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iTunes Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books
Apple Music
App Store
iCloud
Are those not services? They are, they're just not compelling to use. iCloud storage is too expensive. Nobody wants to purchase Movies/TV anymore. The Music UI sucks.
App Store is a huge source of revenue for them.
Word on the street is that they will have a streaming competitor, but I doubt it will be compelling enough to gain significant marketshare, much like Music.
Apple Music is #2 at 19% market share. Spotify is #1 at 36%.
Apple will need to find another major driver of revenue besides the iPhone, though. Now that the smartphone market is fairly saturated and mature, I suspect iPhone sales will continue to be weak (especially if they continue to sell them at $999+).
Apple will need to find another major driver of revenue besides the iPhone, though. Now that the smartphone market is fairly saturated and mature, I suspect iPhone sales will continue to be weak (especially if they continue to sell them at $999+).
I think iPhone is approaching a Pro/not Pro type of split, like the laptops and desktops have done.
The "Pro" will be a flagship phone that is packed with stuff that the Pro/Flagship market will want, at the new, higher prices.
The other line (where the Xr is positioned at the moment, along with the 8 and the 8 Plus) will be the one that most consumers purchase and sales will be split between these lines.
The lower end of the line will NOT get the higher-end stuff until a year or two after the higher end gets it.
But, for the price tradeoff, plenty of consumers won't care.
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I bought two new iPhone SE's last year around this time for $99 each on a prepaid carrier. They replaced two 5S's. There was nothing in the Android lineup costing even twice as much that compares to the quality of the photos, the apps, speed, resale value, durability and longevity of the iPhone.
Now, paying $300, $400, $500+ for a cell phone you might have other options but what that did is it got us using the Apple ecosystem. We went from no apple devices to two iPhones and now two iPads. At one point I even owned a MacBook. Again, no android tablet could compare to the $250 iPads we bought.
I bought two new iPhone SE's last year around this time for $99 each on a prepaid carrier. They replaced two 5S's. There was nothing in the Android lineup costing even twice as much that compares to the quality of the photos, the apps, speed, resale value, durability and longevity of the iPhone.
Now, paying $300, $400, $500+ for a cell phone you might have other options but what that did is it got us using the Apple ecosystem. We went from no apple devices to two iPhones and now two iPads. At one point I even owned a MacBook. Again, no android tablet could compare to the $250 iPads we bought.
Literally every Android phone out there has the iPhone beat when you consider cost. But, please, keep buying Apple. If you ask, I own: a Google Chromebook for which I paid $150, an Essential phone with all the hardware that you can think of for which I paid $250 and a Samsung S2 Tablet for which I paid $200.
For tablets, it's pretty hard to beat the iPad for what it costs.
For phones, there are tons of worthy competitors at Apple's price point or below - my favorite right now is the line of OnePlus phones (and there are plenty of Samsung and other Android phones as well)
(I also use Spotify, I tried Apple Music and didn't like it)
Oh an Android vs IPhone thread, just what the internet needs.
Because it's never been done before.
Disclosure: Team Apple over here, but I think people should buy whatever makes them happy and stop trying to convince the internet that their choice is better for some grand financial or philosophical reason because it's not.
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