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Tim Cook’s Apple is all about increasing the Services Revenue. The line has to go up. Apple exists for their shareholders, not users.
by pornel 3y ago
Tim Cook’s Apple is all about increasing the Services Revenue. The line has to go up. Apple exists for their shareholders, not users.
- Terretta 3y ago> The line has to go up. Apple exists for their shareholders, not users. Who does Epic exist for? This "they exist for the shareholders" is an argument that cancels itself out, as it's true of all firms. So you have to look at who's next on the list. Is the company for people looking to place ads? Is the company for publishers of games? Who is it for?
- antisthenes 3y ago#1 is major shareholders #2 is senior management and senior employees (so minor shareholders and OG value creators) #3 is probably a tossup between regular employees and customers, e.g. doing the bare minimum not to alienate either one.
- ben-schaaf 3y agoEpic is privately owned with Tim Sweeney having a majority. One man's whim is a lot more dynamic than a mass of public shareholders' expectations.
- pornel 3y agoFor a while Apple existed for Steve to make products he’s proud of. I have a very deep resentment for the App Store, because that was a turning point towards controlling the platform, and start of a feudal relationship with developers. They’ve went from (half-assed) open source efforts to outright banning GPL completely. They’ve went from trying to use open protocols to putting DRM throughout entire stack on everything they could. Apple has been high margin company with expensive products, but arguably worth the cost if you appreciated their style and attention to detail. But the OS and services side has shifted to just extracting as much money as they can, because they can. Their 27% cut on purchases made outside of iOS is just pure greed and spite.