As of the second quarter of 2024, Apple’s gross margin amounted to around 42.27 percent. Gross margin is a financial metric that takes the difference between a company’s revenue and its cost of goods sold and then expresses this number as a percentage of total revenue. More simply expressed: in the second quarter of 2024 Apple sold its products with an overall markup of 42.27 percent over their total cost.
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Some Apple Intelligence Features Likely to Require Paid Subscription
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Asking Siri may require cloud use, but Home Kit sends the commands over your local network.
They will be required to use a Chinese AI partner for any chatbot that they use in China. China already has rules that require Apple to share more with it than other governments, do.
The non-profit phase of Apple was ended by Steve Jobs.
The Think different campaign come about because Jobs was desperate. It was wholly created by an ad agency and initially Steve Jobs hated the script for the commercial.
But come on, it's 27 years ago and Apple stopped using any of it at least 20 years ago.
In what way do they have to rely in ChatGPT?
Apple is providing dozens of AI driven features in their apps and using AI to enhance photos and Siri and automation in ways that are actually useful for their customers. That is all using Apple’s AI.
They are only providing a link to ChatGPT to answer web questions, similar to how web search works.
It’s not ironic. Its logical. China is a huge but retroactive market for them. So of course they need to find a partner accepted by china.
The irony would be refusing Meta In the us while working with a Chinese partner.
It's how society should work.
Products and services offered by private companies should cost money reflecting their values to people. It's almost essential for an effective, capitalistic society.
He completed his sentence, but didn’t imply that he needed a question asked back to him.
Why did this trigger you?
They already made it much harder for me to upgrade because they pulled financing options for people who don't have one of the major carriers-- Ive been looking to update since last year and womp womp, it's a no go. They might as well just put out a sub par phone service to go along with all this subscription garbage
“I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either,”
Nah, Im already looking at the OnePlus phone to replace my craptastic iPhone 12. I don't 'accept' ai garbage lol.
You might want to read up a little on Apple Intelligence.
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence helps you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly. All while setting a brand-new standard for privacy in AI.
www.apple.com
All of that is done using Apple’s AI models. No rebranding of anyone else’s AI.
The only exception is the arms-length ability to query ChapGTP for “world knowledge” type questions. Even that is done is a way that protects your privacy and prevents OpenAI from using your data.
Correct. They have to either charge for it as a subscription, or raise the price of the hardware $X00 to pay for the development and server/electricity costs. For those of us that upgrade more often, it’s actually better for us that they charge as a subscription so we’re not paying every time we get a new device
Id love to see them fix the overheating problem I get constantly while charging my phone with the apple-supplied charger. It's pretty ridiculous.
Check the news….
“OnePlus has announced that it will begin rolling out a number of AI features to its smartphones under the umbrella of OnePlus AI. While we don't know a lot about how the full set of features will look, the company is letting us know that all AI functionality is built and based on "genuine user needs."
You are talking about Gross Margin of 42% without also talking about the Net Margin of 26%. Gross is just a subtotal.
It’s weird how many people here, on a tech forum, don’t understand the very topic they’re ******** on Apple for.You might want to read up a little on Apple Intelligence.
Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence helps you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly. All while setting a brand-new standard for privacy in AI.www.apple.com
All of that is done using Apple’s AI models. No rebranding of anyone else’s AI.
The only exception is the arms-length ability to query ChapGTP for “world knowledge” type questions. Even that is done is a way that protects your privacy and prevents OpenAI from using your data.
Like dozens of comments about Apple relying on other AI companies…when that is literally not how the ChatGPT integration works at all.
I would bet that the AI features Apple has introduced on device and with PCC will cover 90%+ of all the use cases a normal person would need, and that’s precisely because Apple’s approach to AI is that *your* context is the starting point. Every other AI company seems hellbent on scraping together information, but none of it has anything to do with your day to day life.
One of these approaches is going to win the day (I know which I think it is), but neither approach should be viewed as a *business model* unto themselves. That’s why Apple is viewing it as a feature set of their ecosystem. I sincerely doubt we’re going to see a subscription service that remotely resembles anything like ChatGPT, Gemini, etc…
Businesses making profits are GOOD for the world.
Companies loosing money tends to stop creating and maintaining (great) products and services.
You may want to take it in to have someone look at that. There is no reason you should be seeing actual overheating while charging, particularly with the cable.
That’s not what they’re doing at all. They were explicit at WWDC. Everything they showed was free if your device is supported…because they are a hardware company.