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0 pointslostlogin1y ago0 comments

Do you really believe that Tim Cook doesn’t know the profit margin on a key Apple product?

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How much "profit" does the app store need to pay back to all the api development that powers the apps under the hood?

Similar to the amazon dont make a profit for a decade by dumping it into growth, Apple can dump all their app store "profit" into developing new api's that apps can access, such as ai tools etc.

BriggyDwiggs421y ago

Apple is quite large, so I suspect they don’t exactly use the same strategy as Amazon did in its early days. It also wouldn’t be profit, because that would be an expense they would keep track of.

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basch1y ago

How much "profit" does the app store need to pay back to all the api development that powers the apps under the hood?

Similar to the amazon dont make a profit for a decade by dumping it into growth, Apple can dump all their app store "profit" into developing new api's that apps can access, such as ai tools etc.

BriggyDwiggs421y ago

Apple is quite large, so I suspect they don’t exactly use the same strategy as Amazon did in its early days. It also wouldn’t be profit, because that would be an expense they would keep track of.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse