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2016-04-27, 16:25

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Originally Posted by kscherer View Post
That's the media talking.

Apple has more multi-billion-dollar tricks than any other company out there. If the SEC came along and divided all of Apple's tricks up (Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV), each would be a super-sccuessful, highly profitable corporation and still scorned the world over because other tech companies can't figure out how to make any money making [what they think is] the exact same stuff.

Personally, the only lasting mistake I think Apple is making involves making iOS too complicated and MacOS too simple. They're doing it because there is a convergence coming, but it's that convergence that stands the greatest risk of ruining the whole works.
That's the apple apologist talking :-)

Joking.... kind of... not really. The fact of the matter is yes, Apple is a massive company and their other businesses broken out would be big companies on their own.... however, none of them would be anything special on their own. Mac sales are flat and inevitably going to start going down. iPad sales have been shrinking for 2 years now. iPod is dead. Apple Watch has had an early adopter boost of a first year due to the size and success of Apple and the iPhone but its becoming clear that it's a crappy product. Apple TV is nothing special and Apple hasn't been able to do what they want with it. And Apple's services segment relies entirely upon it's success with iPhone.
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