Yes, as I said in another thread a few days ago: Apple's strength is in making personal computing endpoint devices for consumers. That's what's in their DNA. They have not done well at anything else.

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qzw 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

While that’s definitely true, I think it’s maybe more fair to say that their actual strength has always been to take a personal computing technology that’s just about “ready-for-prime-time” and make it as accessible and fashionable as possible. Almost all of their failed products have been errors in judging how close a tech is to being ready for mass adoption.

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snowwrestler 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They do great at consumer services as well. Worth noting that no other company in the world has more credit cards on file than Apple.

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bigyabai 3 days ago | parent [-]

That will look just great alongside the other monopoly abuse evidence.

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dickersnoodle 3 days ago | parent [-]

"Monopoly abuse"? Apple Pay was a huge leap forward in preventing credit card info theft, to the point that I only buy gas at stations that use Apple Pay to avoid having my bank account emptied by someone running a pump skimmer.

	▲	Steltek 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Uhh, do you mean contactless payments? That wasn't Apple. Apple wasn't even the first to offer it on phones. Android beat them by 3 years.
	▲	bigyabai 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		...Apple didn't invent the credit card proxy. Their biggest "innovation" was locking it into their walled garden.

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badc0ffee 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's worth mentioning that those personal computing devices have enabled them to make bank on cloud services.

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asdff 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah and part of that specifically came by sacrificing a personal computing endpoint product they used to sell, networked storage, at the sacrificial alter.

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badc0ffee 3 days ago | parent [-]

The funny thing is that Time Machine still works, and works better than any local backup solution for Windows that I'm aware of (let alone what comes with Windows itself).

	▲	platevoltage 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not to mention, they are generous enough to allow it to work with a non-apple NAS setup. I feel like that would be a different story if they were still in the NAS business.