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You keep labeling me that - does that help your point? You calling Kindle a tablet - do you even believe that yourself?
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I'm not labeling you anything. I'm talking about Apple customers. And if you think I drew that chart myself and you genuinely don't even know what a
Kindle Fire is, why are you even trying to have this discussion?
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From over here in the real world, I can assure you that the business community is beginning to integrate the iPad.
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That's funny, because in an earlier post you said: "Business has not opened up to Apple products". Of course, in another post you were also claiming stats that don't happen fit your delusions are "flat wrong". All you are repeating is your
opinion, based on zilch, while refusing to even listen to actual facts and reality.
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That will open a huge market for them, as it did for MS 20 years ago (c 1993).
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So lemme get this straight. You're at least aware that Microsoft has the business market by the balls, and has for decades, with it's Windows and Office software, but you somehow believe that businesses are now going to flock to Apple? What, so they can watch Youtube and download iTunes at their desks?
If anything other than Android (which you seem to be flatly unable to accept is
already the dominant mobile platform) is going to clean up in the business market, it will be Windows, not iOS.
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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.
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Market cap. Market cap. Blah blah blah. See
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Within a few years of its inception Apple had gone from zero to hundreds of millions in sales. In 1980, with numerous competing computer systems around, Apple famously had the largest IPO since Ford.
At that time you'd have no doubt been jizzing in your pants about how Apple was going to dominate computing for the next decade or two. And why not, everyone else was. Of course, within a few years they had been wiped out by IBM and Microsoft.
That process is already happening again, hence Apple's desperate lawsuits, which they also resorted to in the 80s while they were spinning down the toilet.
I'm now going to argue with a Scientologist; they're far less programmed and far more open to reason and reality.