The year is coming to an end, and we are waiting for the holidays. Since it’s a very busy time for this horned beast (ever tried wrapping packages with your hooves?), let’s take a quick look at a few of the stories that have caught Makalop’s attention this week.
First, our good friends at Samsung (disclaimer: not friends, not good) really talk about Apple a lot, don’t they? You get real “I’m sorry” / “I don’t think about you at all.” energy from these relationships. They run an ad again that mentions Apple and again that the foldable phone is not for sale. What are users definitely dreaming about because it is winding down?
Macalop doesn’t really know what the advantage should be. Samsung is running this ad in the US because its sales are dropping so all they have left is chatter. Indeed, Apple’s US share continues to rise year on year, while Android’s share continues to fall. Earlier this year, Apple moved to a 50 percent share in the US.
But, you say, Macalop, didn’t you say a long time ago that market share is not as important as profit share? Indeed, thanks for mentioning this imaginary reader who has been following the news closely for 10 years instead of browsing Instagram while eating Fiddle Faddle and drinking copious amounts of Hi-C. The fact is that Apple has taken a whopping 78 percent of the premium phone market.
At least Samsung is trying to do something different. Voted by high school students to be “most likely to kill the iPhone,” Xiaomi would apparently not know how to design phones at all if the iPhone didn’t exist.
That Macalope again, you say, arguing that Apple can’t be wrong. Wow, why all of a sudden such a sassy, imaginary reader? Just try to remember who created you. You are a creature of Makalop’s own invention, and he can destroy you as easily as he created you.
Hello! Where are you going?! Come back here!
Dude, Macalop shouldn’t be so quick to create imaginary readers. Now he will never find it.
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In any case, could it be a coincidence that shortly after meeting Tim Cook at Apple headquarters, Elon Musk took a page from an Apple App Store book and banned links to competing social media platforms? The meeting was ostensibly to mend the rift between the artist formerly known as the world’s richest man and the artist currently known as the world’s richest company.
Apple is, of course, notorious for not allowing developers to post links to alternative payment methods for their apps within the apps themselves. Tim Cook scattered pearls of wisdom? No, it’s just a coincidence. Probably.
Anyway, now Twitter has apparently dropped that rule because not everyone can get away with saying it’s their way or the information superhighway.
Finally, a French court fined Apple $1 million for “app store misconduct.” OK! It will show them! For about a minute and a half. Because, based on Apple’s revenue for the previous quarter, that’s how long it takes the company to make $1 million – a minute and a half.
It’s almost as if this fine, and the one previously levied by the Netherlands, were designed to seem big for the likes of you or Macalope, but ridiculously small for a company like Apple.
This almost like this.