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Apple Music Award Design Features Apple's Custom Silicon Wafer
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The direction???
That direction was cast almost 20 years ago when the music industry was on the ropes and dying. Apple recognized that situation and stepped in with the iPod (Jobs' "1000 songs in your pocket") and a couple years later the iTunes Store where you could purchase music for 10 cents a track. Customers purchased 1 million songs within the Store's first week of operation. Apple revolutionized the industry and the rest is history.
Apple has demonstrated time and time again it can excel developing and supporting multiple product lines simultaneously.
Which is why Apple is moving from selling iPhones to selling to people with iPhones.
People are holding on to their iPhones longer, and that’s perfectly fine, given that they now have over 900 million active iphone users.
You have apps, Google pays Apple $9 billion a year to keep their search engine as default, then there are services (iCloud, Apple Music, news+, arcade, Apple Pay / card, TV+ helping to promote the TV+ app and sell streaming subscriptions). Wearables like the AirPods and Apple Watch, plus accessories like watch bands, adaptors and cases.
Apple will be just fine.
Spies posing as musicians infiltrate the Apple Music Awards to win the award and back engineer Apple's chip fabrication process.
The body of the article mentioned who won Album of the Year, Songwriter of the year, Breakthrough artist of the Year and Song of the Year.
This was announced the other day. She’s also set to perform at the show.
It took no less than six years for Apple to release an upgraded Mac mini. Priorities clearly do matter inside Apple, and contrary to what some think, the company doesn't have a trillion dollars to spend.
lol, I haven't seen this position in a long-ass time.
If Apple hadn't released the iPod, and everything else that stemmed from that, the company would be virtually irrelevant today. They'd probably be making some nice computers for a niche of enthusiasts, but the world would have passed them by.
I used the word upgraded, not refreshed. The 2014 refresh wasn't an upgrade.
These look great. I want one! Shame I have no idea how to make music lol.
Hmmm.... maybe I should dust off that old copy of GarageBand tonight... 😁
Hmmm.... maybe I should dust off that old copy of GarageBand tonight... 😁
Funny.
Why do we never hear you complaining about Google and their revenue sources?
Apple makes about 50% of their revenue off the iPhone, a product that people want. A product a large number of people like to own. For 10 years we’ve heard about the next “iPhone killer” and it never materializes. iPhone revenue will never “dry up” - it will simply stabilize (it’s at that point now) as current users upgrade. People are loyal to their ecosystem and the iPhone has a stable user base of almost 1 billion people. There isn’t going to be some catastrophic event that’s causes the iPhone to suddenly stop selling.
Google, however, makes almost 90% of their revenue off a product that people hate. Ads. Something people actively try to avoid. All it would take is a law that restricts data mining or tracking and their entire revenue source is at risk. Google could literally lose their source of revenue overnight based on some new government regulation. And with all the bad publicity surrounding data mining and tracking recently it’s almost certain that some form of regulation is coming.
Ah yes, a faster processor isn’t an upgrade at all. Who would ever care about that?
Why do people here deflect to Samsung or google when someone questions Apple.
The 2014 had a slower processor than the 2012. Don't you remember? It went from quad-core to dual-core.
Slower processor, RAM went from upgradable to soldered. The integrated GPU was the only definite improvement (edit: connectivity was a little bit better with 802.11ac WiFi and Thunderbolt 2). So the 2014 refresh overall was a lateral move at best, a downgrade at worst, but definitely not an upgrade over the 2012.
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how condescending can you get...
who do you think the 'pro' in your macbook pro refers to?
Apple Music Awards are just the new iTunes Awards, and those existed for many years already.
That's not a deflection. Realtuner made what people call a comparison, differentiating Apple and google highest revenue products and their respective markets.
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If Apple didn’t focus on an friggin MP3 player, they would have dumped resources into the Mac. Which is a computer. As in Apple Computer. And Macs today would then be somewhat on par with Linux machines and Surface.