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By what metric is Apple poorly run other than some HN commenters personal opinions about their products?

• jncfhnb 2y ago
  Apple Vision Pro was a flop, iPhone sales have been weak for years, the Apple car got canceled after ten billion dollars, Apple TV has largely flopped considering the insane spending, and they are blatantly at risk from non compliance the digital markets act and similar legislation for their platform gate keeping. They didn’t really have to do anything to be really successful. Most of their big investments have not yielded anything. By my back of the envelope calculations, 30-50% of their net income comes from just taxing software distribution on the App Store. The M1s are cool but frankly a niche audience. Apple will continue to do very well (unless regulation actually starts kicking hard). It’s not because of savvy leadership. Their leadership sucks. Google’s is even worse.
  • Der_Einzige 2y ago
    Let's not forget 8gb ram 256gb gimped SSD as the default low end in macbook airs in 2024. It was insulting to do this in 2018 and even worse now. Yes, it means good margins. It also means Apple clearly hates their customers by giving them hilariously under-provisioned hardware for doing anything. If their customers ever grew a spine, they'd make it hurt apples pocket book.
    • jmg_ 2y ago
      For a lot of the ways I see friends and family use Mac products, 256gb is often good enough. I'd argue for people that care about storage space the default acts as a price anchor.