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176 points mfiguiere | 3 comments | 30 Oct 25 20:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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haunter ◴[30 Oct 25 21:04 UTC] No.45765331[source]▶
Kind of telling that

1, the iPhone outsells every other category by 5-7x ratio, and the Mac (which includes everything from Macbooks to Mac Minis to iMacs) barely sells more than the iPad.

2, Services (iCloud, apps, music, TV shows etc.) now bigger than every other category, except the iPhone, combined

Basically 76% of the sales are iPhones and Services

(millions)

iPhone $209,586

Mac $33,708

iPad $28,023

Wearables, Home and Accessories $35,686

Services $109,158

Total $416,161

Next 5 years or so (or even less) both the iPad and the Wearables, Home and Accessories category will overtake the sales of Macs.

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j1elo ◴[31 Oct 25 20:35 UTC] No.45776423[source]▶
I really don't get how people do research work (like finding good flight tickets, or comparing hotels to stay in for a trip) without a computer. I really cannot stand seeing websites in a small screen without the ability to quickly open 4 browser windows with 4 tabs each for different combinations of dates, for example.
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moduspol ◴[31 Oct 25 20:57 UTC] No.45776607[source]▶
I have literally watched my in-laws plan and book a vacation from their smartphones. From their house, where they also have computers.

They're quite different from my side of the family, but the biggest thing is that they've never been big planners. Everything is by the seat of their pants. If you're like that, you're probably OK with taking one of the first three SEO-optimized search results and making it work.

Meanwhile, I'm not booking anything until I have a proposed itinerary.

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jdross ◴[31 Oct 25 21:08 UTC] No.45776722[source]▶
How often do you get a meaningfully better result than google.com/flights? Outside of booking with points, it's all basically the same thing and I can book on google on my phone in under a minute
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leptons ◴[31 Oct 25 23:07 UTC] No.45777706[source]▶
I hope you don't think booking travel ends with the flights. There's so much more to getting the most out of a trip than the flight, or the hotel.
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embedding-shape ◴[01 Nov 25 00:15 UTC] No.45778110[source]▶
That's the thing for us whose life is mostly "by the seat of their pants", there really isn't. You book the tickets, you go there, see what you feel like doing, do those things, and go home. Done that for all my travels more or less, never felt like I missed anything and had a blast most of the times.

I still do everything important on a computer and wouldn't book the flight on a smartphone, but that probably says more about my age than anything else.

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1. shermantanktop ◴[01 Nov 25 06:39 UTC] No.45779680[source]▶
I admire your style, and envy it, at least a little.

But I couldn’t do it, especially with the presence of which I’ll call “expectations of planning” in my immediate circle. Some people want the best possible experience and can’t be confident they aren’t missing out unless they have done the research.

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2. embedding-shape ◴[01 Nov 25 11:08 UTC] No.45780774[source]▶
> especially with the presence of which I’ll call “expectations of planning” in my immediate circle

Yeah, when traveling with others who do like/need to plan I'll go with their plans and flow unless it gets too boring. When traveling with my wife I'll even stick around even if I'm bored.

> Some people want the best possible experience

I mean, I do too! :) Just different methods of getting there.

> can’t be confident they aren’t missing out unless they have done the research

Man, just daily life must be tough if they're feeling FOMO from such low stakes situations, I couldn't handle that myself :/

3. koolba ◴[01 Nov 25 12:21 UTC] No.45781084[source]▶
No level of planning can match the raw joy of spontaneously enjoying something with like minded friends.

> Some people want the best possible experience and can’t be confident they aren’t missing out unless they have done the research.

The majority of such people perform what I call “checkbox vacationing”. It’s not about actually enjoying any particular thing, it’s just about checking the boxes of whatever some online list says is the current “best XYZ”.