Saturday, March 24, 2018

Apple businesses and ecosystem

  • Consumer Electronics (Hardware): design, develop, and manufacture Phones (iPhone), Computers (Mac), Tablets (iPad), TV strwaming devices (Apple TV), Smart Watch (Apple Watch) and also Accessories for them. And also makes it own SoC (System-on-chip) and GPU. Active user base of 1.3 Billion people.

  • Software: Operating System and Application Softwares that run on them. OS: iOS, macOS, WatchOS, and tvOS. Apps: FaceTime with 800+ Million users, iMessages with over 300 Billion messages sent.

  • Services: First and Third party subscription services: Apple Music (38 Million paying subscribers) and Apple Pay (86 Million users) are example of first party. And Third party is competitor's paying subscription services which they get a cut if the revenue. Now have 220 Million paying subscribers all together.

  • Retail: 502 stores with Apple's Hardware products, and other merchandise and whatnot made by the company. Apple.com online site.

These all makes for an unmatched ecosystem and many envied largely profitable businesses owned by Apple.



Submitted March 24, 2018 at 09:16PM by snack-fu-bling https://ift.tt/2pCB31n

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