Bloomberg reports: If you own an iPhone, chances are you’ve used Apple’s App Store to buy and download apps. For years, while iPhones were flying off the shelves, Apple had the power to dictate the rules of how software developers all over the world made those apps– and made money from them.
Now, with the global market for smartphones slowing, the iPhone maker is looking to sweeten its relationship with the 13 million developers it relies on to generate revenue from the App Store.
The inner workings of Apple’s business are notoriously opaque, but this week Bloomberg Technology’s Alex Webb and Brad Stone take you into the world of the developers themselves, to hear what it’s actually been like to work with Apple– and to find out how the world’s most valuable company is trying to change that.
Direct link to audio stream here.
MacDailyNews Take: One more time: Make great products, update them routinely, and make/keep developers happy and the gravy train will have no end!
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Where is that apple hubris now, now that the whole machine is slowing down?
Common synonyms for “hubris” are arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, hauteur, egotism, pomposity, and superciliousness. I do not think that it is accurate to apply the term to Apple, in general, unless you are a hater.
There is a distinct difference between confidence and excessive confidence.
When you assert that the Apple “machine” is “slowing down” do you mean from a financial or technology/innovation standpoint.
From a financial standpoint, it is clearly impossible for Apple to sustain its prior growth rate indefinitely. Otherwise, it would own the entire country in a couple of decades and the rest of the world soon thereafter.
From a technology/innovation standpoint, there are plenty of public naysayers. Of course, there always was, even when Apple was blowing away the completion year after year. The existence of a substantial number of critics with negative outlooks is still only an opinion, not a fact. Check the history of Apple critics since the late 1990s and you will see a sustained history of failed predictions of doom and gloom, even as Apple stacked up the innovations from OS X and the iPod to the iPhone, iPad, MacBook lineup, etc.
There are a number of areas in which Apple can improve its performance – pro Macs, updated Macs, better graphics cards, more upgradeable products, regular updates to key software titles, etc. Those have been discussed on this forum many times – we are Apple’s worst critics and most valid critics because we use and understand their products and services on a daily basis. Many of us have long histories with Apple, even back to the pre-Mac days, which is probably longer than your punk ass has been alive. So I would say that Apple is doing fine and will continue to do fine for the foreseeable future. But there is always room for improvement.
Notice the headline says “Re-Kindle” lol.
Could have also used “re-fires” or “opens new Windows” or “opens up a new Galaxy”
“arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, hauteur, egotism, pomposity, and superciliousness”
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Steve would be rolling in his grave.