounding errors. And if you have one of these businesses already and Apple comes calling then it's like the WSJ article points out - not good for your business because Apple might just decide to pack it up in their platform and give it away for free or provide a much better implementation than you can and up the profile of their apps in their store. But in the end Apple is mainly interested in making one of these apps because it enhances their platform for the general population (or their historical target demographics that are still of some importance to the Apple brand). Thus Apple is not going to be making apps targeted at lawyers even though such apps might make a LOT of money because a lawyer app LOT of money to Apple is a pittance.