Apple services
Bookmarked Existential thoughts about Apple’s reliance on Services revenue by Ben Werdmuller.
“If the product offering is a higher-priced hardware device and premium monthly services on top of it, the investment starts to have diminishing returns. It's a loss of focus on what made Apple great, and why people keep coming back to it.”
I think Apple’s loss of focus on the hardware-software bundle in favour of tightly integrated services is evident in a declining product quality over the past decade. More and more, I find myself moving away from Apple’s services to be ready for when, inevitably, a higher quality option becomes available.