HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 15:40:04 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 79225 Connection: keep-alive X-hacker: If you're reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header. X-Powered-By: WordPress.com VIP Content-Security-Policy: block-all-mixed-content Link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" Link: ; rel=shortlink X-rq: ewr1 102 65 3184 Cache-Control: max-age=300, must-revalidate Age: 717 X-Cache: hit Vary: Accept-Encoding Accept-Ranges: bytes Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; The greedy ways Apple got to $1 trillion – TechCrunch ...
For being the richest company ever with $243 billion in cash, Apple sure cuts corners in the stingiest ways. The hardware giant became the first trillion-dollar company week[3]. Yet it’s tough to reconcile Apple earning $11 billion in profit per quarter with it still screwing us over on cords and keyboards. The “it just works” philosophy has slipped through the cracks of the money-printing machine. It’s not that Apple [4] couldn’t afford to fix the problems, it’s just ensnared in hubris such that it doesn’t see them as important. We still turn to Apple because it makes the best core products. But the edges of the customer experience have frayed like the wires of a Lightning cable. The key to Apple’s fortune is obviously selling high margin iPhones, not these ways it nickels and dimes us. But the company has an opportunity to raise its standards after this milestone, and win back the faith that could push it to a $2 trillion market cap. Apple gives you that tingly feeling