Uncertainty and the Herd - MOSK: 05.30.2025

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	This is MacOS Ken.
0:08.8	Thoughts on uncertainty and heard mentality.
0:12.0	Apple pumps up developers ahead of WWDC
0:14.6	and news around Apple retail.
0:18.2	It is Friday the 30th of May 2025. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:27.4	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by people like you. Patrons through Patreon.
0:36.1	Find out more and then your support at patreon.com slash
0:41.7	macOS can.
0:46.2	Uncertainty is not boating well for Apple shares.
0:49.9	I mean, it's really not boating well for anything,
0:52.3	but we're here to talk about Apple, so let's do that.
0:56.2	It could be argued that some of the uncertainty currently facing Apple was exacerbated by Apple.
1:02.8	When it became obvious that courts and regulators were souring on the way Apple did business in the app store,
1:10.3	not letting developers steer customers to their own
1:12.8	site, not allowing third-party payment solutions, stuff like that. When it became obvious that
1:18.9	courts and regulators were souring on the way Apple did business in the app store, Apple could have
1:25.4	moved more proactively in the direction telegraphed by courts and regulators.
1:30.4	Now personally, I disagree with the courts and regulators. I remember how few apps there were for
1:36.2	smartphones before the app store. How opaque the system was for getting apps onto those phones,
1:41.9	how much the apps cost, how little of that cost was
1:45.6	actually paid to developers. Before iPhone, there was practically no app ecosystem. It only took
1:53.8	Apple 70-something days to sell the first million iPhones, and that was without an app store. Unlike
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