They're "nickle and diming" me for $10/month for 2TB of iCloud storage and I'm quite happy with it. Better pricing than Dropbox or Google, and it's been super reliable for the past 6 months I've been using iCloud Drive, and the couple years before that I've been keeping all my photos synced through iCloud. And I'm able to share that pool iCloud space with my wife. Well worth the money to me.
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Apple's Services Revenue Up 31% Year-Over-Year in 3Q 2018, Company is 'Thrilled' About Upcoming Services Pipeline
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Just WOW, who would have thought that people love, or even accept subscriptions? When Adobe went subscription base everyone was whining, but obviously everyone was swallowing it. Same for Ulysses. Same for 30,000 apps. It seems like people are a lot more milk-able than we thought. Let's squeeze them harder, seems like they like it !
Services is a big and efficient money-maker and I am not surprise it can generate a lot of revenue. I see music CDs at retail stores have shrunk and/or disappear from the shelves and won't be surprise going more and more people will have to purchase through Apple store.
Without you, Tim can't boast how Apple continues to increase its profits.
"AppleCare grew at its highest rate in 18 quarters"
I...wouldn't brag about that. I wonder how much of that growth is because of keyboards in Macbooks and MBPs.
I...wouldn't brag about that. I wonder how much of that growth is because of keyboards in Macbooks and MBPs.
Services are already a significant part of their revenue and ought to become even more important in the future.
I think smartphones will continue to be really important for a few years, then what if they don't find a product that can have the same success as iPhone? Getting a lot of money from services seems a good strategy, even if a particular product is a flop you don't have your quarter ruined because you still have revenues from services.
I think smartphones will continue to be really important for a few years, then what if they don't find a product that can have the same success as iPhone? Getting a lot of money from services seems a good strategy, even if a particular product is a flop you don't have your quarter ruined because you still have revenues from services.
"AppleCare grew at its highest rate in 18 quarters" thats surely is not a good sign or am i missing something?
So rather than pay $1 a month, you'd prefer to be
- bombarded with ads
- have a dozen loopholes in security (so the ads can track you)
- run the risk of the system being shut down any time the accountants decide it costs the company too much
Seems like stupid tradeoff to me...
Turns out hardware pipe was all lead construction.
Had to rip it out entirely.
We may see modern desktop hardware from Apple by 2022.
-That'll be with the latest, greatest 2019 processors installed.
Subscriptions for software != subscriptions for services.
iCloud is an ongoing sync and storage service that needs to be maintained and provides continuing utility to me. It's basically an active extension of my devices' storage. That, I'll pay a fair subscription fee for because I want reliability and stability, and I wouldn't expect it to be free.
Ulysses was a feature-mature writing app that really only needed compatibility releases with new versions of MacOS. It does not cause much of a recurring expense for the developers unless they decide that somehow it's users' job to keep them employed. In the year since going subscription what they've changed doesn't even amount to a full release worth of features. I refuse to pay because I don't want to subsidize this ****** behavior.
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