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Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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Private company, they can do whatever they like. Also, I can purchase phones from whomever I like. This is a non-story.
They are a public company, not a private one. That said, profits > *, always.
True. What I meant was, they are not a government entity, so they are free to make a profit.
They are not free to make a profit. They must.*
* "must"
You should read the article because this isn't about phone prices. It's about stuff that you actually can only buy from them.
We're backsliding from a world where you could have just one or two streaming platforms and basically get access to everything to one that's even worse than old cable packages.
Buy Android. Use Linux. You have options.
This is the correct answer 👍. Best comment on this thread.
Except... the article still wasn't about phones, or any device/OS. Just more people who didn't read it.
We're talking about the principle of free computing to help people get out of apple's ecosystem prison of greed.
Cool, cool.
The article is talking about Apple services you can use on Android or Windows or even regular Linux PCs, though. There's no "free computing" alternative to Apple+ , other than the high seas.
Linux. Linux respects user freedom. The user is free to examine the code of the software or os, modify it to their liking and share it on
For example, if Apple was FOSS/Libre and people were unhappy with any Apple app, iOS, macos, ipados, tvos, watchos - they could simply modify the code to make it work the way they want (fork it, is the technical term) and even release the new version under a new name. Or they could keep it for their own personal use.
In Linux you can do exactly that. I could take any Linux OS, make as many changes as I want and use it for myself or name it and make it available for download. I could even sell it.
In fact they is exactly what Steve did with Unix. Unix is like Linux in how it works. And there are free Unix versions available called FreeBSD.
Steve Jobs took that free OS, modified it to make NextOS and sold it on his Next PC's. When Apple acquired Next, they renamed NextOS to AppleOS/OS X/macOS. Later they modified it and called it iOS, then ipadOS, then TVOS, then WatchOS.
And make Billions from this free operating system
Just barge on talking about something entirely irrelevant to the article you didn't read. Don't look back or doubt yourself for even one moment.
I will thanks 👍. The point is to have conversations, what on or off topic
Ahem 🏴☠️
Yeah, I encourage this wholeheartedly.
Yes, but I'd like to make an informed decision. This information is valuable to my choice of who to purchase a phone from
I don't think this means what you think it means