Apple’s strength has always been its ecosystem, and it continues to grow with every new product release and software update. Replicating it is an uphill battle, and that’s why I believe Apple will continue to prosper for a good long time to come.
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Apple Briefly Exceeded Combined Market Value of Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta This Week
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Apple’s strength has always been its ecosystem, and it continues to grow with every new product release and software update. Replicating it is an uphill battle, and that’s why I believe Apple will continue to prosper for a good long time to come.
In a few months I think I will be exceeding Meta's market value too.
IMO it would make for a more fruitful and educational conversation for all parties if you said what part you disagree with and why.
Food for thought.
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Perhaps its the idea of high value that gives him comfort, which is psychologically valuable in its own way
Given the economy, it's possible their action of a temporary hiring freeze helped their market value.
It appears that focusing on folks that value and have the money to spend on your devices/services (instead of focusing on appeasing folks that will never buy your product) is a workable strategy.
And yet, it’s still very far from its all-time high, and even more so if you use an inflation-adjusted chart.
The only thing worse than Facebook is people using the words cringe and cringeworthy.
You are right, advertising is a tough business. Apple tried it and failed miserably, that’s when they stopped it and adopted the “privacy is a human right”
The only reason Meta and Alphabet have been successful at it is because of their ability to target the hell out of you, so they sell not only the ad but the “relevancy” of it to whoever is paying for it.
And yet, the company seems to think (again) that advertising is a good business to get into.
I hope they get back to focusing on great products. I prefer that business model, even if they charge through the nose for it.
And the corrolary is apparently that companies who have strived to make a quality product apparently can’t resist the lure of turning the customer into the product and taking that ad money anyway, all for the sake of next quarter’s results.
It would be interesting to see Apple buy Microsoft, it will never happen but I would love to see the Windows fanboys go absolutely insane. I am also pretty sure regulators would never allow it.
Only in America. RotW Apple are very much the minority company. PCs still rule the computer market by a huge margin and Android is by far THE most popular mobile OS in the world.
The fact that people are judged in your country based on the brand of the phone they choose rather than something relevant like, I dunno, let's say their general strength of character and how good of a person they are, probably says a lot about how your people view Apple products as status-symbol aspirational devices to show they are part of the 'those who have' crowd and not the 'those who have not' crowd. That said, the US is the same, particularly as you rightly point out at the younger end, but that doesn't mean the US stance is a good role model to follow. It absolutely is not.
Yeah, how "cringeworthy" to stay in touch with friends and family 🤨
Like with any technology, it can be used for good or bad. But it appears many of you only have one brush size: broad.
This is why Apple will dominate the AR/VR market when they come out with their headset. Meta’s market share will drop even further.
For some reason Instagram thinks I’m interested in cookie decorating (not sure why as I’ve never searched for anything like that on any social medial platform) so every third item I see when I scroll the app is video of someone decorating a cookie.
It is interesting that the two most valuable companies (US) are Apple and Microsoft. I have a feeling they will be for a long time to come. So long as no one can come up with a better spreadsheet program than Excel businesses will continue to use the Office suite of products (including Teams). And if they’re O365 then they’re probably using One Drive/Azure too. Apple pretty much has a lock on consumers and Microsoft on business.
I can't see another company coming out with anything that will ever knock Office off its throne, it has been the standard for so long that it would take drastically better software to break into business/enterprise.
Well no I think cringe is a good word to describe the hmmmm…well “cringeworthy” stuff that many people do. Ya some people just literally make your body cringe. So ya it’s a good word