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I think it might be a mistake to assume that the iPhone is even aiming for ipod-like market share. Soon the smartphone market will virtually disappear and repla

by netcan 17y ago

I think it might be a mistake to assume that the iPhone is even aiming for ipod-like market share. Soon the smartphone market will virtually disappear and replaced by the phone market. Do we really think that Apple will own the lion's share of the phone market? I think a mac-like strategy is more likely: Apple take a big, juicy, high margin chunk of exactly the piece of the market they want. All the other phones will need some sort of OS too.

mechanical_fish 17y ago
All the other phones will need some sort of OS too. Absolutely. And from what little I've seen of how the Android market has played out so far, this might as well be Google's official mission statement. But this is what the original article is about. "The people who aren't well-served by Apple" is a large market, and is always likely to be a viable market. But it is a terribly fragmented market, and it has an ephemeral definition to boot.