@hanera you better tell your friends to fix their headphones. My Beats Pro can’t seem to get both sides working at the same time. When I forget them and repair, then the opposite side works. Both sides never work at the same time anymore.
Also, it’s 2024. Why can’t I keep playing music in my headphones when I record a video?
Double price 
Apple Vision Pro may have sold out, but one analyst has a ‘major concern’
Apple Inc. has sold some 160,000 to 180,000 Vision Pro headsets since the device became available for preorder Friday…
we need most of these guys to be developers and social influencers. Latter group to come out with required improvements and features, second group to realize them with great apps.
While Kuo thinks Apple shouldn’t have a hard time shipping 500,000 Vision Pro devices this year, he also sought to put his initial order estimate in context: “Apple has a massive user base of over 1.2 billion active users. As long as about 0.007% of users are willing to buy after pre-ordering, Vision Pro can sell out after opening for pre-order.”
Of course. Of course. 
Have you bought Vision Pro?
I was researching headphones the other day. Looks like the best is the Sony WH-1000XM5. Also $200 cheaper than the AirPods Max.
The Beats Pro are awesome for working out. They are light and won’t fall out.
Apple TV is the ultimate disappointment. The whole point of the Apple ecosystem if they’ll keep track of all my passwords for apps. Apple TV is completely independent. It doesn’t know any of my login info despite logging into my Apple account. I have to log into Hulu and every app separately. That’s an epic fail. Steve Jobs would have fired people over that type of error.
In an era when Apple has bundled its hardware and software*** into easy-to-use products for billions of customers, ***it will be difficult for the government to beat the company in court, Khodjamirian argues.
Thought consumers love everything app such as WeChat and US companies e.g. META and X try to copy WeChat. With Justice Department and EU’s action, are they representing consumers or just want to have some free monies?
Comment is intentionally provoking… a trick believed by many people that would encourage more comments.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/amitisinvesting/status/1749893370745368687
Many comments to the tweet. IMHO, mostly uninformed comments from Xers who doesn’t know AAPL the company… I believe most are below 45 yrs old. For example, …
TL;DR rumor
Apple has given up the dream of making steering-wheel-ess AVs and we’re liable business model because people are not ready and regulations are not here. Rather than canceling the project, Apple decides to build a level 2 EV.
Apple’s overall smartphone shipments fell 2.2% year-on-year in 2023, while the overall market fell 5%, IDC said.
“Apple’s climb to the top spot in 2023, especially in light of renewed competition from Huawei and the soft spending sentiment, marks a tremendous success for Apple,” Arthur Guo, senior research analyst at IDC China, said in a press release.
I thought Apple wasn’t able to sell iPhones in China anymore due to government banning employees? Weird.
SPOT doesn’t want to pay 15% to AAPL but shamelessly takes 50% cut from your advertiser revenue.
Similar behavior for META.
Daniel made “bad behaviors” tweet.
Joseph responded. - I cut n paste his response 4h ago.
Then @mcp posted Daniel’s bad behaviors’ tweet.
Now I have to post why Joseph posted that response.
Daniel is like some bloggers here… hold prejudices.
The point Joseph is making is corporation such as SPOT and META are hypocrites. As investors, we shouldn’t mindlessly believe their narratives. They claim other people are bad but they are worse.
Look like Apple is one of those rare company who has an average Joe in mind. Truly helping them to have a better quality of life. Social media influencers and tech journalists are looking for hypes while Apple continues to help average Joe… these tech influencers think Apple is not following fashion innovative and surprise that average Joe are buying Apple products unabated.
Joseph clearly doesn’t understand why antitrust laws exist.
Back in the 90s, should we have allowed Microsoft to bundle web browser into their OS? After all, it’s their OS and they invested hugely in it.
If Microsoft had won the case, I am pretty sure today’s Apple would not even exist.
Apple doesn’t just take 30% of your revenue. It also disallows your app from directing users to a web page to process payments without also giving it a cut. Imagine Microsoft’s Internet Explorer behaved that way. Every purchase you made on IE you have to pay Microsoft 30%. Would you still think it’s a good idea?
Have to say again…
Because…
Is it the same thing as Apple taking 30% of revenue just because your app is its App Store? And there aren’t any other app store for Apple devices.
Question 1:
How much money and effort does Apple spend to maintain its app store?
vs
How much money and effort does Spotify spend to operate its entire business? Multiple that number with every company that has an app.
Question 2:
What choice does Apple users have to get their app from? Is there any other app store for iPhones?
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How many music streaming services does Apple users have besides Spotify?
