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Apple's Eddy Cue Restructuring Services Team to Focus More on Streaming and Advertising
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Advertising, like Facebook and Google advertising?
I guess CSAM was just for "child protection" nothing else
I guess CSAM was just for "child protection" nothing else
Clearly
Except it all starts with great products that provide value to customers. The greater the value/product, the higher price you can command. Profits follow.
They don't have to sell, they can force buy it by buying the stocks in the market. Slowly Apple (can) gulb Disney. Current Disney stock price is $107 meaning people are willing to sell at that price, the total market value is about $200B.
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Its mind shattering to know how big and how much Disney owns from parks, hotels, media channels, 100 year media library, to cruise ships world wide and all that amounts to $200B meanwhile Apple is like just selling iPhones and is worth 12X what Disney is worth.
Yes I am oversimplifying (not just iPhones) but you get the idea.
I literally forgot Eddy Cue was still on staff. I’ve never been a fan of his: literally the only Apple exec I ever felt that way about. iTunes and Apple Music have always been a mess; to the point where I prefer Spotify (I subscribe to both; music is my life). I hope the “powers that be” will expect better results in areas Cue is responsible for, for a change.
Not really, thats what peopled thought capitalism will work. In reality this is what happens:-
- Business makes profit
- business buys and merges with competition
- Business is too big and too dominant to compete against
- No one dares to compete against the dominant business
- Business has monopoly or near monopoly on the market
- Business releases whatever they want and people has to pay because there is no other option.
See Microsoft Office, hardly any competes against that. Windows has like 85% of the market share. Like 70% of social media is facebook. I heard there are only 7 meat providers for the whole USA, whole 300 million people buy from 7 businesses. Same goes for telecom and many other businesses. See how Amazon dominates online sales.
Meanwhile, the real Apple services that is Apple's backbone like iCloud is becoming a stepchild. Seriously, why the focus on streaming? We already see how Netflix is actually doing. Not good.
Why can't Apple bring a Microsoft 365 competitor for small businesses. Put more effort into iWork. Make iCloud and syncing more reliable. There are so many other opportunities and existing services that can be improved.
Chasing streaming will only bleed money. Look at Netflix. Many streaming services are actually burning money, unless they have solid IP that they own to begin with (eg Disney). With each big studios are siloing and putting walls for their own content, non-studios like Netflix and Apple will only bleed money to chase original content.
I'd rather see Apple introduce a serious competitor to Google Workspace/Microsoft 365.
Why can't Apple bring a Microsoft 365 competitor for small businesses. Put more effort into iWork. Make iCloud and syncing more reliable. There are so many other opportunities and existing services that can be improved.
Chasing streaming will only bleed money. Look at Netflix. Many streaming services are actually burning money, unless they have solid IP that they own to begin with (eg Disney). With each big studios are siloing and putting walls for their own content, non-studios like Netflix and Apple will only bleed money to chase original content.
I'd rather see Apple introduce a serious competitor to Google Workspace/Microsoft 365.
Hostile takeover of a company like Disney would seem highly unlikely but I guess not impossible. I'm guessing there are also some large shareholders that wouldn't sell at a current market value either. Especially if they are dividend paying shares.
That’s the value of the free competitive market. If a company wants to maximize their profit they have to compete for their customers by giving a better value than their competitors.
I'm still annoyed about the fact the paid News+ subscription is littered with ads - producing a very un-Apple-like experience. If they think rolling out this atrocity across other services is the way to go, that would be awful.
Really curious to see where this advertising push goes. I assume they're going to gouge devs more for search prominence, but the push and pull between privacy and advertising is going to be especially hard for them to nail without annoying people.
Ad + internet means data mining in those days and ages.
Data mining is pretty much against today’s Apple’s culture and values.
Leadership will have to be clear on that.
On the consumer side, ads are always a lousy experience.
Data mining is pretty much against today’s Apple’s culture and values.
Leadership will have to be clear on that.
On the consumer side, ads are always a lousy experience.
7. Business gets fat and lazy and only seeks revenue growth.
8. Business gets caught blindsided (blinded by focus on revenue and not product/value to customer) by an upstart or another company that pivots and enters the space.
9. Business gets slaughtered like the stuffed pig it is.
Kodak, Blockbuster, Kmart, Sears, Tower Records, Hostess, AOL, Nokia, Blackberry, MySpace, Radio Shack, Motorola, Palm, GM, Worldcom, Lehman Bros, TiVo, Nortel
Do I really need to go on?
Edit: BTW, #3 on your list should state - Business partners with corrupt regulators to implement barriers to entry that seek to 'protect the consumer'. Then #4 is no one can compete against due to regulatory barriers.
I read people salivating over all the useful information it will bring (never get lost! remember that person’s name! find the thing you need in the grocery store!) and all I can picture is the ads. There will be so many ads, and they will be everywhere.
I am OK with advertising. 100% against advertising tracking. Comes down to the pure definition and reach of the term Advertising.
That was my first kindle paper white buying experience, though at a lower price point.
Not really surprised by this to be honest, I mean streaming is where it’s at. In this industry, you have to continue to revamp and innovate to stay competitive, but also add/delete new features for ‘selling points’. There’s no room for stagnancy when you have so many major players in this game now.
They’re a sinking ship. Star Wars franchise destroyed. Marvel comics destroyed. Marvel Entertainment… on its way to being destroyed. Disney Parks… losing special status in FL and facing backlash from loyal customers cos of outrageous prices. ESPN has been dragging them down for years. They’re the worst performing Dow stock for a reason. We might see bumps here and there but the long-term trajectory is clearly down.
Apple can barely innovate as it is under Cook, no matter how much they spend on R&D. They don’t need the distraction of trying to merge with an entertainment monstrosity that’s crumbling under its own weight.
I already smelled this trend from miles away. The only question is how far apple will go before completely shattering their “privacy first” propaganda.
Unlike hardware sale, which will plateau without huge user base turnover from other platforms, service is like an infinite gold mine that with care, can last forever. I doubt apple will provide decent service tho.
Unlike hardware sale, which will plateau without huge user base turnover from other platforms, service is like an infinite gold mine that with care, can last forever. I doubt apple will provide decent service tho.
Sod Off with the advertising.
Apple's senior vice president of services Eddy Cue is working to restructure services management with the aim of focusing more on streaming and advertising, according to a new report from Business Insider.
Cue sees streaming and advertising as areas where there is opportunity for revenue growth, and he has already begun updating the responsibilities of key services executives. Peter Stern, Apple's vice president of services, is no longer handling advertising, giving him more time to focus on video, news, books, iCloud, Fitness+, and Apple One.
Todd Teresi, an advertising vice president at Apple, will instead be taking on more responsibility and has been reporting directly to Cue since the beginning of the year. One of the sources who spoke to Business Insider said that Apple's ad business is now "big enough to live on its own."
Apple recently acquired the rights to Friday Night Baseball after establishing a deal with Major League Baseball, and part of its effort to expand streaming services will include additional sports deals. Rumors indicate that Apple is working to secure the rights to NFL's Sunday Ticket package, and Business Insider says that Apple also wants to get the rights to air NBA games.
Sports content would draw in new viewership for Apple TV+, which Apple has been working to build up since its 2019 launch. Apple still has a limited amount of original content compared to other streaming services, and it is unable to draw the same subscriber numbers as Hulu, Netflix, and Disney+.
Services revenue has been growing steadily over the course of the last several years, and the services category now encompasses Apple TV+, iCloud, Apple Fitness+, Apple News+, Apple Music, the App Store, Apple Care+, Apple Arcade, Apple Pay, and more.
In the second quarter of 2022, services brought in $19.8 billion, from $17 billion in the year-ago quarter.
Along with focusing on streaming and advertising, Apple also has plans to introduce new services. There are rumors of a hardware subscription service, and Apple Pay is expanding to include a buy now, pay later feature. Over the weekend, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple has even explored an Instacart-like service that would integrate with nutrition data in the Health app.
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I pay for services to avoid adverts.
Start throwing adverts at me, I will start dumping services.
Sorry but Siri being bad and getting a foot in the grave has to do with that Google exec at the helm for 4yrs now.
Eddie’s track record has been very good despite people hate how he looks:
MobileMe = complete failure plus its remake.
Apple online website = always been best in class for uptime, updates, robustness.
iCloud (apples end attempt) = phenomonal despite hiccups here and there, nobody comes close to its robustness and scalability from 100 million users to over a billion, 200 million (just iPhones, think about iPads, macs etc)!
iTunes (all iterations) to Apple Music = incredible robustness, scalability, great offerings until Spotify, it’s been great for over 15 years now. This is NOT the UI zone Mac, iPads, or iPhones, this is the service and back end he’s been in charge of and the team! People are not seeing this, and misplacing hate. Again best quality music and pays THE best to artists!!
AppleTV. VERY early days has some good offerings and many are NOT typical Hollywood offerings like Netflix or Amazon or what Disney has. Take away Star Wars, Marvel & DC, many would not even know Disney has over 35 TV shows. And just like Star Wars having being widely over extended since movie IV (and the following movies and remakes by Lucas with crap 10th add-ons or fillers), there have been very few gems (clone wars animated twice over btw both are good), Rogue One, and upcoming Kenobi it’s getting old. Even Marvel is squeezing the grape a little too much lately (Wanda vision essh).
All in All Eddie has consistently had a team that’s delivered. of all the streaming services ONLY Apple started completely from scratch. I’d say they’ve done quite well considering that. Many of us got monthly credits when services changed, a good thing and rare from Apple.
Eddie has delivered more than many other executives over the course of their career. Give the many his due credit.
Disney+ has already begun and will continue with ads with an upcoming secondary tier which is ridiculous.
The more mature streaming service become, the more like traditional cable TV it is!
I’d say Torrent old days has matured into a much better streaming service more than anything else.