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Is it though?
by scotty79 10mo ago
Is it though?
- ranger_danger 10mo agoTheir revenue last year was 400 billion dollars... you tell us.
- scotty79 10mo agoThey are still milking the product they launched 20 years ago, doing slight periodic updates to match innovations of others with few years delay. They are about as good at making new products as Google and Facebook.
- ranger_danger 10mo agoI'd say it depends on your definition of "good", since the revenue seems to suggest they're doing something most people agree with.
- bloppe 10mo agoBy that logic, the online scam industry is shipping the best products of all time. By some estimates they make over a trillion a year.
- ranger_danger 10mo agoIMO false equivalence... scams are designed purely to steal money from people, while Apple products carry intrinsic value and benefit to most people.
- bloppe 10mo agoI realize it's a strained equivalence, but Apple makes a lot of money violating EU anticompetitive laws. Their stranglehold over app distribution is not entirely dissimilar to ransome.
- GeorgeOldfield 10mo agohave you seen the M chips? to me that revolutionized computing. supercomputer-level latency for in-ram operations on a $2k laptop
- scotty79 10mo agoSounds awesome. But they achieved it by basically harwiring specific RAM to specific CPU. It's awesome that they made a product, but there's no extensibility and since it's internal apple innovation it's basically a technological dead end. Nobody can build anything upon this and there's nothing to build. Even a cool $2k laptop you can run small LLM on is basically a closed off expensive toy. Much like iPhone. Technology will grow in parallel and surpass it fairly quickly like the Android phones did. Only brand loyalty in US holds this thing still propped up long term.