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Apple's value isn't its tech, it's its users. They will sell access to their users and be able to impose whatever conditions they want in line with their "we're

• hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
  > Apple's value isn't its tech, it's its users. So Apple has all these users just because they had a great pitchman who died over a decade ago?? I don't get this rationale at all. Yes, obviously Apple has built a very "sticky" ecosystem, but saying "Apple's value isn't it's tech" is ludicrous to me. Apple depends on at least the belief that it has the best products to sustain its user base. If that belief starts to waver, so will their user base.
  • randomdata 2y ago
    > Apple depends on at least the belief that it has the best products Products are not tech. For example, before Apple Maps, Apple had the arguably best mapping product, but did not have the tech (that was Google's). They are in a similar position with respect to the current crop of AI technologies. They could build their own tech, or they could just go to, say, OpenAI and say: "We have all these users. It would be pretty great if they started using your platform, wouldn't it?"