"If judged on the question of creation and satisfaction of the customer — i.e. the ultimate purpose of the firm — the App Store and Services in general has satisfied 1.4 billion people. That they are spending over $1.3 trillion and doubling in 4 years is nothing short of astonishing."

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"The genius of SenseOS is that Apple already has the only advantage that matters: people living inside its ecosystem. And unlike any startup, Apple can deploy a unified, privacy-first, latency-free interface across 2 billion devices."

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"Our Key First Look Data reflects outsized y/y iPhone sales growth (+20% y/y) for the second month in a row, due to continued panic buying ahead of tariff- related price pricing concerns."  — Analyst John Vinh

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"What jumps out to me is that Apple has a more advanced cloud-based LLM that is rumored to be 150 billion parameters. This would be comparable to ChatGPT-4o, which is impressive and would mark about a 50x increase in model size."

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