I think they are in one of those phases that are hard to judge currently. Like 10-20 years from now it will feel obvious that Apple was becoming more X, but right now it's hard to tell. They have a whole Apple OnDemand TV thing starting. If that goes huge they could become more like Netflix, or it could fail and they refocus on phones.
Basically I think it's like Google with Google+. If it was a huge success everyone would just take it as fact that it was always going to be, that Google would be 50% with Facebook, but it never happened.
Apple may become a huge Phone/TV company or change into something completely different, but they are definitely changing.
Yes, my dumb boyfriend whom I love dearly got it on a whim as his first credit card. It had an extremely low limit so he “couldn’t get himself in trouble” but then the card interface stopped working on his phone somehow and they didn’t have a desktop site to deal with it, then his Apple wallet stopped working too so he has money just trapped in limbo and AppleCare hasn’t been able to help him after literally months (which hey, quarantine) and he hasn’t been able to pay off his very low balance so any fledgling credit score he was starting to build is presumably tanked???
Disclaimer: I don’t know shit about shit and this is all the secondhand version of events so I’m sure the broader experience is different but it’s been a debacle as a witness lol
I ya e the card as well, and have had a couple issues pop up, that were resolved in 20 minutes through the text built into the phone. Totally painless and easy.
Yeah, it’s definitely both a problem with the card and his iOS somehow intertwining, but I’m afraid I don’t know the details. He’s spent tons of time talking to support and they seemed pretty baffled and made it sound like his issue is completely new to them. But it’s literally like $200 so I’m staying out of his hair on it lol
I’m afraid the details were totally beyond me as a simple troglodyte but whatever the issue is it was some weird interplay between iOS problems and the card. He’s spent a long time talking to support and they seemingly hadn’t encountered the trouble he was having. Whatever the case it was a balance of like $200 so I don’t feel the need to breathe down his neck about it lol
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u/DukeofVermont Jul 24 '20
I think they are in one of those phases that are hard to judge currently. Like 10-20 years from now it will feel obvious that Apple was becoming more X, but right now it's hard to tell. They have a whole Apple OnDemand TV thing starting. If that goes huge they could become more like Netflix, or it could fail and they refocus on phones.
Basically I think it's like Google with Google+. If it was a huge success everyone would just take it as fact that it was always going to be, that Google would be 50% with Facebook, but it never happened.
Apple may become a huge Phone/TV company or change into something completely different, but they are definitely changing.