←back to thread

Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone

(www.bloomberg.com)
115 points miles | 1 comments | 14 Aug 22 18:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
testmasterflex ◴[14 Aug 22 20:38 UTC] No.32462731[source]▶
Perhaps the decline of Apple finally starts. And a startup will take their place eventually.
replies(4): >>32462874 #>>32462940 #>>32462946 #>>32463136 #
c7DJTLrn ◴[14 Aug 22 21:07 UTC] No.32462940[source]▶
Sadly it's not the 80s anymore. A startup building their own hardware without VCs getting involved is basically impossible. Of course, I'm not talking about taking something like a Raspberry Pi off the shelf and making something with that. Wozniak was building something from scratch that could be sold as an actual product - no chance of that now.
replies(3): >>32462981 #>>32462986 #>>32462988 #
1. lnsru ◴[14 Aug 22 21:15 UTC] No.32462988[source]▶
VCs aren’t that interested in hardware. Nobody bets on a crippled horse. The same with hardware startup. Why invest in something with tons of embedded software, connectivity software and all the problems with moving physical objects when one could invest just in software venture that has at least 10x higher chance to succeed?