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Their primary business is transitioning to selling services and extracting fees. It's their primary growth
by nox101 2y ago
Their primary business is transitioning to selling services and extracting fees. It's their primary growth
- brookst 2y agoHey, I'm way ahead of Apple. I sell my services to my employer and extract fees from them. Do you extract fees too?
- nox101 2y agoI'm not sure what you're point is. My point (which I failed at), is that Apple's incentives are changing because their growth is dependent on services and extracting fees so they will likely do things that try to make people dependent on those services and find more ways to charge fees (to users and developers). Providing services is arguably at odds with privacy since a service with access to all the data can provide a better service than one without so there will be a tension between trying to provide the best services, fueling their growth, and privacy.
- brookst 2y agoI apologize for being oblique and kind of snarky. My point was that it's interesting how we can frame a service business "extracting fees" to imply wrongdoing. When it's pretty normal for all services to charge ongoing fees for ongoing delivery.
- ClumsyPilot 2y agoIt’s about the money, it’s about perverse incentives and propensity of service businesses to get away with unfair practices. We have decent laws about your rights as a consumer when you buy stuff, but like no regulation of services
- brookst 2y agoThere is tons of regulation of services? Everything from fraud / false advertising to disclosure of fees to length and terms of contracts. What regulation do you think is missing? And as someone who presumably provides services for a living, what additional regulations would you like to be subject to?
- adamomada 2y agoSo the new iPad & M4 was just some weekend project that they shrugged and decided to toss over to their physical retail store locations to see if anyone still bought physical goods eh