Nintendo and iOS pirating

[LurkerJ]

bdbdbd said:

LurkerJ said:

Well, the statement is very clear. Connected to an Apple server during the 90 days that preceded the statement. What's their to spin? Yes, it USUALLY doesn't mean that these devices are active on the daily basis but we are talking about mostly iPhones here, can anyone live without checking their phone every 5 minutes these days?  How do other companies report their active userbases? I think it's great Apple defined what "Active" means, you don't always get a definition.

I also don't understand why they would spin to the degree you are implying they had, which again, they didn't, their statement is very clear and sounds spin-free to me. Active or not, Apple makes most 90% or more of its porfits the moment they sell you the device. It doesn't matter if you don't use it after that. Unlike other OS'es that benefit from an active userbase to constantly mine their data and sell it to advertisers.

If I buy myself a new device, I don't need the old one. Granted, I can always sell or give the old one away, but considering only the two newest Iphone models seem to be of interest, and older than that, people do not seem to be interested getting one even for free (not around here, at least).

There's always a spin because it's corporate message. Either you want to make a statement for the investors (of the company) or you want to make your market look bigger for the software developers (or publishers). But if that's the case that Apple makes 90% of it's profits on hardware sales, I can understand the need for the spin, as the app store isn't that lucrative market in the end. Then again, it does make perfect sense.

They surly said 90 days, because if they said 60 they wouldn't have been able to shout ONE BILLION. "billion" is a headline maker. I am just saying, the statement in itself, is pretty cut and dried. 

Just checked, and my "90%" was accurate when they made that "one billion active Apple devices" statement. However, months ago, things started to change:

 

 

Services growth is due to Apple Pay exploding in popularity (and iPhone sales typically falls before the new iPhone), every other category includes only hardware though. The Watch/iPod/Accessories are included in "other".