Apple's biggest income growth is services like iCloud. There is no way they are going to give up that money spigot. Decentralization would mean losing out on that sweet sweet service profit. Especially as other companies undercut them
I was out to dinner with a table of normies, my wife's friends, last year. Ten people, I asked who pays monthly for iCloud, nine hands go up.
It easy to see why. When you first open your new iPhone it backs up to iCloud, you get 5GB free and the first backup takes ~4.5GB. Now it will remind you endlessly that your iCloud is nearly full. It's only £0.99 a month to make them shut up...
Hmm good point. I did open a new iPhone last month and that was my experience but looking at it now I think the big factor was 3GB of WhatsApp data I imported from Android!
This ignores Apple's leverage. What do you think happens to the political party responsible for driving the most popular smartphone manufacturer out of the country?
