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View ArticleApple’s Fourth Calendar Quarter 2020
As a rule, I don’t like to make a forecast for Apple’s performance during quarters where there is no guidance. There is a good reason why there is no guidance. The management does not feel confident...
View ArticleApple Pay’s Pay Day
IN a recent release, Apple reported that “more than 90% of stores in the US, 85% of stores in the UK, and 99% of stores in Australia accept Apple Pay.” This is encouraging but a very small view for...
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A Jobs to be Done diet for your Software with IGEN
Software is eating the world. But are users consuming software? Every day, the software industry wastes millions of dollars developing flawed software that’s abandoned by users. Yet the industry’s...
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The Car Bundle Paradox
The EV car market is booming. The graph below shows the global market for plug-in electric cars (plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and battery (BEV)–BEV are about 70% of total). The data is split between 2019 and...
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Significant Contribution Again
Five years ago I used the Cook Doctrine (put forward 12 years ago) to assess the possibility of Apple’s entry in the car market. That doctrine states, among other things: We believe that we need to...
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Forecasting The Past
The last quarter of 2020 was a remarkable quarter for Apple. Every line in the income statement increased by double digits. Net sales up 21%, iPhone sales up 17%, Mac sales up 21%, iPad up 41%,...
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The Most Important iPhone Ever
Just recently, the 2 billionth iPhone was sold. Unlike the 1 billionth, there was no announcement, no celebration. Partly this is because Apple stopped reporting unit shipments, but partly it’s...
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How to listen to Asymco: The Asymco Podcast Channel
I’d like to let everyone know that Asymco is a podcast channel available on Apple Podcasts and Supercast. These podcasts are subscription-only (with a trial period). Join Horace Dediu and Judd Rubin...
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Asymetric: The Crypto Plan for World Domination. An Interview with Balaji...
This is a transcript of an Asymetric podcast. It was lightly edited for legibility. Judd Rubin: Three continents, one conversation, this is Asymetric. We are very excited to have Balaji Srinivasan...
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Movies and the Internet
Almost a year ago, on March 1st, 2021, I tweeted a snapshot of the “FAANG” P/E ratios. They were: Netflix: 88.63Amazon: 73.94Microsoft: 34.65Google: 34.75Apple: 32.89Facebook: 25.53 Today same...
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Predicting Apple Services
The data is finally out. Apple Services and perhaps Apple itself can be quantified and predicted as never before. As we shall see this data changes almost everything we know. It is even more shocking...
View ArticleHow Vision Services Subscriptions Reach $3000/yr
One of the biggest puzzles of my adult life was this question: Why do people pay to attend live events when broadcasts and/or recorded versions are free? Not only do people tend to pay for live...
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The $2 Trillion Economy
The App Store ecosystem crossed $1 Trillion in 2022. To be precise, in a report published in May 2023 by the Analysis Group the ecosystem is estimated to have exceeded $1.1 trillion. This ecosystem is...
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The Value of a Customer
As I remember it, at least 10 years ago, I began to hear anecdotes from developers who built apps for both iOS and Android about their economics. The story is that they tended to have twice as many...
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