Posted 13 May 2019 - 08:31 PM

This is a weird day and weird timing for Apple considering the Supreme court stuff. I don't really understand how it all fits together but it seems odd and poetic that Apple may not be able to keep it's "monopoly" in it's devices while starting to use the openness of other devices on the same day. Either way, what's better for consumers and competition is good news, I think.

I don't follow the tech business super close or anything but I think new phone sales have finally started to slow with the extreme prices iPhones have hit. Their other devices are still expensive for the specs they offer, and they've more or less abandoned certain markets portions of their audience.

I would wager this has more of a result of their streaming service though. They're making huge investments into it even if they may be undermining the productions with micro-managing. As big as they are it doesn't make sense to limit a video streaming service to only a percentage of the market, especially when all of their competitors are on tons of other platforms as well as their own. I don't know all that much about the service but it would also make sense to integrate it into the already massively adopted iTunes ecosystem, more so than the clusterfuck Amazon Prime's video service does. If they are integrated it means they have to make their platform more widely available.



Personally, I've never been big on Apple in general, and this at least gets them on the platforms I already use. It seems like they probably get a LOT of new customers and presumably that could make up the difference on hardware sales if they have quality enough shows or whatever.