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Services are super high margin (twice that of hardware), growing quickly year over year, and now make up a big fraction of Apple's overall revenue. Sadly, I thi
by macNchz 11mo ago
Services are super high margin (twice that of hardware), growing quickly year over year, and now make up a big fraction of Apple's overall revenue. Sadly, I think, the days of Apple having the incentives and motivations associated with being primarily a hardware company are well past us—we're at the stage where hardware and OS product decisions reflect a need to drive services revenue, rather than simply making something great that people want to buy.
- madeofpalk 11mo agoApp Store revenue is essentially infinite margin. Selling gambling games to children is essentially free money for them.
- _aavaa_ 11mo ago*skimming off the top from gambling games for children. They don’t even have to put in the effort of making it.
- fukka42 11mo agoThey're the ones selling the gambling games. They didn't create them, but they do sell them.
- jonbiggums22 11mo agoThey also ban many types of apps so they can't even claim it's a free market that they don't want to/can't control.
- betaby 11mo ago> gambling games to children Essentially the same as giving alcohol to kids at home. That's the parents fault first and foremost.
- oarsinsync 11mo ago> Essentially the same as giving alcohol to kids at home. Is it? A bottle of vodka, rum, wine, beer, is very obviously what it is. A lot of these gambling games are disguised as games, that just happen to have elements that are heavily disguised to not be obviously and immediately shown to be gambling. You and I both know what loot boxes are, but does everyone? There's nothing obviously gambling about a loot box, until you dig into it.
- betaby 11mo agoI mean, kids can't buy smartphones and data plans and have a credit cards for that gamblings sites. Their parents must have given they them. Make no mistake - gambling is bad for the society. That doesn't mean parents can be absent. And especially in that case, parents are complicit.
- x______________ 11mo ago>I mean, kids can't buy smartphones and data plans and have a credit cards for that gamblings sites. Have you never searched for a credit card detail generator? Browsed the dark web for stolen card details? Used e-sims? A common misconception that people have is that age is not a limiting barrier to a great mind and doesn't require enabling by others to achieve the goals they set out.
- kalleboo 11mo agoApple doesn't agree, one reason they ban pornography in the App Store is to protect children so clearly they see that as their role.
- betaby 11mo agoBut not gambling apparently. The original article is about the third-party stores, which is essentially removes the Apples's veto.
- otabdeveloper4 11mo ago