• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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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                To quote you:

                I said they would not inject ads like this

                And I’m saying you don’t know that they won’t do that in the future. But keep clarifying yourself more, I’m sure it will help clear it up.

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                    I’m not the one defending a corporation that literally hid behind their CEOs coming out story to avoid bad press about their tax dodging… Tax dodging which helped them get their obscene warchest today. Apple isn’t your friend and doesn’t care that you exist, dude.

                    Cry more and go suck some more corporate dick while you’re at it.