• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330127/apple-ad-revenue-worldwide/

    They still have an ad business, and ads are what companies turn to when times get tough. There’s no guarantees that Apple will stay on top for other reasons, and to assume such a thing will never happen is truly foolhardy.

    It’s like believing Valve will be the same after Gabe Newell dies.

    Further, Apple relies deeply on TMSC and since the US is basically in a nosedive of idiocy and protectionist tariffs, there’s a significant chance their supply line for their chips could be deeply impacted, and by extension, their profits from their computing products. Whether from tariffs or China taking over Taiwan, Apple could easily get fucked out of luck fast.

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      21 hours ago

      Didn’t say Apple doesn’t have ads

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        No, you implied that they’ll never ever ever never ever in a million years turn to their ad business to supplant lost sales elsewhere and that related things couldn’t happen to impact their sales. Which is a bogus and easily disproven line of thought.

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          21 hours ago

          bro, you’re projecting and read all that in the other poster’s reply on your own.

          chill and rebuild binutils and clang from source again

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          I did nothing of the sort. You’re projecting all sorts of stuff onto what I said. I said they would not inject ads like this. In this insanely intrusive manner or as a flagrant rug pull. That’s not how they operate.

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            21 hours ago

            That’s not how they operate.

            That’s literally the implication that I’m talking about that you say I’m projecting onto this. You don’t know the future, that can change.

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              20 hours ago

              Dude I’ve clarified exactly what I meant. At some point you need to stop telling me what I said and listen to me when I tell you what I said.

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                20 hours ago

                To quote you:

                I said they would not inject ads like this

                And I’m saying you don’t know that they won’t do that in the future. But keep clarifying yourself more, I’m sure it will help clear it up.

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                  Oh ffs no one knows anything about the future so let’s go pick apart literally any prediction you’ve ever made with any certainty if we’re going to be pedantic shits about it.

                  Let’s get prescriptive then since you’re such an ass:

                  It is reasonable to assume based on the way Apple implements ads at this stage that Apple will not implement ads the way we are seeing Roku roll them out in the post we are commenting on for the foreseeable future barring a major departure from how Apple does business, so for now one is probably safe to use Apple TV without fear of seeing this very obtrusive and obnoxious implementation of ads replicated on their Apple TV system.

                  Are you satisfied? Can we move on? Jfc you’re obnoxious. I don’t know why you’re pretending you don’t understand what I am saying. Go touch grass. Interact with people. Clearly you’ve lost the ability to infer or interpret basic sentences. Some people hate Apple so much it rots their brain i swear.

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                    19 hours ago

                    I’m not the one defending a corporation that literally hid behind their CEOs coming out story to avoid bad press about their tax dodging… Tax dodging which helped them get their obscene warchest today. Apple isn’t your friend and doesn’t care that you exist, dude.

                    Cry more and go suck some more corporate dick while you’re at it.