The yr is winding up and the vacations are upon us. As that is an additional busy time for this be-horned beast (ever strive wrapping packages with hooves?), let’s take a fast take a look at a number of tales that caught the Macalope’s eye this week.
First, our good associates at Samsung (disclaimer: not associates, not good) positive do discuss Apple loads, don’t they? You get some actual “I really feel dangerous for you.”/“I don’t take into consideration you in any respect.” power out of this relationship. As soon as once more they’re operating an advert that mentions Apple, and once more for not promoting a foldable cellphone. Which is certainly a factor that customers are crying out for as a result of, uh, it folds?
The Macalope doesn’t actually know what the benefit is meant to be. Samsung is operating this advert within the U.S. as a result of its gross sales are flagging so speaking smack is all they’ve left. Certainly, Apple’s share within the U.S. continues to rise yr after yr as Android’s continues to fall. Earlier this yr, Apple went over 50 p.c share within the U.S.
However, you say, Macalope, haven’t you lengthy mentioned that market share isn’t as vital as revenue share? Certainly, thanks for bringing that up, imaginary reader who’s been paying consideration for 10 years as a substitute of browsing Instagram whereas consuming Fiddle Faddle and consuming copious quantities of Hello-C. The factor is, Apple took a whopping 78 p.c share of the premium cellphone market.
No less than Samsung is attempting one thing totally different. Xiaomi, voted by its highschool senior class as “most probably to kill the iPhone,” would apparently not know the right way to design telephones in any respect if the iPhone didn’t exist.
There goes that Macalope once more, you say, claiming Apple can do no incorrect. Wow, why so sassy unexpectedly, imaginary reader? Simply attempt to keep in mind who created you. You’re a being of the Macalope’s personal devising and he can undo you simply as simply as he made you.
Hey! The place are you going?! Get again right here!
Man, the Macalope shouldn’t make imaginary readers so quick. Now he’s by no means gonna discover him.
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Anyway, can or not it’s a coincidence that, shortly after assembly with Tim Cook dinner at Apple’s headquarters, Elon Musk took a web page from Apple’s App Retailer guide and banned linking to competing social media platforms? The assembly was ostensibly for the aim of mending the rift growing between the artist previously referred to as the world’s richest man and the artist presently referred to as the world’s richest firm.
Apple, in fact, is famously recognized for not permitting builders to place hyperlinks to various technique of paying for his or her apps within the apps themselves. Was Tim Cook dinner dropping pearls of knowledge? Nah, it’s only a coincidence. Most likely.
At any charge, Twitter has now apparently rolled again the rule, as a result of not everybody can get away with saying it’s their means or the knowledge superhighway.
Lastly, a French courtroom has fined Apple $1 million for “abusive app retailer practices”. Properly! That can present them! For a few minute and a half. As a result of primarily based on Apple’s income for the earlier quarter, that’s how lengthy it takes the corporate to make $1 million—a minute and a half.
It’s virtually as if this positive and the one beforehand levied by the Netherlands have been designed to sound massive to the likes of you or the Macalope however are laughably small for a corporation like Apple.
It’s virtually like that.
