For being the richest company ever with $243 billion in cash, Apple sure cuts corners in the stingiest ways. The hardware giant became the first trillion-dollar company week. Yet it\u2019s tough to reconcile Apple earning $11 billion in profit per quarter with it still screwing us over on cords an\u2026<\/b>
\nFor being the richest company ever with $243 billion in cash, Apple sure cuts corners in the stingiest ways. The hardware giant became the first trillion-dollar company week. Yet it\u2019s tough to reconcile Apple earning $11 billion in profit per quarter with it still screwing us over on cords and keyboards. The \u201cit just works\u201d philosophy has slipped through the cracks of the money-printing machine. It\u2019s not that Apple couldn\u2019t afford to fix the problems, it\u2019s just ensnared in hubris such that it doesn\u2019t see them as important.
We still turn to Apple because it makes the best core products. But the edges of the customer experience have frayed like the wires of a Lightning cable. The key to Apple\u2019s fortune is obviously selling high margin iPhones, not these ways it nickels and dimes us. But the company has an opportunity to raise its standards after this milestone, and win back the faith that could push it to a $2 trillion market cap.
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