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Apple could just have bought the music industry when they launched iTunes. The value, and in some cases the profit, of tech companies are weird outliers in the business world.

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Wait, really? I had to look that up. From their share price chart, get AAPL as being ~0.33/share then vs ~133 now and market cap $2.2T, which backs out to ~$5-6 billion in mid-2001.

I can't easily find the valuation of Sony BMG or EMI at the time.

I'm now trying to picture what an Apple handgun would look like

They would change the magazine design every few years and it would only fire Apple ammunition.

Changed the charging cable once, after 9 years. People still bring that up. Lightning has been around for 9 years already.

(Sorry if the changed magasine design was about something else.)

Incorrect: They also changed the 30pin standard while keeping it 30pin. Many people found that they could not charge or play music with their new iDevice when plugging it in to a factory-wired (and non-removable) 30pin cable in their car.

There have also been multiple iOS updates that block 3rd party chargers through software even though those chargers use the lightning connector.

Even if detachable magazines were legal (which it now looks like they soon will not be, with the possible exception of grip magazines in pistols), an Apple firearm won't include one. If the gun ever jams you have to take it to a Genius Bar to get it unjammed. Because it features Touch ID, it will be the only firearm to comply with Biden's proposed smart gun requirement at the time the requirement passes, and thus the only legal gun in America until other manufacturers follow suit -- but a gunOS mandatory security update causes the gun to squirt water instead of firing ammunition.

I would be a big fan of planned obsolescence for guns along with proprietary, not easily available ammo, actually.

Unfortunately ammo is easy to make. Many people make their own to varying degrees of complexity.

https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/

An iGun will only fire specially made square iBullets with DRM chips

Well, it can only shoot at other iGun owner, so that kinda limits it’s usefulness.

> square bullets

But only at the Turks!

Thanks - I had a good Puckle at that one.

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