The shareholders expect more profits. So no, the only way is ads and fees on the best sellers.
If they can make 50B from ads in the iPhone in 12 months why invent a new device that will make pennies.
Sorry folks, the math is brutal for the big corps. They cannot pivot and make cool things, the market demands to be milked until they bleed.
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Pennies? Their devices have famously high margins.