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How would Sherlocking make financial sense for Apple? Ostensibly it picks a share of these 400m that it wouldn’t when these are iOS features. Do I get this wron

• philosopher1234 2y ago
  It sells more iPhones, no? And iCloud subscriptions potentially
• jaggederest 2y ago
  Forest vs trees, Apple makes their money by making hardware, so making the software cheaper increases the total value they can harvest. After all, why else would iOS be free?
• naet 2y ago
  Maybe seen as an individual app being replaced it doesn't seem to make a positive return, but if it improves the overall iPhone experience enough to keep making iPhone sales that is a large source of revenue. As one random example, I have a pixel phone and I used to use the included Google podcast app, until they pulled the plug on it recently. Then I had to test a bunch of alternatives to see which was free or ad supported or paid, which had rough feature parity with my old one, which one I liked or disliked. After trying a few that I ended up not liking because they had intrusive ads or subpar interface I eventually found an open source one that was good enough (although it lacks some discovery features to find new things I might be interested in). And then I had to go down the rabbit hole of finding a random battery saver option and white listing the app so it wouldn't get randomly shut off when I was listening to something in the background. Contrast all that to the experience of an iPhone which has a podcast app out of the box that works great, free, no fuss or research and is supported by Apple. I'm still on my pixel but that type of friction can add up to a competitive advantage.