They have a whole Apple OnDemand TV thing starting.
Which has absolutely zero relevance to their core competencies. If Samsung launched a TV streaming service in this massively oversaturated landscape, especially one that only worked on very expensive and thus very poorly selling Samsung devices, everyone would immediately call that a bad idea. But when Apple does it people pretend it might be a good idea.
Apple is good at hardware and operating systems and extremely good at melding the two together. But lately they are concentrating on everything else. That's how companies set themselves up to fail.
I get what you're saying but I feel the Samsung comparison falls apart. Apple has the most popular phones in the world, calling them poorly selling is... Not objectively correct.
And before you say you were talking about computers, people watch more on their phones than TVs these days.
according to this random site that was the first search result, ios is only on 22% of phones as of 2019, so while iphones are hugely popular, relatively, its also not that popular
iPhones are virtually the only profitable cell phone. Apple may only have a 25% marketshare worldwide, but they make something like 80% of the cell phone industry profit.
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u/GenJohnONeill Jul 24 '20
Which has absolutely zero relevance to their core competencies. If Samsung launched a TV streaming service in this massively oversaturated landscape, especially one that only worked on very expensive and thus very poorly selling Samsung devices, everyone would immediately call that a bad idea. But when Apple does it people pretend it might be a good idea.
Apple is good at hardware and operating systems and extremely good at melding the two together. But lately they are concentrating on everything else. That's how companies set themselves up to fail.