Services business is a slippery slope, everyone succumbs to the YoY revenue growth push and they all gravitate towards the same dirty tactics. They even tried turning the hardware into a subscription model but I guess it didn’t gain much traction.

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mihaaly 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ah! The illusion of predictability (for the organisation, of course, because that's what only counts nowadays). Then users get tired/upset of the crap and walk away.

Like long lasting customers of my employer.

Still, the new investor pushes the method further, into infinity, price strategy 'modernization' and whatnot, so numbers and charts in categories of buzzwords look as they want in the sheets. For a while.

Functionality? Secondary, tertiary, or even lower priority annoyance.

I wonder why they invest in troublesome R&D and not in selling sugary water or something from that beatifully simple alley instead, that would be better playfield for them.

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Noaidi a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Apple annual gross profit for 2025 was $195.201B, a 8.04% increase from 2024. Apple annual gross profit for 2024 was $180.683B, a 6.82% increase from 2023. Apple annual gross profit for 2023 was $169.148B, a 0.96% decline from 2022.

Seems like this is just plain old greed...

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Y-bar a day ago | parent [-]

It seems a significant amount of that revenue is now from services (App Store, in-app purchases, subscriptions,…).

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Noaidi 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes! And these are very easy to boycott! I don’t understand why this didn’t happen after Tim Cook shove that gold bar right up Trump’s ass.

	▲	pmdr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This leads me to believe that most boycotts gain traction only if another corporation stands to benefit from that. Nowadays pretty much all of the big players are in bed with the current administration, so there's little surprise that boycotts aren't noticeable.