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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
We're talking about which platform is, and will be, used by most people. Try to keep up.
Figures in the second image, and possibly the first, are for the US. Worldwide figures have iOS slightly higher at 61%. Even if you're too programmed to accept the numbers, the trend is clear.
Apple's policy of trying to ream consumers with inflated prices and substandard products means it will always end up confining its market share to hardcore idiot fanboys. |
You keep labeling me that - does that help your point? You calling Kindle a tablet - do you even believe that yourself? The one they just released? From over here in the real world, I can assure you that the business community is beginning to integrate the iPad. That will open a huge market for them, as it did for MS 20 years ago (c 1993). They will do very well for a while. Let's look at:
Market Cap
Cash
Profit
Growth
In which of these metrics can you name a me a major player that has exceeded Apple? Or a minor player? You do know that those metrics are important to business - right?
So the largest market cap, with the largest cash on hand, growing sales and profit consistently and rapidly, invents a product which is then copied by others and in some ways optimized for their communities, usually at a much lower GP. In the context of the growth that follows, the many companies that release products in that space manage to make a dent in the inventors market share by catering to their respective niches. How the hell does that take away from the story?
The facts are clear. Apple has competitors. None of them have near the revenue or profit or growth or had the innovation while Jobs was around. As I've said several times, they will not hold that position, but they won't lose it anytime soon.