• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      I definitely think Apple is less susceptible to this, but people seem to forget that Apple literally has an ads business.

      Look at the ads in Apple news and in a couple of other places. Apple isn’t immune to injecting ads into the UX of their products.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330127/apple-ad-revenue-worldwide/

      They still have an ad business, and ads are what companies turn to when times get tough. There’s no guarantees that Apple will stay on top for other reasons, and to assume such a thing will never happen is truly foolhardy.

      It’s like believing Valve will be the same after Gabe Newell dies.

      Further, Apple relies deeply on TMSC and since the US is basically in a nosedive of idiocy and protectionist tariffs, there’s a significant chance their supply line for their chips could be deeply impacted, and by extension, their profits from their computing products. Whether from tariffs or China taking over Taiwan, Apple could easily get fucked out of luck fast.

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          No, you implied that they’ll never ever ever never ever in a million years turn to their ad business to supplant lost sales elsewhere and that related things couldn’t happen to impact their sales. Which is a bogus and easily disproven line of thought.

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            bro, you’re projecting and read all that in the other poster’s reply on your own.

            chill and rebuild binutils and clang from source again

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              That’s not how they operate.

              That’s literally the implication that I’m talking about that you say I’m projecting onto this. You don’t know the future, that can change.

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      Hasn’t Apple seriously considered the ad business in the past? I think I saw a video about it years ago. Most likely, they will switch their strategy as soon as it makes financial sense to do so.

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      2 days ago

      Apple has some serious catching up to do with enshitification on the appletv end. I think they are going to really blow our minds when they finally release a new appleTV. It’s quite overdue and I’m guessing they are cooking up a doozy for us!

      My predictions : still don’t fix bit pass audio issue, eliminate ethernet port, crappier remote that still has no back lighting, siri/ appleai is everywhere but only makes things more frustrating, and who knows - maybe ads!!