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description: "The essence of Apple's ecosystem moat is systemic lock-in: the extremely high switching costs brought by over 2.2 billion devices, combined with deep integration of iMessage, iCloud, payments, and watches, result in extremely high user loyalty, allowing the services business to continuously monetize with high gross margins.A short-term lag in AI may not necessarily be bad news; continue to observe."
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# The essence of Apple's ecosystem moat is systemic …


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